Lead R&D Cybersecurity Engineer, Microelectronics (Onsite)

Sandia National Laboratories; New Mexico; On-site; USD 118,000 - 236,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Affordable housing

Minimal traffic congestion

Job summary

Sandia National Laboratories is seeking a Senior/Principal R&D Cybersecurity Engineer focused on microelectronics hardware assurance and analysis. You will combine hands-on lab work with technical leadership to design rigorous experiments and advance hardware cybersecurity capabilities across board, device, and chip scales.

You will collaborate with microelectronics and cybersecurity specialists, mentor teammates, and present findings to stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline and five years of directly relevant experience or equivalent combination
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE Q and SCI clearance, possibly with a polygraph

Responsibilities

• Define, plan, and execute hardware-focused cybersecurity investigations
• Lead hardware analysis across board/subsystem/device/chip scales
• Develop, improve, and document laboratory workflows and processes
• Synthesize lab data, modeling, and literature into defensible conclusions
• Communicate findings to stakeholders in writing and presentations
• Contribute to proposals and new research directions

Skills

Microscopy expertise

Scripting/high-level programming

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline

Graduate degree in related field

Tools

FIB/SEM techniques

DOE Q and SCI clearance familiarity

Job description

Sandia National Laboratories is seeking a Senior/Principal R&D Cybersecurity Engineer focused on microelectronics hardware assurance and analysis. You will combine hands-on lab work with technical leadership to design rigorous experiments and advance hardware cybersecurity capabilities across board, device, and chip scales.

You will collaborate with microelectronics and cybersecurity specialists, mentor teammates, and present findings to stakeholders.