Senior Embedded Security Engineer Security Clearance

Position: Senior Embedded Security Engineer with Security Clearance
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If this sounds like the choice you want to make, then choose MITRE - and make a difference with us. MITRE's Electronic Systems 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 and 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

Minimum 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 with relevant experience who can immediately contribute at this job step; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.

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

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

* Capable of obtaining and/or maintaining a DoD Secret security clearance

* Per the U.S. Government's eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance.
* This position is onsite

Preferred Qualifications:

* MS, or PhD degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or similar field and/or 5+ 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)
* Effective oral and written communication skills This…