Embedded Systems Security & Analysis Research Assistant

Pennsylvania State University; University Park (TX); On-site; USD 23,000 - 32,000; Part time

Job summary

Penn State College of IST Cyber Security Lab is seeking a Research Assistant on a wage payroll basis in Pennsylvania. The role focuses on recovering the boundary between application logic and hardware-dependent code in embedded firmware, combining embedded security, program analysis, and system emulation.

Part-time wage payroll employment with responsibilities including framework development, experiments, and technical reporting. Background checks apply as per university policy.

Qualifications

• Experience in embedded real-time systems and program analysis.
• Ability to design/implement analysis techniques for firmware boundaries.
• Familiarity with hardware/software interfaces in embedded contexts.

Responsibilities

• Identify and address limitations in separating embedded software from hardware dependencies.
• Develop a framework that recovers the boundary automatically from firmware.
• Conduct experiments to validate the framework.
• Write a technical report documenting findings and methodology.

Skills

Embedded security

Program analysis

System emulation

Job description

Penn State College of IST Cyber Security Lab is seeking a Research Assistant on a wage payroll basis in Pennsylvania. The role focuses on recovering the boundary between application logic and hardware-dependent code in embedded firmware, combining embedded security, program analysis, and system emulation.

Part-time wage payroll employment with responsibilities including framework development, experiments, and technical reporting. Background checks apply as per university policy.