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Co-op - Security Research Assistant

  • Waterloo, Ontario
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Job description

Our team has an immediate Co-op opening for a Research Assistant.
Responsibilities:

  • Participate to the research of security and privacy mechanisms in endpoint devices.
  • Participate to the proposing, designing and prototyping of innovative security and privacy solutions for Huawei Endpoint products.
  • Producing insights of technology development in both academia and industry.
  • Work closely with other research labs worldwide and product team to optimize the solution and deliver concrete impact to real products.

Job requirements

What you’ll bring to the team:

  • MSc or PhD student in Computer Science or Computer Engineering with focus on security and privacy aspects.
  • At least mastery of one of the following:
    • Cryptography-related concepts: symmetric-key cryptography (block ciphers, MAC, and authenticated encryption), public-key cryptography (digital signatures, encryption, and key establishment).
    • Advanced cryptography: Attribute-Based Encryption, (Fully) Homomorphic Encryption, Functional Encryption, or secure deduplication.
    • Privacy enhancement technologies that are widely used such as zero-knowledge proof, secure multiparty computation, threshold signature, etc.
    • Post-quantum cryptography.
    • Authentication and authorization protocols in web and on-premises solutions such as OpenID Connect, SAML 2.0, FIDO2, TOTP, OAuth 2.0, Kerberos, etc.
    • Other security and privacy related research directions for endpoint devices
  • Proven proficiency in at least one of the following programming languages: C++/C, Java, and Python.
  • Experience with machine learning and deep learning is an asset.

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