Hardware Hacker

Schneider Electric creates connected technologies that reshape industries, transform cities and enrich lives.Our 135,000+ employees thrive in more than 100 countries.

From the simplest of switches to complex operational systems, our technology, software and services improve the way our customers manage and automate their operations.

Help us deliver solutions that ensure Life Is On everywhere, for everyone and at every moment.

The Role: As a Hardware Hacker, you will be responsible for performing hardware and embedded penetration testing, analyzing device security architectures, and developing proof of concept exploits.

Job Description


* Perform hardware security testing on embedded systems, IoT devices, and electronics.


* Perform hardware penetration testing on OT and IoT devices such as industrial controllers, gateways, and embedded systems...etc


* Identify and analyze hardware interfaces including UART, JTAG, SWD, SPI, I²C, CAN, and LIN.


* Conduct firmware extraction, dumping, and analysis using hardware debug probes and specialized tools.


* Perform firmware reverse engineering using tools such as Ghidra or IDA to analyze bootloaders, RTOS components, and embedded applications.


* Carry out PCB exploration, trace analysis, and bus sniffing to understand device architecture and identify potential attack surfaces.


* Conduct protocol analysis and fuzzing across interfaces such as CAN, Modbus, BLE, Wi-Fi, MQTT, CoAP, BacNet and other embedded communication protocols.


* Evaluate wireless and RF communication channels including Bluetooth/BLE, Zigbee, and proprietary protocols.


* Develop proof-of-concept exploits for identified vulnerabilities and demonstrate attack scenarios.


* Contribute to security research, tool development, and internal knowledge sharing related to embedded and hardware security.

Who Are We

The Schneider Electric Global Security Lab (GSL) performs testing to ensure that we deliver more secure products to our customers.

Our Global Security Labs in Grenoble, France; Shanghai, China; Andover USA and Bangalore, India provide Code Scanning services and Penetration Testing services.

Schneider Electric's Global Security Lab is accredited by CREST for pen-test.

Requirements


* 3 + years of experience in hardware security, embedded security, or device penetration testing.


* Strong understanding of embedded architectures, microcontrollers, and hardware debugging techniques.


* Hands-on experience working with hardware analysis tools such as JTAGulator, Bus Pirate, Tigard, OpenOCD, EasyJTAG, CAN tools, HackRF, Ubertooth, Macobox or similar.


* Experience identifying and interacting with hardware interfaces such as UART, SPI, I²C, JTAG, SWD, CAN, and other debugging interfaces.


* Experience performing firmware extraction, reverse engineering, and binary analysis.


* Familiarity with embedded operating systems, bootloaders, and low-level debugging.


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