Associate Embedded Security Engineer

MITRE is a not-for-profit corporation committed to tackling the nation's toughest challenges, and they are seeking an Associate Embedded Security Engineer to help address complex embedded systems security issues. In this role, you will collaborate with experts, develop innovative solutions, and contribute to national security missions.

What you'll do:

• 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

What they're looking for:

• Typically requires less than 1 year of related experience with a related Bachelor's degree, or equivalent combination of related education and work experience
• BS degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or similar field
• Must be US citizen 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, Rust, Java, C++, or C
• Effective oral and written communication skills
• This position requires a minimum of 4 days a week on-site
• 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