Secure Software and Embedded Systems Engineer (entry level)

You will join a small team of dedicated engineers and researchers in creating advanced technologies for ensuring security and resiliency of next-generation mission-critical systems relevant to National Security. Examples of such systems include both cyber-physical systems (e.g., drones and satellites) and pure cyber systems (e.g., operating systems, software analysis tools, and communication systems). You will assist in the study, development, and prototyping of new technologies in secure computing, storage, and communication areas, and ultimately the transfer of such technologies to real-world use cases.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Security, System Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related fields;

• Knowledge and experience in one or more of the following:
  
  
  
  • design/development in Rust, C/C++, and/or Python
  • familiarity with the software development lifecycle, including design, documentation, testing, and DevSecOps.
  • analysis, modeling, design, development, testing, and verification of embedded systems (e.g., C, VHDL).
  • analysis, architecture, design, implementation, and measurement of secure sub-systems and systems.
  • academic or professional research experience and/or publications in the areas of computer security, resiliency, and/or cryptography
  • awareness of cryptographicmodels and techniques
  • awareness of government and industry computer security / cryptography standards
  
  
  
  

• The passion to convert vision into reality, excellent work ethic, and effective communication skills are essential.

Includes one or more of the following:

• System engineering. Computer and software security. Familiarity with or interest in secure programming. Multi-core/multi-thread computing.
• Operating system internals, OS-level middleware, distributed systems, and network protocols. Data-structures, state-machines, and algorithms.
• Communication and cryptographic standards and technologies, such as IPSec, TLS, CMS, X.509, MACsec, etc.
• Advanced and applied cryptography, security protocols, such as Multi-Party Computation.
• Embedded, real-time, and hardware systems security.
• Moving target defense techniques: Dynamic Runtime Environment, Networks, Platforms, Software, and Data.