Design Obfuscation for Trusted Chip Fabrication

This research position focuses on developing a hardware security design methodology that will be used to obfuscate CMOS IC designs fabricated at untrusted foundries. The Army Research Laboratory Research Associateship Program (ARL-RAP) is designed to significantly increase the involvement of creative and highly trained scientists and engineers from academia and industry in scientific and technical areas of interest and relevance to the Army. This postdoctoral fellowship opportunity seeks a motivated candidate with in-depth knowledge of ASIC design flow, scripting languages such as TCL and Python, and experience with EDA tools for simulation, synthesis, place and route, custom layout and signoff works. Prior research experience in the area of hardware security is preferable. Scientists and Engineers at the DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory help shape and execute the Army's program for meeting the challenge of developing technologies that will support Army forces in meeting future operational needs by pursuing scientific research and technological developments in diverse fields including applied mathematics, atmospheric characterization, simulation and human modeling, digital/optical signal processing, nanotechnology, material science and technology, and computational and information sciences.