Embedded Security Intern - Electronics Prototype

The MITRE Corporation•New Bedford, MA

1d•$46,500 - $69,500•Onsite

About The Position

At MITRE, your passion fuels work that impacts our nation and improves lives. This is where your skills strengthen national security, cybersecurity, health, transportation, and citizen services. We’re a nonprofit engineering, applied research, and advanced technology organization working in the public interest. With objectivity and integrity at our core, we lead federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies – collaborating with industry and academia to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions that advance our nation’s health, security, and prosperity. Our people tackle the toughest technical challenges, supported by competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence. Choose MITRE for a career with purpose — and help shape the future. We are seeking to hire talented and creative engineering students with a focus on embedded systems development and/or embedded security to support several different advanced research and development projects of national significance. Qualified candidates will join teams of technical experts in embedded systems development and/or security. Our multi-disciplinary teams perform hands-on development of electronic systems and research, analyze, and develop proof-of-concept prototypes to demonstrate and advance the state-of-the-art in embedded security. Our diverse set of sponsors and research objectives provide a wide variety of interesting work opportunities.

Requirements

Sustained excellence in academic performance
Must be a student enrolled full-time in an accredited degree-seeking program in Electrical/Computer Engineering, Computer Science or a related degree and continue to be enrolled full-time the semester following the internship.
Experience with developing and analyzing hardware, embedded, and/or IoT systems
Experience with programming in languages such as Python, Java, C++, or C
Effective oral and written communication skills
Demonstrated interest in serving the public

Nice To Haves

EE/CE: Courses in the areas of Circuits, Digital Logic, Electronics, and Computer Architecture.
CS: Courses in the areas of Algorithms, Discrete Mathematics, and Digital Logic.
Highly Desired: Courses in FPGA design, reverse engineering (firmware and/or hardware), computer security concepts, wireless communications, and/or embedded systems.
Experience applying AI to reverse engineering tasks and/or embedded systems development.

Responsibilities

Assist in the development of new approaches and countermeasures for emerging threats to embedded systems
Help develop prototypes (hardware and software) to demonstrate advanced capabilities
Perform hands-on security assessments of embedded systems
Conduct experiments with commercial or customized wireless protocols
Develop software for interfacing with and controlling lab equipment for data collection, measurement, and analysis
Embedded software development
Design and support in FPGA development
Hardware/software integration and validation
RF design and testing