Embedded Security and/or Electronics Prototype Intern / Summer 2025 / Bedford, MA
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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):
NoneThis requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):
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