{"id":3246813,"url":"https://alion.io/job/mitre-senior-hardware-security-engineer","title":"Senior Hardware Security Engineer","company":{"id":37980,"name":"MITRE","domain":"mitre.org","url":"https://alion.io/company/mitre","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Phenom","truth_index":null},"role":"Security","role_family":"Security","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Albuquerque, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":126800,"max":158500,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":158500},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Electron Microscopy (SEM/TEM)","optional":false},{"name":"C++","optional":true},{"name":"Computer Vision","optional":true},{"name":"Machine Learning","optional":true},{"name":"Python","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-24","last_verified_at":"2026-11-03T18:55:48Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":10,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":10},"description":"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 hardware 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 operation, research security vulnerabilities, develop exploit proofs-of-concept, and deliver technical capabilities to defend and enable our customers’ missions. Our successes have driven and continue to drive us to develop advanced tools that enable, accelerate, and scale our embedded system vulnerability research and reverse engineering analyses as well as bring differentiated value to our customers.\nQualified candidates will join a department with deep technical expertise across many embedded security disciplines including hardware reverse engineering and vulnerability research, secure computing, and implementation security. 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:\nSenior engineers in the embedded hardware reverse engineering team will develop and apply their technical expertise to:\nPerform hands-on security assessments of embedded systems, e.g. byAnalyzing scanning electron microscope (SEM) imagery to identify and interpret microelectronic structures, including interconnects, vias, contacts, transistors, and other features within integrated circuits\nCorrelating physical integrated circuit structures with schematics, layouts, netlists, or expected circuit functionality\nNon-volatile memory extraction\nDesigning and building prototypes to demonstrate advanced capabilities for measuring and instrumenting board- and component-level interfaces\n\nAdvance the state-of-the-art in hardware security by researching and developing new approaches for, and countermeasures to, emerging threats to embedded systems\nTrack, adapt, and apply academic and industry advances in hardware security analysis and protection techniques to secure our sponsors’ systems\nCollaborate with multidisciplinary teams conducting embedded security research, vulnerability assessment, and hardware/software co-design\nWork as part of a multi-disciplinary team, while leading tasks and/or teams of engineers\nCommunicate and document technical approaches, risks, and results to sponsors and stakeholders\nProvide technical mentorship to junior engineers\nBasic Qualifications:\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field and 5 years of related experience; or Master’s degree/PhD in a similar field and 3 years of related experience\nTypically 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.\nKnowledge of semiconductor devices, integrated circuit fabrication processes, and common IC structures\nUnderstanding of digital circuit design topics - including hardware description languages, microelectronics, VLSI design automation, and computer architecture\nUnderstanding of protections against physical attacks including secure boot, tamper sensing, secure key storage, memory encryption/authentication, and debug interface disablement\nAbility to independently execute complex technical work in collaborative environments\nEffective oral and written communication skills\nMust be eligible to obtain and maintaina SecretU.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.\nThis position requires a minimum of 4 days a week on-site\nPreferred Qualifications:\nMaster’s degree or PhD in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field\n\nActive security clearance, especially Top Secret or TS/SCI.\nDemonstrated technical leadership and mentoring experience\nExperience with:\nEmbedded system tear-down, reverse engineering, vulnerability analysis, and circuit/component modifications\nAnti-tamper design, implementation, evaluation, and/or research\nASIC and/or FPGA design\nNetlist recreation of printed circuit boards and components using X-ray or destructive imaging\nBoard- and component-level instrumentation, measurement, and protocol analysis\nPrototyping printed circuit boards for probing or injecting high-speed signals\nSoftware development (e.g., C/C++, Python)\nDigital signal and image processing\nComputer vision and machine learning\nFamiliarity with:\nSemiconductor depackaging, delayering, failure analysis, and FIB-SEM techniques\nApplication of side-channel analysis and/or fault injection to black-box systems\nAnalysis of cryptographic algorithms and protocols\nAnalysis of RF protocols\nAnalysis of security architectures of modern commercial processors and SoCs\nEmbedded firmware reverse engineering\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):\nSecretSalary compensation range and midpoint:\n$126,800 - $158,500 - $190,200 AnnualWork Location Type:\nOnsiteCommitment to Non-Discrimination\nAll qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local or international law.\nMITRE intends to maintain a website that is fully accessible to all individuals. 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