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Department Summary:

MITRE’s Electronic Systems Development and Embedded Security department is seeking to hire talented and creative engineers with a focus on embedded wireless systems and protocols to support advanced research and development projects of national significance.

Qualified candidates will join a team of technical experts in the implementation, analysis, and evaluation of wireless systems and their security. This multi-disciplinary team performs hands-on research and analysis and develops proof-of-concept prototypes to demonstrate capabilities involving advanced communication network technologies. Our diverse set of sponsors and research objectives provide a wide variety of interesting and impactful work opportunities.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Engineers in this role will develop and apply their technical expertise to:

• Research and develop new approaches and countermeasures for emerging security threats to wireless systems

• Design and build prototypes to demonstrate advanced capabilities

• Perform hands-on functional and security assessments of wireless systems and implementations

• Develop software for interfacing with and controlling lab equipment for data collection, measurement, and analysis

• Shape creative and innovative ideas through internal research and capability development programs to advance the state-of-the art in wireless security

• Track, adapt, and apply academic and industry advances in embedded security analysis and protection techniques to secure our sponsors’ systems

• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, while leading tasks and/or teams of engineers

• Collaborate with academic partners to improve wireless and security education at our nation’s universities and high schools

Basic Qualifications:

• Typically 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 without experience in Electrical or Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or similar field; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.

• Must be US citizen capable of obtaining and maintaining a DoD Secret security clearance

• Experience with wireless communications, networking, and/or signal processing concepts/protocols

• Experience with software design in languages such as Python, C/C++, or Rust for PCs and embedded systems

• Experience with software development practices including design and code reviews, testing and regression, revision control, and user documentation

• Effective oral and written communication skills

• The position has an on-site requirement of 5 days a week

Preferred Qualifications:

• MS, or PhD degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or similar field and/or 5+ years of related experience

• Experience with one or more of the following technical areas:

• Implementation of networking and/or wireless communications protocol stack(s)

• Software-defined radio usage for wireless networking/communications

• LTE, 5G, or other radio access network configuration, function development, and/or evaluation

• Cryptography and security concepts such as key-agreement protocols, authentication, encryption, etc.

• Containerized application software design and container orchestration systems (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)

• System security assessment: e.g., protocol reverse engineering, vulnerability discovery/assessment

  This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

None

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

Secret

Work Location Type:

Onsite

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