Embedded Security Intern - Electronics Prototype

MITRE is a nonprofit engineering, applied research, and advanced technology organization working in the public interest. The Embedded Security Intern - Electronics Prototype will support advanced research and development projects by developing embedded hardware and software prototypes, conducting security assessments, performing wireless protocol experiments, and contributing to FPGA, RF, and hardware/software integration work.

What you'll do:

• Assist in the development of 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
• Conduct experiments with commercial or customized wireless protocols
• Develop software for interfacing with and controlling lab equipment for data collection, measurement, and analysis
• Embedded software development
• Design and support in FPGA development
• Hardware/software integration and validation
• RF design and testing

What they're looking for:

• * Sustained excellence in academic performance
• * Must be a student enrolled full-time in an accredited degree-seeking program in Electrical/Computer Engineering, Computer Science or a related degree and continue to be enrolled full-time the semester following the internship
• * Experience with developing and analyzing hardware, embedded, and/or IoT systems
• * Experience with programming in languages such as Python, Java, C++, or C
• * Effective oral and written communication skills
• * Demonstrated interest in serving the public
• * EE/CE: Courses in the areas of Circuits, Digital Logic, Electronics, and Computer Architecture
• * CS: Courses in the areas of Algorithms, Discrete Mathematics, and Digital Logic
• * Highly Desired: Courses in FPGA design, reverse engineering (firmware and/or hardware), computer security concepts, wireless communications, and/or embedded systems
• Experience applying AI to reverse engineering tasks and/or embedded systems development