Embedded 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 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 :

• Develop new approaches and countermeasures for emerging threats to embedded systems
• Help develop 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
• Contribute creative and innovative ideas to help shape internal research
• Track, adapt, and apply academic and industry advances in embedded security analysis and protection techniques to secure our sponsors’ systems
• Collaborate with academic partners to improve embedded security education at our nation’s universities and high schools

Basic Qualifications :

• Typically requires less than 1 year of related experience with a related Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• Must be capable of obtaining and maintaining a DoD Secret security clearance
• Experience with developing and analyzing hardware, embedded, and / or IoT systems
• Experience with programming in languages such as Python, Java, C++, or C
• Effective oral and written communication skills
• This position requires a minimum of 4 days a week on-site

Preferred Qualifications :

• BS, MS, or PhD degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or similar field and / or 2+ years of related experience
• Experience with one or more of the following technical areas :
• Signal and / or image processing; machine learning
• Experience with board- and component-level instrumentation and measurement (e.g., capturing digital and analog signals via mixed-domain oscilloscopes)
• Software-defined radio usage; wireless and / or network communications
• Basic knowledge of common hardware components, packaging, and board-level integration
• Basic technical understanding of circuits and PCB layout designs
• Basic knowledge of common cryptographic algorithms and protocols, implementation attacks (i.e., side-channel and fault injection)
• Basic knowledge of modern binary exploitation techniques and countermeasures, fuzzing, symbolic analysis
• Strong interest in and / or experience with one or more embedded security topics including but not limited to :
• 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)
• Hardware security implementation analysis and exploitation (cryptography, side-channel analysis, and / or fault injection)
• Invasive and semi-invasive attacks (and protection techniques) on integrated circuits (IC decapsulation, laser fault injection, photo emission analysis, thermal laser stimulation)

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 : Hybrid

Hybrid

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