Associate Embedded Software Engineer - Summer 2027

Location: Bedford, Massachusetts

At MITRE, your passion fuels work that impacts our nation and improves lives. This is where your skills strengthen national security, cybersecurity, health, transportation, and citizen services. We’re a nonprofit engineering, applied research, and advanced technology organization working in the public interest. With objectivity and integrity at our core, we lead federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies - collaborating with industry and academia to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions that advance our nation’s health, security, and prosperity. Our people tackle the toughest technical challenges, supported by competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence. Choose MITRE for a career with purpose - and help shape the future.

Would you like to join a team of world-class researchers and engineers commencing collectively starting Summer of 2027, focused on developing systems critical to national security? Are you seeking an opportunity to work in an environment where big ideas, sound technical arguments, and sponsor impacts are valued? Then MITRE might be the place for you!

At MITRE, we believe that good ideas lead to great solutions through testing, exploration, development, and demonstration. In MITRE's Electronic System Development and Embedded Security department, we apply this principle as we dig deep into hard problems to find innovative, practical ways to solve tough challenges for a variety of government sponsors across a range of technical applications.

We are currently seeking entry-level candidates to grow our team, specifically those with experience implementing embedded software on SoC or other embedded platforms. As part of our team, you will have the opportunity to design and implement technical solutions for a wide range of challenges currently faced by our government sponsors.

We specialize in rapid prototyping of advanced sensor, communication, and navigation systems on real-time embedded platforms. As an applied research organization, we focus on capability development and demonstration while remaining decoupled from protracted product lifecycles and system support roles. Our world-class labs provide a canvas for our team to conduct hands-on research and develop tangible solutions to support our military leaders and reinforce our nation's defense.

If this sounds interesting to you, then we would love to speak with you. Apply for this position!

Roles & Responsibilities

This position provides an exciting opportunity to design and prototype state-of-the-art embedded systems using commercial and custom platforms. Key opportunities include:

• Working on cross-disciplinary teams of similarly bright and motivated engineers on projects of national importance.
• Real-time communication and sensor systems leveraging state-of-the-art processors, FPGA & SoC technology, and cutting-edge SDR platforms.
• Advanced architectures for high-throughput signal processing.
• Low size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C), highly integrated custom platforms.
• A supportive culture of learning, professional growth, and development.
• Opportunities to build on skills and work on a diverse range of projects.
• Outstanding continuing education programs.

Basic Qualifications

• Typically requires less than 1 year of related experience with a related Bachelor's degree, or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or an equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Proficiency in C and/or C++ programming languages.
• Familiarity with good software development practices, including approaches to:DesignImplementationTestingDocumentationDebugging
• Understanding of embedded systems and hardware/software interaction.
• Basic knowledge of low-level processor architectures, operating system concepts, and hardware interfacing.
• Applicants selected for this position will be subject to a U.S. government security investigation and must be able to obtain and maintain a Department of Defense SECRET clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship.
• In addition, candidates must meet requirements to support project work onsite in our labs and classified facilities on the Bedford Campus.
• This position requires a minimum of 4 days a week onsite at our Bedford, MA facility.

Preferred Qualifications

• M.S. in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or similar field.
• Familiarity with object-oriented programming principles and working knowledge of one or more higher-level languages, such as Python, MATLAB, or Perl.
• Exposure to modern reconfigurable SoC platforms (AMD Xilinx MPSoC, RFSoC, Versal, or Intel Agilex SoC).
• Familiarity with common software development tools (e.g., Git, Make, CMake).
• Understanding of development best practices, including code reviews, regression testing, and user documentation.
• Familiarity with real-time operating systems, POSIX, and embedded Linux (user- and kernel-space development).
• Experience with low-level hardware/software system debugging.
• Solid foundation of basic digital signal processing (DSP) concepts and experience implementing real-time algorithms for communication, radar, or navigation systems.
• Familiarity with networking protocols (wired and wireless).
• Basic knowledge of one or more hardware description languages (HDLs), such as VHDL, Verilog, or SystemVerilog.

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