Secure Hardware Test Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton; City of Rome (NY); On-site; USD 55,000 - 126,000; Full time

Job summary

Booz Allen is seeking a Hardware Test Engineer to collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of hardware and cybersecurity engineers to evaluate secure DoD systems. The role focuses on testing hardware and firmware interactions, secure boot and firmware integrity, and virtualization boundary protections, using Whitebox adversarial testing and RMF alignment.

The position offers exposure to test environments, automation scripting, and architecture analysis while contributing to technical reports.

Qualifications

• Experience in cybersecurity, hardware, or embedded systems.
• Knowledge of Linux distributions and basic system administration.

Skills

Cybersecurity knowledge

Hardware/embedded systems

Linux and virtualization

Education

Bachelor’s degree by Summer 2027

Tools

GDB

Logic analyzers

Wireshark

Job description

Booz Allen is seeking a Hardware Test Engineer to collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of hardware and cybersecurity engineers to evaluate secure DoD systems. The role focuses on testing hardware and firmware interactions, secure boot and firmware integrity, and virtualization boundary protections, using Whitebox adversarial testing and RMF alignment.

The position offers exposure to test environments, automation scripting, and architecture analysis while contributing to technical reports.