Associate Wireless Security Engineer

The MITRE CorporationMclean, VA

$89,200 - $111,500 / year

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Overview

Schedule

Full-time

Education

Engineering (PE)

Career level

Senior-level

Remote

On-site

Compensation

$89,200-$111,500/year

Job Description

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.

Department Summary:

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 through hands-on experimentation and prototype development.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Engineers in this role will develop and apply their technical expertise to:

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
Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team of engineers

Minimum Qualifications:

BS degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or similar field with less than 1 year 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
Familiarity with foundational communications, networking, and/or signal processing concepts
Effective oral and written communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

MS, or PhD degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or similar field
Familiarity and/or experience with one or more of the following technical areas:
Software development practices including design and code reviews, testing and regression, revision control, and user documentation
Software-defined radio usage
Networking and/or wireless communications protocol stack(s)
Cryptography and security concepts such as key-agreement protocols, authentication, encryption, etc.
System security assessment: e.g., protocol reverse engineering, vulnerability discovery/assessment
AI model development / training

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

None

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

Secret

Salary compensation range and midpoint:

$89,200 - $111,500 - $133,800 Annual

Work Location Type:

Onsite

It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local or international law.

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