Senior Embedded Software/Firmware Engineer with Security Clearance

About the role

Radiance Technologies, a rapidly growing employee-owned company, seeks talented scientists and engineers with expertise in microelectronics security and systems security development to join our Advanced Technology Development Operation (ATDO). Our team works on modern embedded systems, addressing physical security threats across their lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Develop and analyze anti-tamper / protective technology capabilities and products, advancing the state-of-the-art in secure microelectronics packaging and system-level security for weapons systems.
• Work at all design and development stages, from ideation to formal production acceptance testing for electronics subsystems utilizing embedded commercial processors, ASICs, SoCs, GPUs, and FPGAs.
• Turn up initial custom hardware prototype designs and mature said prototypes into deployable solutions.
• Work well as part of small, fast-paced, and mission-driven teams.

Requirements

• B.S. or higher in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or relevant technical field with 10+ years direct experience developing embedded systems (Advanced STEM degrees will substitute for experience on a year-for-year basis)
• Active Secret security clearance or the ability to obtain a DoD security clearance
• Understanding of schematics, ability to perform lab tests on designs and components, experience with custom electronics turn-up, and troubleshooting and improving new and existing embedded designs
• Embedded Debugging / Emulation
• Real-time OS experience
• Embedded Linux and Linux hardware driver creation
• Expert level C programmer
• FPGA interface and integration

Desirable Qualifications / Skills

• Advanced degrees in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or relevant technical field with 15+ years of relevant work experience
• Active Top Secret clearance
• Demonstrated expertise as technical lead / architect for embedded projects - conceptualizing solutions to open-ended problems, deriving implementable requirements, and conveying design intent to a broader team.
• Entrepreneurial mindset - propose new ideas, processes, tools and solutions
• Excel at verbal and written communication with customers and team members by providing reports, technical documentation, and guidance as well as participation in the systems engineering process including architecture selection
• Microcode
• Cryptographic algorithm implementation
• Development of cryptographic primitives beyond encryption
• Advanced knowledge of Roots of Security / Secure Processors. Hardware Security experience - tamper vulnerability research including hardware exploitation, side-channel attacks, fault-injection attacks, and nation-state level reverse engineering threat vectors
• Assisting ATDO in capturing additional business through customer interactions, proposal development, and authoring enhanced white papers
• Authoring of software development plans
• Proficiency and willingness to mentor junior technical personnel

Benefits

Security Clearance: Applicants selected may be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

Pay

Competitive salary commensurate with experience.

Schedule

Full-time position.

Qualifications

Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.