Form Energy
Senior Staff Security Engineer
Berkeley, CA · Staff+ · Full-time
No sponsorship$160k-$800kDetected 16 hours ago
GoRustC++LinuxRESTCybersecurityEmbedded SystemsZero TrustCommunication
About the role
- You will be designing systems that have to remain secure for operational lifetimes of decades.
Responsibilities
- architect and implement custom transport wrapping where standard frameworks fall short under physical hardware constraints.
- Cryptographic Disruption Handling: Build defensive state machines that maintain absolute system integrity during prolonged network blackouts-specifically solving for offline replay prevention, asynchronous certificate validity management, key expiration limits, and secure local data-at-rest queuing.
- Adversarial Threat Modeling: Design architectural and software boundaries tailored to withstand Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) and nation-state actors targeting the bulk power system.
- Security Engineering: 2+ years experience directly related to building security tooling
- Asynchronous Protocol Architecture: Evaluate, test, and adapt existing Delay-Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN) standards; architect and implement custom transport wrapping where standard frameworks fall short under physical hardware constraints.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in Cyber Security, including positions that require architect-level decisions.
- Applied Cryptography: Practical expertise in symmetric/asymmetric cryptographic primitives, mutual TLS, secure session state management, and designing robust API boundaries for distributed edge-to-cloud systems.
- Application Security: 2+ years of Application Security experience (finding flaws in bespoke software)
- Systems Programming: 5+ years of experience writing production-grade, optimized code in C, C++, or Rust
- Clearance Note: No active U.S. government security clearance is required for this role.
- 5+ years of experience writing production-grade, optimized code in C, C++, or Rust
- No active U.S. government security clearance is required for this role.
Nice to have
- Prior experience designing high-assurance systems within the Aerospace, Defense, Financial, Semiconductor Security, High-Assurance Consultancies, or the Intelligence Community (IC) sectors.
- Embedded Programming within resource-constrained environments (embedded Linux, RTOS, or bare-metal targets).
- Exposure to network resilience strategies, store-and-forward mechanics, mesh topologies, or formal DTN protocol definitions (e.g., Bundle Protocol).
- Familiarity with the mathematical intent behind formal verification frameworks, protocol simulation tools, or abstract interpretation engines.
- Experience with Go inside modern cloud-scale data ingestion and optimization environments.
- This starts from day one.
- Requests for accommodations will be treated with discretion.
- Form Energy is committed to maintaining the privacy of our applicants.
Compensation
- Humanity is a cornerstone of Form Energy's culture, and we make sure our compensation and benefits reflect that.
Visa & Work Authorization
- government security clearance is required for this role
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