What are the responsibilities and job description for the Research Scientist - FPGAs position at Riverside Research Institute?
Riverside Overview :
Riverside Research is an independent National Security Nonprofit dedicated to research and development in the national interest. We provide high-end technical services, research and development, and prototype solutions to some of the countrys most challenging technical problems.
All Riverside Research opportunities require U.S. Citizenship.
Position Overview :
As we approach the forecasted death of Moores law, compute platform architectures need to rely on increasingly complex compositions of different types of hardware resources to achieve mission objectives with acceptable SWAP-C. The proof may be right in your pocket with modern smartphones combining high-performance cores, low-power cores and GPUs to offer optimal user experience.
From the security perspective, heterogeneous architectures offer exciting new capabilities while at the same time threatening platform security by adding complexity. In Riverside Researchs Secure and Resilient Systems group, we study security in foundational system layers including operating systems, hypervisors, and compilers. However, modern heterogeneous compute platforms demand hardware-inclusive solutions as well.
Riverside research is seeking a research scientist to provide a hardware perspective in low-level software security projects. The research scientist will work with the group to design and implement experiments and prototypes to validate security-focused hypotheses. The research scientist will need to balance technical depth with strong communication skills to work within an interdisciplinary technical team and communicate requirements and results to internal and external program management.
Although expertise in any of these particular domains is not required, a good candidate for this role would be interested in discussing cutting-edge research topics such as :
- Automatic translation of programming language code to FPGA circuits (IE high level synthesis)
- Offensive and defensive capabilities offered by arbitrary control of the fabric in a tightly-coupled FPGA on an SOC like the Xilinx Zynq
- The level of introspection possible from peripheral busses like PCIe
- Program partitioning for platforms with heterogeneous compute
- Security-focused ISAs (or ISA extensions) like CHERI / ARM Morello
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90,000 - $145,000 This represents the typical compensation range for this position based on experience, location and other factors.
Closing Statement :
Riverside Research Institute is a not-for-profit, technology-oriented defense company, where service to our customers and support of our staff is our overall mission. Riverside is an affirmative action-equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws regarding recruitment and hiring. Riverside offers comprehensive compensation and benefit packages to our employees.
Riverside bases its employment decisions solely on technical experience, qualifications and other job-related criteria related to our organizational purpose as a not-for-profit company, and without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, physical or mental disability, veterans status or any other status legally protected by applicable federal, state, and local law.
Salary : $90,000 - $145,000
