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The Riverside Research Engineering and Support Solutions (ESS) directorate conducts Research and Development (R&D) of cyber-physical attacks against embedded systems. As a Hardware Security Research Engineer, you will collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team of research engineers and scientists on a range of microelectronics research projects. You’ll work directly with a team of embedded system security research subject matter experts (SME), the senior Principal Investigator, and Program Manager to conduct research, development, test, and evaluation activities on a range of hardware security projects. Work is performed on Wright Patterson Air Force base. A minimum of a Secret clearance required to start, but you must be able obtain and maintain a Top-Secret security clearance and all required program access approvals. Remote work is not available for this position. Travel is not expected to exceed two to four times a year.

• Conduct research in the application of non-invasive side channel analysis (SCA) for problems within microelectronic hardware security
• Analyzes secure architectures to identify vulnerabilities
• Develop whitepapers and presentations to communicate research findings
• Contributes to proposals for new research in similar and/or related technology areas
• Work with Program Manager and Principal Investigator to plan, lead, and execute technical resource application to project; manage and communicate deliverable status and timelines
• Interacts with third-party vendors to collect appropriate source information
• Attends conferences to understand new attacks and protections
• Provide technical mentorship to junior researchers supporting your programs

Required Qualifications

• Understanding of implementation attacks including side-channel, glitching, etc.
• Experience with Verilog, VHDL, or SystemC
• Experience bare-metal programming microcontrollers or microprocessors
• Proficiency in C, C++, or Python
• Experience presenting technical material to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to manage timelines, product delivery, and product quality for research projects
• Willing to work in a secure US Government facility
• Experience in a research and development (R&D) environment solving open-ended problems
• Willing to travel 2-4 times per year
• Bachelor’s Degree in a quantitative discipline (e.g., computer engineering, electrical engineering, statistics, computer science, mathematics, physics, or other STEM fields) and 5 years' experience, or Master’s Degree in a related discipline and 3 years' experience, or a PhD in a related discipline

 

Desired Qualifications

• Understanding of cryptography implementation in embedded technologies including microcontrollers, FPGAs, ASICs, and related technologies
• Experience designing or working with security features of FPGAs or ASICs
• Understanding of cryptographic algorithms and protocols
• Experience developing and presenting research papers and presentations in relevant subject areas
• Experience using revision control software
• Understanding of information theory and its application to cryptographic algorithms
• Understanding of digital signal processing including filter design, wavelet transforms, frequency domain analysis, etc.

$120,000 - $160,000 This represents the typical compensation range for this position based on experience, location and other factors.

 
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