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The MITRE Corporation Embedded Security and/or Electronics Prototype Intern / Summer 2025 / Bedford, MA in Bedford, Massachusetts

Why choose between doing meaningful work and having a fulfilling life? At MITRE, you can have both. That's because MITRE people are committed to tackling our nation's toughest challenges—and we're committed to the long-term well-being of our employees. MITRE is different from most technology companies. We are a not-for-profit corporation chartered to work for the public interest, with no commercial conflicts to influence what we do. The R&D centers we operate for the government create lasting impact in fields as diverse as cybersecurity, healthcare, aviation, defense, and enterprise transformation. We're making a difference every day—working for a safer, healthier, and more secure nation and world. Our workplace reflects our values. We offer competitive benefits, exceptional professional development opportunities, and a culture of innovation that embraces diversity, inclusion, flexibility, collaboration, and career growth. If this sounds like the choice you want to make, then choose MITRE—and make a difference with us.

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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