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Raymond G. Tronzo, M.D. Professor of Cybersecurity


Job Location:

University Park, IL - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 12 September 2026 (30+ days ago)
Application Deadline: 10 December 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS:

Approval of remote and hybrid work is not guaranteed regardless of work additional information on remote work at Penn State seeNotice to Out of State Applicants.

JOB DESCRIPTION AND POSITION REQUIREMENTS

The College of IST Cyber Security Lab has a wage payroll position open. We are looking for a research assistant who has expertise in the intersection of embedded systems security program analysis and system particular the researcher will work on recovering the boundary between application logic and hardware-dependent code in embedded firmware and on assessing whether that boundary still holds once the firmware executes. Accordingly the researcher should have adequate experience in both program analysis and real-time embedded systems. This position involves part-time wage payroll employment.

Job duties to include:

  • Identify and address the limitations of existing approaches to separating embedded software from its hardware dependencies.

  • Develop a new analysis framework that recovers this boundary automatically from firmware.

  • Conduct experiments to validate the framework.

  • Write a technical report.

Compensation:

The starting rate for this job is $20.

BACKGROUND CHECKS/CLEARANCES

Employment with the University will require successful completion of background check(s) in accordance with University policies.

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