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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.Department Summary:\nMITRE’s Electronic Systems Security department is seeking to hire talented and creative software vulnerability researchers and reverse engineers with a focus on embedded systems. Our researchers tackle the most complex, challenging, and impactful embedded security problems of our customers on projects of national significance. We conduct in-depth technical assessments on embedded software operation, research security vulnerabilities, develop exploit proofs-of-concept, and deliver technical capabilities to defend and enable our customers’ missions. Through our diverse customers and missions, our teams tackle a rich variety of embedded software types including bare metal firmware, real-time operating system firmware, the Linux kernel, and user-space binaries to name a few. 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Together, this multi-disciplinary group performs hands-on research and analysis and develops proof-of-concept prototypes to demonstrate and advance the state-of-the-art in embedded security.\nRoles & Responsibilities:\nDevelop new approaches and countermeasures for emerging threats to embedded systems\nHelp develop prototypes (hardware and software) to demonstrate advanced capabilities\nPerform hands-on security assessments of embedded systems\nDevelop software for interfacing with and controlling lab equipment for data collection, measurement, and analysis\nContribute creative and innovative ideas to help shape internal research\nTrack, adapt, and apply academic and industry advances in embedded security analysis and protection techniques to secure our sponsors’ systems\nCollaborate with academic partners to improve embedded security education at our nation’s universities and high schools\nBasic Qualifications:\nTypically requires less than 1 year of related experience with a related Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.\nBS degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or similar field\nMust be US citizen capable of obtaining and maintaining a DoD Secret security clearance\nExperience with developing and analyzing hardware, embedded, and/or IoT systems\nExperience with programming in languages such as Python, Rust, Java, C++, or C\nEffective oral and written communication skills\nThis position requires a minimum of 4 days a week on-site.\nPreferred Qualifications:\nBS, MS, or PhD degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or similar field and/or 2+ years of related experience\nExperience with one or more of the following technical areas:Signal and/or image processing; machine learning\nExperience with board- and component-level instrumentation and measurement (e.g., capturing digital and analog signals via mixed-domain oscilloscopes)\nSoftware-defined radio usage; wireless and/or network communications\nBasic knowledge of common hardware components, packaging, and board-level integration\nBasic technical understanding of circuits and PCB layout designs\n\nStrong interest in and/or experience with one or more embedded security topics including but not limited to: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) \nHardware security implementation analysis and exploitation (cryptography, side-channel analysis, and/or fault injection)\nInvasive and semi-invasive attacks (and protection techniques) on integrated circuits (IC decapsulation, laser fault injection, photo emission analysis, thermal laser stimulation)\n\nThis requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):\nNoneThis requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):\nNoneSalary compensation range and midpoint:\n$89,200 - $111,500 - $133,800 AnnualWork Location Type:\nOnsiteIt is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. 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