Senior Wireless Security Engineer

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Department Summary: MITRE’s Electronic Systems 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 department with deep technical expertise across many embedded security disciplines including software vulnerability research and reverse engineering, hardware reverse engineering, secure computing, and implementation security. This multi-disciplinary wireless security team applies deep understanding of advanced wireless network technologies, including 5G cellular, to instrument, analyze, and evaluate wireless technologies & transceiver implementations through hands-on experimentation and prototype development.

Roles and Responsibilities: As a member of the wireless security team, you will develop and apply your 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

Minimum Qualifications:

• BS degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or similar field and 5 years of related 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
• Experience with wireless communications, networking, and/or signal processing concepts/protocols
• Experience with software development practices including design and code reviews, testing and regression, revision control, and user documentation
• Effective oral and written communication skills
• This position has an on-site requirement of 5 days a week on-site

Preferred Qualifications:

• MS, or PhD degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or similar field and/or 8+ 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

• AI model development / training

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

Salary compensation range and midpoint: $126,800 - $158,500 - $190,200 Annual

Work Location Type: Onsite

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