Raymond G. Tronzo, M.D. Professor of Cybersecurity

Pennsylvania State University; University Park (TX); Sur place; USD 23 000 - 32 000; Temps partiel

Résumé du poste

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.

Responsabilités

• 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.

Connaissances

Embedded security

Program analysis

System emulation

Description du poste

The College of IST Cyber Security Lab has a wage payroll position open. We are looking for a research assistant who has expertise in the intersection of embedded systems security, program analysis, and system emulation. In particular, the researcher will work on recovering the boundary between application logic and hardware-dependent code in embedded firmware, and on assessing whether that boundary still holds once the firmware executes. Accordingly, the researcher should have adequate experience in both program analysis and real-time embedded systems. This position involves part-time wage payroll employment.

Job duties to include:

• Identify and address the limitations of existing approaches to separating embedded software from its hardware dependencies.
• Develop a new analysis framework that recovers this boundary automatically from firmware.
• Conduct experiments to validate the framework.
• Write a technical report.

Compensation:

The starting rate for this job is $20.

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