Aptive
Senior Principal Cybersecurity Engineer
Troy, MI - USA · Principal
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 7 days ago
PythonCode ReviewLinuxCybersecurityEmbedded SystemsElectrical EngineeringControlsResearchLeadershipCommunicationCollaboration
About the role
- Aptiv's Central Product Cybersecurity team is working to protect Aptiv products by executing security research and development activities.
- You will engage in vulnerability discovery and reverse engineering activities.
- Additionally, you will be interfacing with the production engineering teams, enhancing open-source firmware, experimenting with state-of-the-art technologies, and much more.
Responsibilities
- Research and develop production-ready cybersecurity capabilities, develop reverse engineering tools and other cyber research instrumentation
- Develop, enhance and customize security capabilities, tooling and instrumentation
- Collaborate with open-source organizations to ensure quality of our open-source cybersecurity stack, including making quality and feature improvements
- Maintain an up-to-date awareness of offensive and defensive cybersecurity activities in the public/commercial domain and working to accelerate cyber operations as appropriate
- Guide product teams through integration of new cybersecurity system designs and testing methodologies
- Aptiv provides an inclusive work environment where all individuals can grow and develop, regardless of gender, ethnicity or beliefs.
- You have support.
Requirements
- 5+ years' experience in cybersecurity engineering, development of cryptographic libraries/protocol stacks, vulnerability research, or reverse engineering
- 5+ years' experience with C, assembly ( ARM, MIPS, RISC-V, Intel x86_64, proprietary architectures, etc.), or similar low-level /embedded development
- 3+ years' experience with: 1) host-based virtualization (VMware workstation, QEMU-KVM, Xen, etc.) and emulation technologies (QEMU, Simics, etc.)
- Familiarity with embedded systems development and use of cryptography and/or communications implementations
- Interest and/or experience with bug bounties, capture-the-flag competitions, etc.
- Experience proposing and executing independent research and development tasks and writing conference-level technical reports
- Familiarity with version control systems and code review processes
Nice to have
- Master's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or similar discipline
- Familiarity with automotive communication systems (CAN, CAN-FD, automotive Ethernet, etc.)
- Familiarity with automotive operating systems such as SROS2 and software communications middleware DDS
- Familiarity with Bluetooth, NFC, and/or Wi-Fi implementations and communications
- Experience representing technical viewpoints to diverse audiences and in making timely and prudent technical risk decisions
- High level of oral and written communication skills
- Ability to communicate and present complex issues and ideas with precision and clarity, adjusting appropriately for the audience
- ability to communicate effectively up to the Vice President level
Skills
- Principal Security Engineer
- Your contributions will ensure vehicles on the streets are protected from grave threats posed by criminals and terrorists.
Benefits
- Private health care effective day 1 of employment
- Paid Time Off (Holidays, Vacation, Designated time off, Parental leave)
- Learning and development opportunities
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Fertility Coverage
This listing is sourced directly from Aptive's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.