1 day ago
New Bedford, MA, USA or McLean, VA, USASenior
Base Salary
$144k - $215k/yr
Responsibilities
- Evaluate and apply AI/ML solutions to mission-critical embedded security challenges.
- Integrate AI/ML capabilities into existing tools and workflows.
- Conduct embedded security research, vulnerability assessment, reverse engineering, and hardware/software co-design.
- Develop prototypes, technical recommendations, embedded security requirements, acquisition guidance, and implementation security best practices.
- Provide engineering support directly to government sponsors and communicate technical approaches, risks, and results.
- Lead technical work, shape research direction, and mentor junior engineers.
Requirements
- Typically requires five years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree, three years with a master’s degree, a PhD with relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
- Experience applying AI/ML or deep learning to real technical problems and developing custom domain-specific AI/ML solutions.
- Demonstrated experience in embedded systems security and low-level system analysis.
- Background in computer architecture or microarchitecture, operating systems security, hardware security, reverse engineering, side-channel analysis, or fault injection.
- Proficiency in Python and C/C++, with low-level or embedded software development experience.
- Experience with Linux, RTOS, kernel/driver concepts, or embedded operating environments.
- Ability to lead technical work, communicate with sponsors, and shape research direction.
- Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Secret U.S. government security clearance and be a U.S. citizen for clearance eligibility.
- Preferred: master’s degree or PhD in AI, computer engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, or a related field; active Top Secret or TS/SCI clearance; and technical depth across transistor/silicon, OS, firmware, and application layers.
Benefits
- Competitive benefits, career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence.
- Onsite work location with a minimum of three days per week onsite.
- The hired candidate must obtain a Secret clearance within one year of hire.
About MITRE
MITRE is a nonprofit systems engineering and applied research organization that operates multiple federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies. It builds prototypes, frameworks (such as the MITRE ATT&CK knowledge base), and provides technical guidance across defense, cybersecurity, aviation, and healthcare. Founded in 1958 and headquartered in McLean, Virginia, MITRE runs FFRDCs for sponsors including the Department of Defense, the Federal Aviation Administration, and health agencies.