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Embedded Systems Security Engineer At MITRE, your passion fuels work that impacts our nation and improves lives. This is where your skills strengthen national security, cybersecurity, health, transportation, and citizen services. We're a nonprofit engineering, applied research, and advanced technology organization working in the public interest. With objectivity and integrity at our core, we lead federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies - collaborating with industry and academia to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions that advance our nation's health, security, and prosperity. Our people tackle the toughest technical challenges, supported by competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence. Choose MITRE for a career with purpose - and help shape the future. 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 & Responsibilities:
  • Engineers in this role will develop and apply their technical expertise to: Research and develop new secure design approaches and countermeasures for emerging threats to embedded systems
  • Design and build prototypes (hardware and software) to demonstrate advanced capabilities
  • Analyze secure implementations, designs, and architectures to identify weak points for further analysis or hardening
  • Perform hands-on and whitepaper-level 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
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 with relevant experience who can immediately contribute at this job step; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
  • Experience with secure system modelling, design, implementation, and testExperience with hardware description languages such as Verilog, System Verilog, or VHDLExperience with FPGA prototype development
  • Experience with programming in languages such as Python, C/C++, or Rust for PCs and embedded systems
  • Experience analyzing microelectronics and hardware systems for susceptibility to implementation attacks, such as side-channel analysis, fault injection, laser voltage probing, photon emission microscopy, laser stimulation techniques, and/or microprobing and circuit edits
  • Familiarity with cryptographic protocols and algorithms
  • Familiarity with secure boot and root of trust architectures
  • Effective oral and written communication skills
  • Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Secret U.S Government issued 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 requires a minimum of 3 days per week on-site
Preferred Qualifications:
  • MS, or PhD degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or similar field and/or 8+ years of related experience
  • Experience leading teams developing or evaluating secure embedded systems
  • Strong problem-framing skills in ambiguous research environments
  • Experience in one or more of the following embedded system security topics: Development and analysis of implementation attack countermeasures
  • Analysis of cryptographic algorithms, protocols, and systems for implementation attack threats
Execution of invasive and semi-invasive attacks and associated protection techniques on integrated circuits such as side-channel analysis, fault injection, laser voltage probing, photon emission microscopy, etc. Experience with one or more of the following technical areas: ASIC design, implementation, and testExperience with board- and component-level instrumentation and measurement (e.g., capturing digital and analog signals via mixed-domain oscilloscopes)

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