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Department Summary:

MITRE’s Electronic Systems Development and Embedded Security department is seeking to hire talented and creative engineers with a focus on hardware security for embedded systems to support advanced research and development projects of national significance.

Qualified candidates will join a team of technical experts in embedded system security. This multi-disciplinary team performs hands-on research and analysis and develops proof-of-concept prototypes to demonstrate and advance the state-of-the-art in embedded security. Our diverse set of sponsors and research objectives provide a wide variety of interesting work opportunities.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Engineers in this role will develop and apply their technical expertise to:

• Research and develop new approaches and countermeasures for emerging threats to embedded systems

• Design and build prototypes (hardware and software) to demonstrate advanced capabilities

• Perform hands-on security assessments of embedded systems

• Develop software for interfacing with and controlling lab equipment for data collection, measurement, and analysis

• Shape creative and innovative ideas through internal research programs to advance the state-of-the art in embedded security

• Track, adapt, and apply academic and industry advances in embedded security analysis and protection techniques to secure our sponsors’ systems

• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, while leading tasks and/or teams of engineers

• Collaborate with academic partners to improve embedded security education at our nation’s universities and high schools

Basic Qualifications:

• Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 3 years’ experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.

• Applicants selected for this position will be subject to a US government security investigation and must be able to obtain a Department of Defense SECRET clearance, which requires US citizenship

• Experience analyzing microelectronics and hardware systems for susceptibility to implementation attacks, such as side-channel analysis and fault induction

• Experience with programming in languages such as Python, C/C++, or Rust for PCs and embedded systems

• Effective oral and written communication skills

• This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site

Preferred Qualifications:

• MS, or PhD degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or similar field and/or 8+ years of related experience

• Experience leading teams developing or evaluating secure embedded systems

• Experience in one or more of the following embedded system security topics:

• Application of side-channel analysis and/or fault injection to black-box systems

• Analysis of cryptographic algorithms, protocols, and systems for implementation attack threats

• Invasive and semi-invasive attacks (and protection techniques) on integrated circuits (e.g., laser fault injection, photon emission analysis, thermal laser stimulation)

• Microarchitectural and/or cyber-enabled implementation attacks (and protection techniques) on computer systems (e.g., Rowhammer, Spectre/Meltdown)

• Development and analysis of implementation attack countermeasures

• Experience with one or more of the following technical areas:

• FPGA and/or system-on-chip development

• High performance and/or distributed computing; data analytics

• Signal and/or image processing

• Machine learning of time-series data

• Software-defined radio usage; wireless and/or network communications

• Experience with board- and component-level instrumentation and measurement (e.g., capturing digital and analog signals via mixed-domain oscilloscopes)

• Tear down, reverse engineering, and exploitation techniques for embedded systems (hardware interface capture and probing, RF and protocol analysis, board-level RE and modifications, and IoT penetration testing)

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

None

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

Secret

Salary compensation range and midpoint:

$150,500 - $188,000 - $225,500 Annual

Work Location Type:

Hybrid

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