Trusted Microelectronics Research & Design Engineer - GTRI - CIPHER - Open Rank

Trusted Microelectronics Research & Design Engineer - GTRI - CIPHER - Open Rank

ID : 499866

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Type : Researchers

Location : Atlanta, GA

Categories : Cybersecurity

Overview :

The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is the nonprofit, applied research division of the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech).

Founded in 1934, GTRI has grown to more than 2,900 employees, supporting eight laboratories in over 20 locations around the country and performing more than $940 million of problem-solving research annually for government and industry.

Project / Unit Description

The GTRI Hardware Security and Trust (HST) Division researches microelectronic applications, CAD tools, architectures, and materials to evaluate the security, trust, and reliability of microelectronic devices and the critical systems which rely upon them.

Job Purpose

Microelectronics expert to research and contribute to the design, synthesis, characterization, packaging, testing, reliability, security, and trustworthiness of nano-fabricated microelectronic semiconductor devices.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and execute experiments, or create custom simulations to determine physical parameters / properties and behaviors of microelectronic semiconductor devices.
• Design firmware / software with advanced non-standard microelectronic design EDA tools.
• Design advanced algorithms covering formal verification, graph analysis, data analysis, clustering, and more.
• Utilize advanced microelectronics laboratory equipment to support design, analysis, and verification tasks.
• Develop and maintain expertise in a combination of HDL languages.
• Contribute multiple sections of technical reports and presentations.
• Contribute to white papers and competitive proposals.
• Present research and progress to customers or at working groups.

Additional Responsibilities

• Research methodologies using novel combinations of tools to implement security enhancements.
• Utilize analysis techniques to identify and characterize security and trust concerns of existing designs.
• Execute experiments to characterize physical parameters, properties, and behaviors of microelectronic semiconductor devices.

Required Minimum Qualifications

• Strong understanding of embedded systems, hardware design, digital logic design, and various microelectronic architectures.
• Competency designing hardware leveraging at least one industry-standard HDL language.
• Experience working with at least one major FPGA / ASIC vendor design tool suite.

Preferred Qualifications

• Active Top Secret Clearance.
• FPGA / ASIC design experience with common hardware interfaces.
• Experience performing verification of hardware designs leveraging industry-standard tools.
• Experience with advanced verification techniques.
• Experience with hardware fault analysis and mitigation methods.
• Experience with a high-level scripting language.
• Hands-on experience with hardware testing and troubleshooting.
• Comfortable working in a Linux environment.

Travel Requirements