Hardware Security Engineer - FPGA/ASIC

Colsa-5; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

COLSA seeks a Hardware Security Engineer in Huntsville, Alabama, to design and develop secure FPGA/ASIC solutions, protecting critical hardware and systems from threats. You will work on cryptographic modules, secure boot, key management, and hardware root of trust technologies across the development lifecycle.

Responsibilities include RTL design, testing, validation, threat modeling, and collaboration with stakeholders to evaluate design trades, costs, and impacts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering or related field.
• Minimum 2 years hardware engineering experience.
• Active Secret clearance with ability to obtain Top Secret.
• Experience leading complex engineering projects from planning through execution.

Responsibilities

• Designs, develops, reviews, and modifies complex hardware devices and systems.
• Implements FPGA/ASIC architectures using VHDL, Verilog, and System Verilog.
• Performs RTL design, simulation, synthesis, timing analysis, and hardware validation.
• Integrates hardware security capabilities into FPGA/ASIC designs, including cryptographic modules, secure boot, key management, and hardware root of trust technologies.
• Develops and reviews secure hardware solutions to protect critical functions, intellectual property, and sensitive data from reverse engineering, tampering, and other hardware-based threats.
• Supports FPGA/ASIC prototyping, hardware bring-up, laboratory testing, troubleshooting, and verification of hardware and security features.
• Prepares and presents technical findings, identified vulnerabilities, risks, and recommended mitigation strategies.

Skills

RTL design

VHDL/Verilog

Hardware security

Project leadership

Test planning

Security clearance

Hardware prototyping

DoD experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering

Tools

VHDL tools

Verilog/SystemVerilog tools

RTL verification

Job description

COLSA seeks a Hardware Security Engineer in Huntsville, Alabama, to design and develop secure FPGA/ASIC solutions, protecting critical hardware and systems from threats. You will work on cryptographic modules, secure boot, key management, and hardware root of trust technologies across the development lifecycle.

Responsibilities include RTL design, testing, validation, threat modeling, and collaboration with stakeholders to evaluate design trades, costs, and impacts.