Sr Systems Engineer; Smart Card​/Biometrics

Overview

Our client is the global leader in identity and security. Our mission is to create a safe and simple future where identity verification is indisputable, and only you can assert your identity. We are a distributed company leveraging the latest technologies to deliver world‑class products in the private and public sectors of finance, telecom, identity, security, retail, sports entertainment, commercial, government, and IoT.

We use a variety of technologies and approaches to deliver quality product and services to government agencies and technology companies. Our client is a made up of a group of 14,000 diverse people from different nationalities, speaking over 20 different languages. Together, our solutions impact the everyday lives of citizens and nations. In this ever‑changing world, protecting your identity is paramount.

Join the team that is ensuring one person - one identity.

Purpose of position

• Implement and document new and upgraded smartcard configurations to satisfy customer requirements, technical standards, and our client features
• Investigate and fix problems raised by Exton manufacturing and Chantilly personalization
• Support our client smartcard customers
• Write tools to explore, verify, and generate smart card data models

Tools used

• Our client's Common Personalization System (CPS), a GUI based configuration tool for smart card data, commands, access conditions, key management, file processing, and graphical programming
• PCOM, an APDU oriented script tools with cryptographic and HSM (Hardware Security Module) interfacing features
• C++ or other high level language for writing tools that interact with smart cards
• Cryptographic libraries like Crypto
  
  API Next Generation, OpenSSL
• English documentation and communication with US customers

Standards used

• ISO-7816
• PC/SC
• PIV (FIPS 201), NIST SP800-73-4, all features in depth
• Biometrics like ANSI 385, 378
• FIDO
• DESFIRE
• 125 KHZ proximity formats and other Physical Access Control System (PACS) technologies
• Java card applets
• Global platform smart card management, secure channels, diversified keys
• PKCS #11, #12

Technology used

• Cryptography (PKI, X509 AES, RSA, ECC, SHA-256, EC Diffie-Helman Key Exchange, PKI)
• Windows cryptography stack including CSP and Mini-driver
• Low level bit encoded commands and data with hexadecimal, non-symbolic values

Helpful experience

• Previous experience with a smart card manufacturer
• Previous experience with Federal Agency dealing with PIV, access control, or PKI

Ideal experience

• Familiar with our client's PIV applet initialization commands and responses, key management, and tools

• Minimum 5 years of experience in smart card
• Knowledge of cryptography (PKI)
• Hardware security modules
• C++ programming
• ISO 7616 and ISO 14443 international standards
• FIPS 201 and FIPS 140
• US citizenship