Senior Wireless Security Engineer

The Mitre Corporation•New Bedford, MA

67d•$126,800 - $190,200•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. 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.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

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