Antwerp Space is a leading Belgian space engineering company and an industrial player well-recognized by the European Space Agency and the European Commission. Antwerp Space has an established presence in the European space market and in several cases is taking the lead in technically complex space projects, supported by a consortium of partners from all over Europe.
The company employs highly skilled engineers and technicians from all over the world, the majority of whom hold an engineering degree, with strong expertise in the areas of digital signal processing, hardware and software design, as well as in project management and technical leadership.
Antwerp Space is part of the OHB SE group, one of Europe’s success stories in the field of contemporary space. Today it can call itself the third largest space group in Europe.
The OHB SE group has been growing at a steady pace over the last three decades and its footprint in Europe has continuously expanded. Nowadays, there are subsidiaries in Austria, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Luxembourg, Greece, the Czech Republic and Belgium. Despite its size, OHB SE is still a family business, run by the Fuchs family.
We are looking for a Security Architect specialized in hardware and embedded security to help design and secure advanced electronic systems. The position requires a solid understanding of hardware-level threats and protections, going beyond traditional IT cybersecurity to address physical attacks, tamper resistance, and secure hardware integration.
You’ll be reporting to the System Engineering team lead, project teams, and collaborating with colleagues from the operational department.
In this role you will:
- contribute to the design, security analysis, and accreditation of hardware security architectures, including secure processing elements, root-of-trust components, and anti-tamper protections.
- You will work at the system level, identifying security requirements and translating them into concrete architectural solutions and ensuring that hardware implementations meet the required security assurance levels.
- You will collaborate closely with system architects, hardware designers, software teams, and security authorities to ensure that security is built into the system architecture from the earliest design stages through validation and accreditation.
The ideal candidate combines system-level thinking with deep understanding of hardware security mechanisms and is comfortable working in multidisciplinary engineering environments.
- Eligible for an EU security clearance (EU citizen, or eligible for citizenship and living in the EU for at least 10 years.
- Candidates currently living outside Belgium will only be considered if they are willing to relocate to Belgium before the start of their contract. Relocation is a prerequisite for employment.
- Fluency in spoken and written English. Knowledge of Dutch and French is an asset.
- Master’s degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a closely related field.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in hardware or embedded system security engineering.
- Demonstrated experience with hardware security mechanisms such as secure boot, cryptographic key storage, hardware roots of trust, or trusted execution environments.
- Experience performing security architecture analysis or threat modelling for embedded or hardware systems.
- Understanding of anti-tamper and hardware attack mitigation techniques.
- Experience contributing to security assurance, certification, or accreditation activities.
- Strong understanding of hardware security architectures, including roots of trust, secure elements, hardware security modules (HSM), and trusted execution environments.
- Experience with anti-tamper and tamper-resistant design techniques.
- Knowledge of hardware attack vectors, including for example:
- Side-channel attacks
- Fault injection
- Reverse engineering
- Hardware probing and debugging attacks
- Understanding secure boot mechanisms, key management, and secure device identity.
- Familiarity with information leakage through electromagnetic or other unintended emissions, including TEMPEST / EMSEC considerations.
- Experience performing security threat analysis and risk assessments for embedded or hardware systems.
- Familiarity with ASIC design is a benefit.
- Understanding of system partitioning and security isolation mechanisms.
- Experience working with hardware/software co-design in secure systems.
- Familiarity with security certification or accreditation frameworks (e.g., Common Criteria, SESIP, FIPS 140-3, or equivalent).
- Experience working in high-assurance environments such as aerospace, defense, telecommunications, or semiconductor systems.
- Willingness to travel.
- Ability to communicate complex security concepts clearly to engineering teams and non-specialist stakeholders.
- Ability to work in a multidisciplinary engineering environment involving hardware, firmware, software, and system engineering teams.
- Excellent communication skills with a high degree of flexibility.
- Team player who can work effectively both independently and in large projects.
- A multicultural environment. You’ll be working in an international environment with colleagues from all over the world.
- A strong corporate culture. Our company is based on strong values: respect, trust, personal development and well-being.
- Professional development. You’ll get the chance to learn, to share your expertise, to develop your skills and contribute to high-level, international projects in a high-tech environment.
- Salary package. A very attractive salary package including numerous fringe benefits. The main job location is Antwerpen (Hoboken) - Belgium, though, short-term missions abroad are part of this challenging job environment.
At Antwerp Space we treasure our human capital. From the moment you get on board until retirement, we will be at your side to make sure you feel at home and you get the chance to travel all the way through Antwerp Space, developing yourself and growing together.
As a company with a passion for innovation, we want to create a dynamic, open and enriching environment for people, where people are passionate about their work and exchange ideas & expertise.
Moreover, we understand the need for a healthy working environment and we focus on the employee’s well-being, offering amongst others fruit@work, yoga, ergonomic advice, and many other initiatives. We also focus on a good work-life balance, offering flexible working hours and additional holidays. Each year a number of events are organized to emphasize that it is important to have fun, relax and create a good team spirit.
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