Key Responsibilities
- Lead cybersecurity architecture and engineering activities for embedded flight software, mission-critical systems, and supporting applications.
- Design and implement protections against unauthorized access, software exploitation, malicious modification, and cybersecurity threats.
- Develop and integrate secure boot, cryptographic key management, software signing, secure storage, authentication, and integrity verification mechanisms.
- Conduct threat modeling, attack surface analysis, vulnerability assessments, and cybersecurity risk evaluations across hardware and software interfaces.
- Define cybersecurity requirements, architecture, verification methods, and technical acceptance criteria.
- Collaborate with Software, Systems, Hardware, GNC, and Platform Engineering teams to integrate security protections without compromising mission performance, real-time constraints, or system safety.
- Lead product security testing, vulnerability remediation, penetration testing coordination, and cybersecurity verification activities.
- Establish secure software development practices and support automated security analysis within CI/CD pipelines.
- Develop cybersecurity technical documentation, security control evidence, risk assessments, and security engineering artifacts.
- Support customer technical reviews, cybersecurity assessments, and applicable DoD security requirements.
- Provide technical mentorship and guidance to engineering teams on secure architecture, secure coding, and embedded cybersecurity practices.
What Success Looks Like
The successful candidate will establish practical, effective cybersecurity protections that are integrated into Zone 5 products from initial architecture through deployment.
This individual will balance security, safety, performance, and operational requirements while ensuring our systems remain resilient against cyber threats, unauthorized access, and software vulnerabilities.
Level V: $176,000 - $223,000/yr.
Level VI: $196,000 - $250,000/yr.