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Period of Work: May through August 2025

Location(s): Bedford, MA,

In Office Requirements: Hybrid onsite for 2 or 3 days per week.

Clearance Requirement: Students will be submitted for a U.S. Government Security Clearance

The Electronic Systems Innovation Center is 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. The 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.

Project opportunities in embedded security include:

• 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

  Project opportunities in electronic systems development include:

• Embedded software development

• Design and support in FPGA development

• Hardware/software integration and validation

• RF design and testing

Basic Qualifications:

• Currently enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate degree in the areas of Electrical/Computer engineering, Computer Science, and/or Practical Cyber Studies.

• Experience with developing and analyzing hardware, embedded, and/or IoT systems.

• Experience with programming in languages such as Python, Java, C++, or C.

• Must have sustained excellence in academic performance.

  Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience having applied experience or similar learning to an internship or research/lab position.

• EE/CE: Course 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.

• Effective oral and written communication skills.

• High level desire to help their nation solve its most critical problems.

  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

Work Location Type:

Hybrid

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