Associate Wireless & Security Engineer

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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
• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team of engineers

Basic Qualifications:

• Typically requires less than 1 year of related experience with a related Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering, Computer Science, 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 software design in languages such as Python, C/C++, or Rust for PCs and embedded systems
• Familiarity with foundational communications, networking, and/or signal processing concepts
• Effective oral and written communication skills
• This 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
• Familiarity and/or experience with one or more of the following technical areas:
  • Software development practices including design and code reviews, testing and regression, revision control, and user documentation
  • Software-defined radio usage
  • Networking and/or wireless communications protocol stack(s)
  • Cryptography and security concepts such as key-agreement protocols, authentication, encryption, etc.
  • 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