Cryptography Engineer

Stockholm - Sweden

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

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Job Summary

Meet Yubico: the creator of the most secure passkeys and leading provider of hardware authentication security keys. Our companys mission is to make secure login easy and available for everyone. Yubico was founded in 2007 by Stina and Jakob Ehrensvard and is public on Nasdaq Stockholm Main Market: YUBICO. Our customers include Fortune 500 companies hundreds of government agencies and millions of individuals in over 160 countries that rely on Yubico technology to secure access to computers online services and mobile apps. Our global customer base includes organizations of varying sizes from large corporations such as Google Amazon Microsoft and Hyatt to companies like Dyson. We are a global company with a strong company culture and employees located in over 14 countries. Yubicos headquarters are based in Stockholm Sweden and Santa Clara CA. Aligned with our mission to make the internet more secure for everyone Yubico donates YubiKeys to organizations helping at-risk individuals through our philanthropic initiative Secure it Forward.

At Yubico we offer:

Yubico Values: We work to ensure that our employees have an open space to have their voices amplified to create a workplace where everyone feels like they support of this our employees have created some pretty cool Employee Resource Groups that foster inclusion help build community and connection across Yubico. Additionally Yubico donates YubiKeys to organizations in need all over the world (you can read more about our work here).

Social Connection: Relationships and connectedness matter and we love spending time with our team! Our virtual workspace keeps us connected day-to-day whether its through Yubico celebrating wins or our buzzing Slack communities. Check out ourLife at Yubico Page on LinkedIn and our awards here.

Tasks & Responsibilities:

Implement maintain and optimize cryptographic algorithms and primitives (e.g. encryption hashing digital signatures key exchanges) that run on YubiKeys and YubiHSMs
Follow research about classical algorithms (RSA ECC etc.) as well as Post Quantum Cryptography algorithms (ML-DSA ML-KEM etc.)

Basic Qualifications:

Ability to follow research in cryptography
Good understanding of classical (a)symmetric cryptography and PQC
Knowledge of side-channel attacks (EM power and timing analysis etc.) and mitigations against them
Disciplined approach in writing correct and highly efficient code

Preferred Qualifications:

Low level programming experience (C and Assembly)
Experience with embedded architectures
Ability to adapt and tune algorithms on resource constrained environments
Knowledge around fault injection attacks
Hands-on experience with lab equipment such as oscilloscopes logic analyzers and similar

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We are an equal opportunity employer we value diversity and uphold an inclusive environment where all people feel that they are equally respected and valued. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression age marital status religion national origin disability protected Veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Wed love to learn about what you can add to our diverse team.

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