Senior Engineer II Product Security

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Job Description:

Microchips Product Security Office (PSO) is committed to managing and addressing security vulnerabilities in Microchip products providing customers with clear guidance on impact severity and mitigation and ensuring Microchips product portfolio meets evolving security standards and regulatory requirements.

We are looking for a Product Security Engineer to join the PSO team working across both PSIRT (Product Security Incident Response Team) operations and security standards/regulatory enablement.

You will be responsible for triaging and supporting resolution of product-related security vulnerabilities across Microchips semiconductor product portfolio along with development kits firmware software tools and reference addition you will contribute to security standards adoption and regulatory readiness activities that strengthen Microchips overall product security posture

IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL:

Vulnerability Management & PSIRT Operation

• Manage the day-to-day intake triage and case management of product vulnerability reports across hardware firmware and
• software products.
• Perform technical vulnerability assessments and apply structured severity scoring (CVSS) to determine impact and
• exploitability across Microchips product categories.
• Empower engineering teams in managing vulnerabilities in third-party components and open-source software integrated into
• Microchip products ensuring robust security posture.
• Drive remediation coordination with Business Unit engineering teams and security champions.
• Collaborate with external security researchers academia and coordination centers on vulnerability submissions and
• coordinated disclosure activities.
• Operate Microchips coordinated vulnerability disclosure channel
• Author security advisories bulletins and customer communications in standard publication formats (CSAF); coordinate
• multiparty disclosure with upstream and downstream vendors.
• Execute CVE assignment and support CNA operations under Microchips CVE Numbering Authority membership.
• Generate and manage PSIRT case tickets for validated vulnerabilities; maintain the case management system as the
• operational source of truth.
• Monitor internal and external sources (NVD vendor pre-notifications SBOM/VEX feeds Black Duck) to identify security issues
• affecting Microchip products.
• Run SBOM- and VEX-driven analysis of third-party and open-source components; correlate upstream advisories to affected
• products and communicate exploitability status.
• Manage incoming third-party vendor vulnerability pre-notifications and coordinate supplier response activities.
• Execute statutory incident reporting for actively exploited vulnerabilities under the EU Cyber Resilience Act

Security Standards & Regulatory Enablement

• Contribute to new regulations and standardization activities that impact product security including the EU Cyber Resilience Act
• (CRA) IEC 62443 ISO/SAE 21434 ETSI EN 303 645 and sector-specific security frameworks.
• Map product security standards requirements to Microchips development workflows and product architectures translating
• regulatory and standards obligations into practical engineering guidance.
• Support the development and maintenance of CRA readiness frameworks product classification guidance essential
• cybersecurity requirements mapping conformity assessment preparation and technical documentation templates.
• Define and develop best practices for secure development lifecycle compliance streamline processes and drive continuous
• improvement initiatives aligned to IECASPICE and ISO/SAE 21434.
• Track the evolving standards and regulatory landscape (new editions emerging frameworks sector-specific requirements) and
• communicate relevant updates to PSO leadership and BU security champions.
• Work cross-functionally with internal teams (engineering product management quality legal compliance) to ensure
• consistent standards interpretation and timely regulatory readiness.
• Draft standard responses to customer security questionnaires CRA requests SBOM requests and vulnerability statements for
• review by customer-facing teams.
• Coordinate with Quality (QMS integration) and Legal/Compliance (regulatory interpretation) to ensure product security
• evidence meets both standards and regulatory expectations.

This role operates within the PSO governance framework executing and providing feedback on processes and policies defined by PSOleadership.

Requirements/Qualifications:

EDUCATION (REQUIRED):
Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Electrical and Computer Engineering Computer Science Embedded Systems Cybersecurity or a closely related engineering field.

EXPERIENCE (REQUIRED):
7.5 years of experience in firmware/embedded software development product security engineering or vulnerability management withdemonstrable focus on security in embedded systems

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE SKILLS & ABILITIES:

• Experience in a PSIRT Security Operations or security incident response team environment.
• Embedded systems and firmware engineering experience with microcontroller/microprocessor platforms.
• Cryptography and hardware security hands-on experience with cryptographic algorithm integration hardware security
• module (HSM) drivers security abstraction layers secure key storage PUF (Physically Unclonable Function) or Trust Zone
• based isolation.
• Product security standards practical working knowledge of one or more: IEC 62443 ISO/SAE 21434 PSA Certified SESIP
• FIPS 140-3 Common Criteria ETSI EN 303 645 NIST Cybersecurity Framework
• Vulnerability assessment ability to analyze security vulnerabilities in embedded products assess exploitability and apply
• structured scoring methodologies (CVSS or equivalent).
• Secure development practices familiarity with secure coding standards (MISRA-C CERT C) static analysis and
• development lifecycle standards (IEC).
• Technical documentation ability to author clear technical security documentation compliance evidence vulnerability
• assessments and standards-aligned artifacts.
• Communication and collaboration strong written and verbal skills; ability to work cross-functionally with engineering product
• management quality legal and customer-facing teams.
• Ability to work independently taking ownership of security initiatives and improving processes within a defined governance
• framework.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• CNA operations experience (CVE assignment).
• SBOM/VEX program experience (CycloneDX SPDX Black Duck software composition analysis).
• Threat modeling familiarity (STRIDE MITRE ATT&CK EMB3D).
• Familiarity with EU Cyber Resilience Act RED Delegated Act NIS2 FDA premarket cybersecurity or UN R155/R156.
• Hands-on coordinated vulnerability disclosure experience working with researchers managing embargoes publishing
• advisories.
• Standards body participation or certification audit experience (IEC 62443 ISO 21434 Common Criteria PSA Certified FIPSevaluations).

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