Job DescriptionCOLSA is seeking a Hardware Security Engineer with FPGA/ASIC experience to join our team in Huntsville, Alabama. This position will support the design and development of secure FPGA/ASIC solutions, with a focus on protecting critical hardware and systems from security threats and vulnerabilities.
• Designs, develops, reviews, and modifies complex hardware devices and systems.
• Designs, implements, reviews, and verifies FPGA and ASIC architectures using VHDL, Verilog, and System Verilog.
• Performs RTL design, simulation, synthesis, timing analysis, and hardware validation throughout the development lifecycle.
• Integrates hardware security capabilities into FPGA and ASIC designs, including cryptographic modules, secure boot, key management, and hardware root of trust technologies.
• Develops and reviews secure hardware solutions to protect critical functions, intellectual property, and sensitive data from reverse engineering, tampering, and other hardware-based threats.
• Supports FPGA/ASIC prototyping, hardware bring-up, laboratory testing, troubleshooting, and verification of hardware and security features.
• Supports threat modeling, Critical Program Information (CPI) protection, anti-tamper, and supply-chain risk assessments.
• Integrates protection technologies into hardware systems and evaluates their compatibility and effectiveness against applicable requirements.
• Compiles and evaluates design, test, and verification data and prepares technical specifications and engineering documentation.
• Works with technical and program stakeholders to define requirements, evaluate design trades and solutions, and assess implementation approaches, costs, impacts, and effectiveness.
• Prepares and presents technical findings, identified vulnerabilities, risks, and recommended mitigation strategies.
Required Experience- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Minimum of 2 years of relevant hardware engineering experience
- Experience leading complex engineering projects from planning through execution and delivery.
- Experience planning and executing technical projects, including managing milestones, deliverables, schedules, risks, and cross-functional dependencies.
- Experience with hardware testing and validation, including developing test plans, analyzing results, troubleshooting issues, and documenting technical outcomes.
- Experience with hardware security, secure hardware design, anti-tamper, or related hardware protection technologies
- U.S. citizenship required.
- Active Secret security clearance required, with the ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret security clearance.
Preferred Qualifications• Active TS clearance
• Experience with cryptographic hardware, secure boot, key management, and/or hardware root of trust technologies.
• Experience with hardware vulnerability analysis, threat modeling, reverse-engineering protection, or other hardware-based threat mitigation.
• Experience with Critical Program Information (CPI) protection and/or anti-tamper program activities.
• Experience with FPGA and/or ASIC design and development.
• Experience with VHDL, Verilog, and/or System Verilog.
• Experience with RTL design, simulation, synthesis, timing analysis, and hardware verification.
• Experience with FPGA/ASIC prototyping, hardware bring-up, laboratory testing, and debugging.
• Experience with supply-chain risk assessment related to hardware or microelectronics.
• Experience supporting DoD, aerospace, or other mission-critical hardware systems.
