Research Scientist
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Position Description:
Since its inception in 1996, the Virginia Commonwealth University College of Engineering has brought innovative, real-world engineering education to Central Virginia. Comprised of five different departments plus the Dean’s office, the College of Engineering enrolls more than 1,700 undergraduate and 250 graduate students in several degree programs supported by approximately 530 full-time, part-time, and student employees. The College of Engineering's department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Dependable Cyber Physical Systems lab is seeking a talented Research Scientist to assist with research and development of high assurance embedded systems.
This position will be collaborative between the VCU Dependable Cyber Physical Systems Lab and Medical Device Security Lab. Both of these labs focus on research, design, and assessment of secure and trustworthy Cyber Physical systems. These labs are multidisciplinary in nature, comprising faculty and research members whose expertise spans across hardware and software architectures, autonomous Cyber Physical Systems, cyber-security, secure-by-design methods, advanced medical devices and biosensors. This specific position is expected to contribute to several funded projects.
These projects include, but not limited to:
- Medical device security and authenticity
- Applying state of the art FPGA design and verification tools to design safe and secure systems
- Investigating methods for runtime verification of safety in Autonomous Systems.
The research scientist will collaborate with VCU faculty on Cyber Physical Systems and cybersecurity projects and proposal writing. Responsibilities include conducting research, publishing in leading conferences and journals, preparation and submission of related grant proposals, and teaching or co-teaching one class per year.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Ph.D. in Electrical/Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or closely related discipline from an accredited institution.
- Strong background in cyber physical systems, embedded system design and FPGA design.
- Deep knowledge of Arm Processors families and System-on-a-Chip architectures.
- Deep Knowledge of FPGA design and development.
- Designing secure embedded medical devices at the HW and SW level
- Programming in C, C , VHDL, Verilog, Python
- Secure-by-Design methods especially with Physically Unclonable Functions.
- The College of Engineering supports a diverse faculty, staff, and student environment. The candidate will demonstrate experience that shows their commitment to fostering such and environment. And will also demonstrate their experience that shows their commitment to fostering innovative research
Preferred Qualifications:
- Knowledge of Arm Trust Zone
- Model Based Engineering tools for realizing embedded systems
- Xilinx, Keil, and Arm tool chains
- Cyber Security defensive methods for Medical Internet of Things
- Offensive cyber security assessment methods
- Teaching experience at the undergraduate level
- Strong writing and communication skills for producing reports, papers, and teaching.
Salary Range: 60,000 - 65,000
Position Details:
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Employment Type: UF - University Employee FT
Restricted Status: Yes
FTE: 100
Exemption Status: Exempt
Contact Information:
Contact Name: Sierra Cloud
Contact Email: [email protected]
Contact Phone: 804-828-1788