Ic Design Research Engineer

Imperial College London and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) are seeking Research Engineers to join the exciting new Imperial/NTU CYber Protection for HEalthcaRe (IN-CYPHER) research programme on the cybersecurity of connected medical devices and systems. The research programme represents a collaboration between the United Kingdom and Singapore and will be based at the newly established Imperial Global Singapore (IGS).

We are particularly looking for **IC Design Research Engineers**with the following backgrounds:

- Digital IC Design
- Analog IC Design

As an IC Design Research Engineer, you will design and innovate secure circuits and systems for next-generation low-power IoMT devices and sensors, focusing on hardware security, and smart computing and connectivity platforms.

IN-CYPHER is comprised of four interacting themes, spanning the design of intelligent medical devices through to the use of their data in informing personalised healthcare. Allied to other programmes in Singapore and the UK, it represents a unique opportunity to be at the forefront of research and development into securing the vital information that flows between implantable, wearable and connected medical devices, including those currently in use, and those yet to be developed. The four themes of IN-CYPHER are:
Theme 1 Protecting Implantable Devices

Implantable and wearable medical devices - including both sensors and active devices - operate under strong design constraints. Our research in this area seeks to embed secure design from first principles, and at the most fundamental levels (silicon or substrate) of device design; we also recognise the need to consider the challenge of post-quantum cryptographically secure techniques in the immediate future.

Theme 2 Securing Connected Wearables & Healthcare Systems

Increasingly, medical devices incorporate some form of connectivity, and many of these devices are necessarily designed to be in use for between one and two decades. There is a constant risk of exploit of zero-day vulnerabilities, and therefore a requirement to detect breaches in extremely intricate complex networks and data flow pipelines. We seek solutions to this challenge that embed security at hardware level.

Theme 3 Algorithms for Privacy, Security and Provenance

To control active medical devices - such as closed-loop drug-delivery systems - information moves from sensors and devices along different communications channels; data provenance and integrity are important. Moreover, the use of data-driven algorithms potentially exposes protected patient characteristics, presenting specific technical challenges not only within operational use, but also to product development cycles.

Theme 4 Clinical Innovation & Translation

One area of personalised medicine resides in the use of data for closed-loop drug delivery, including insulin delivery. With key researchers and teams from both Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, we seek to develop threat models that are suitable for emerging approaches to personalised medicine, and particularly where data-driven techniques might offer improvements to patient outcomes.

Given the span of our activities, we are seeking motivated research engineers to join the IN-CYPHER programme. Unique in its scope, we are developing technologies that span embedded systems, and the protocols used to control and communicate sensitive patient information, all the way up to interventional devices and systems for personalised healthcare.

**Key Responsibilities**

Main Duties
- Proactively support the research and development activities of Research Fellows
- Identify and develop techniques, paradigms, algorithms and frameworks to solve electrical engineering problems
- Maintain highly organised and accurate record of work
- Maintain and promote the highest standards of scientific integrity
- Actively participate in all aspects of the research programme of IN-CYPHER
- Report activities both internally and externally
- Present findings to colleagues and at national/international conferences
- Proactively support publications in high quality refereed journals and conferences
- Translate research prototypes to robust and usable artefacts, possibly by collaborating with scientific, clinical and translation partners
- Attend relevant workshops as necessary
- Develop contacts and appropriate collaborations within IGS, Imperial, NTU and the wider community
- Promote the positive reputation of IGS and the IN-CYPHER Programme
- Participate in group research meetings and internal seminars
- Contribute to the smooth running of IN-CYPHER and other programmes under IGS
- Assist in the supervision of undergraduate interns, postgraduate research students and research assistants as required
- Comply with IGS’ and CREATE practices and to attend courses on safety when appropriate
- Any other duties as may be deemed reasonable by scientific and operations managers of IGS, IN-C