Senior Hardware Engineer

Onsite | Quantico, VA | 5 Days a Week

Active Top Secret Clearance Required

Summary

Our client brings bold thinking and a desire to be the best at their work in consulting, analytics, digital solutions, engineering, cyber, and with industries ranging from defense to health to energy to international development.

Responsibilities

Our client is looking for a Senior Hardware Engineer to join their team! In this role, you’ll be part of a mission-oriented engineering group challenged to do the impossible and recover data that may be deleted. You’ll directly impact criminal and counter-intelligence investigations by applying failure analysis, glitching, and side-channel analysis techniques to reverse engineer embedded systems. This is a chance to use your experience-based knowledge in a range of embedded systems development and testing while broadening your skillset into areas like advanced side-channel analysis, hardware-backed security components, and reverse engineering.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience with embedded systems development, including firmware development, bare-metal programming, and FPGA development

• 5+ years of experience with capturing schematics and designing PCBs

• 5+ years of experience with design, layout, and troubleshooting high-speed digital IO, including LVDS, PCIe, DDR, SATA, orJESD204B

• Experience with integrating state-of-the-art mobile and IoT processors, PMICs, RF Modules, and highly integrated supporting chips

• Knowledge of test equipment, including vector network analyzers, spectrum analyzers, signal generators, oscilloscopes, or logic analyzers

• Knowledge of Arm Architecture

• Knowledge of low-power microprocessor integration, including PIC16, PIC32, and STM32

• Knowledge of modern product interfaces, including USB 1/2/3, JTAG/SWD, I2C, SPI, UART, or Ethernet

Preferred Requirements

• Experience in working with Operating System code

• Knowledge of designing with Altera FPGAs

• Knowledge of cryptography

• Knowledge of Flash memory and RAM concepts

• Knowledge of secure boot processes

• A Master's degree in EE or Computer Engineering

Education/Certification Requirements

• A Bachelor's degree in EE or Computer Engineering is required for this position

Clearance Requirements

• Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; an active Top Secret clearance is required.