Senior Wireless & Security Engineer - Security Clearance Required

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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 embedded wireless systems and protocols to support advanced research and development projects of national significance.

Qualified candidates will join a team of technical experts in the implementation, analysis, and evaluation of wireless systems and their security.

This multi-disciplinary team performs hands-on research and analysis and develops proof-of-concept prototypes to demonstrate capabilities involving advanced communication network technologies.

Our diverse set of sponsors and research objectives provide a wide variety of interesting and impactful work opportunities.

Roles and Responsibilities :

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

• Research and develop new approaches and countermeasures for emerging security threats to wireless systems
• Design and build prototypes to demonstrate advanced capabilities
• Perform hands-on functional and security assessments of wireless systems and implementations
• Develop software for interfacing with and controlling lab equipment for data collection, measurement, and analysis
• Shape creative and innovative ideas through internal research and capability development programs to advance the state-of-the art in wireless 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 wireless and security education at our nation’s universities and high schools

Basic Qualifications :

Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 3 years and a Master’s degree;

or a PhD without experience in Electrical or Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or similar field; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.

• Must be US citizen capable of obtaining and maintaining a DoD Secret security clearance
• Experience with wireless communications, networking, and / or signal processing concepts / protocols
• Experience with software design in languages such as Python, C / C++, or Rust for PCs and embedded systems
• Experience with software development practices including design and code reviews, testing and regression, revision control, and user documentation
• Effective oral and written communication skills
• The position has an on-site requirement of 5 days a week

Preferred Qualifications :

• MS, or PhD degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or similar field and / or 5+ years of related experience
• Experience with one or more of the following technical areas :
• Implementation of networking and / or wireless communications protocol stack(s)
• Software-defined radio usage for wireless networking / communications
• LTE, 5G, or other radio access network configuration, function development, and / or evaluation
• Cryptography and security concepts such as key-agreement protocols, authentication, encryption, etc.
• Containerized application software design and container orchestration systems (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
• System security assessment : e.g., protocol reverse engineering, vulnerability discovery / assessment

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

Work Location Type : Onsite

Onsite

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