Product Security Engineer – Ground Segment

Product Security Engineer – Ground Segment

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited course of study in engineering, engineering technology (includes manufacturing engineering technology), chemistry, physics, mathematics, data science, or computer science.
• (Level 2 – Bachelor’s degree and 2+ years’ experience or a Master’s) OR (Level 3 – Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years’ experience or Master’s and 3+ years) OR (Level 4 – Bachelor’s degree and 9+ years’ experience or Master’s and 7+ years)
• 1+ years’ experience in the development of avionics subsystems
• 1+ years’ experience in ability to identify new opportunities and engage with stakeholders to define, plan, resource and deliver solutions
• 1+ years’ experience in assisting with the development of cybersecurity philosophies, patterns, requirements, secure architectures and designs
• 1+ years’ experience in coordinating and presenting technical content to a diverse audience, as well as preparing technical documentation.

Responsibilities

• Work with the ground systems architecture, design and development from the conceptual platform level down to physical hardware for all required deployments
• Support the development, implementation, and sustainment of product security for systems, throughout the requirements, design, analysis, build, test, production, operations, support and sustainment lifecycle
• Coordinate with partners and system-of-systems product security counterparts for requirements, activities, artifacts, and solutions
• Coordinate with other engineering stakeholders – systems, software, and hardware – advising on the results of security analysis – to develop secure architectures and designs
• Assist in establishing, integrating standards and processes for product security engineering in support of embedded avionics development, and meet applicable program/certification requirements
• Utilize Risk Engineering digital thread to inform product requirements surrounding cyber survivability against specified cyber threats – by performing criticality, adversity, threat analysis for avionics systems
• Assist in risk reduction and technology maturation activities – where appropriate – resulting in innovative solutions in product and services offering
• Implements appropriate security controls and requirements per JSIG, DoD and ICD 503 RMF, NISPOM, or DoD Overprint to the NISPOM
• Support inputs for planning, scheduling, risks, issues, and opportunity activities for cyber security
• Travel (up to 10%) is required for meetings with customers, internal meetings, etc.

Preferred Qualifications

• Have or have held an active U.S. Security Clearance in the past 24 months
• A bachelor’s degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or a related field, advanced degree preferred
• Experience or education in cyber security incident response protocols (identification, impact assessment, containment, remediation, evidence handling, technical reporting, etc.) and safeguarding information.
• Experience developing or integrating ground or platform architectures
• Experience overseeing the design, development, and testing of engineering solutions, ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations
• Experience developing multi-layer security architectures (encryption, cross domain guards)
• Experience providing work instructions that support the design and documentation of system architectures to ensure accuracy, completeness, and compliance with customer specifications
• Experience in product cyber security for avionics systems and component level development
• Experience performing adversity (threat) analysis, security risk assessments, and maturing the analysis throughout the development lifecycle – to inform requirements, and design
• Experience generating product cyber security artifacts for customer/certifiers
• Security certification is desired (e.g. CISSP); please state/include on resume