# Senior Microelectronics Security Engineer

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related technical area with 12 years relevant experience, or a related technical Master’s degree with 8 years relevant experience, or a PhD in a related field with 5 years relevant experience Secret clearance required to start, but must be able obtain Top Secret security clearance and all required program access approvals Willing to work in a secure US Government facility Experience with supporting government contracts Experience planning, developing, and executing R&D program strategy Strong understanding of hardware security attacks, hardware exploitation, or side-channel analysis Extensive experience reverse engineering operating systems via embedded Linux (e.g. PetaLinux, Yocto, Buildroot), RTOS (e.g. VxWorks, Integrity), and bare-metal systems (e.g. firmware) Experience with a disassembler for vulnerability research (Ghira, IDA Pro, BinaryNinja) Experience with one or more assembly languages (x86, x64, ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, etc.) Experience with debuggers like (WinDbg, HyperDbg, GDB/KGDB/KDB, TRACE32, and OpenOCD) Strong familiarity with published vulnerability databases (CVE, etc.) Experience with embedded processor

- **Id**: 4045071
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/riverside-research-senior-microelectronics-security-engineer>
- **Role**: Security
- **Role family**: Security
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Dayton, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T23:34:40Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T23:34:40Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1886
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Electrical & Electronic Engineering, National Security, Research Institutes

## Company

- **Id**: 2113336
- **Name**: Riverside Research
- **Domain**: riversideresearch.org
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/riversideresearch>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: iCIMS

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **CVE** — Optional: no
- **IDA Pro** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **OpenOCD** — Optional: no
- **PetaLinux** — Optional: no
- **RTOS** — Optional: no
- **Rust** — Optional: no
- **WinDbg** — Optional: no
- **Assembly** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T23:34:40Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 16
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T01:42:15Z

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