Senior Principal Engineer, Vehicle Cybersecurity

Job Description

The Senior Principal Engineer provides technical thought leadership and hands-on execution in securing Connected, Autonomous, Shared, and Electrified (CASE) mobility solutions and digital services. This role focuses on end-to-end (E2E) vehicle ecosystem security, including embedded systems, cloud platforms, and mobile applications, ensuring privacy-by-design and security-by-design principles are embedded throughout.

Essential Functions

• Product cybersecurity technical thought leadership in the research, design, development, manufacturing, and/or operations of the Connected, Autonomous, Shared, and Electrified mobility solutions and digital services.
• Creation & facilitation of automotive threat analysis and risk assessment (TARA) for the end-to-end (E2E) vehicle ecosystem (embedded, cloud, mobile app).
• Individual contributor executing the roles and responsibilities of an engineering technical lead across multiple projects, processes, and teams. Support activities include:
  • Working with stakeholders to understand timeline, input/output, dependencies, etc.
  • Technical experience to understand any “impediments” the team may experience
  • Work with external stakeholders to remove “impediments” from the team
  • Hands-on work to complete TARA, system requirements, system reference architectures for E2E vehicle ecosystem
• Creation & facilitation of technical reference architectures to quickly enable biz divisions to implement solutions that align w/ privacy-by-design & security-by-design.
• Execute the roles and responsibilities of an individual contributor across multiple projects and teams independently with very little oversight required.
• Liaise with line of business leaders and general other risk functions to deliver program needs within business units.

Requirements

• Bachelor''s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Electrical Engineering, or a related field is strongly desired.
• 8+ years of experience in a security engineering role, with an emphasis on cybersecurity expertise with identifying risks & designing countermeasures for embedded systems, cloud systems, and mobile app.
• 4+ years of experience in automotive, manufacturing, internet of things (IOT), and/or software industries.
• Systems, hardware, and/or software engineering and cybersecurity subject matter expert with hands-on engineering development and technical leadership experience.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to create and present concepts and recommendations to technical peers and management.
• Strong technical competence in MS tool suite (i.e., Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
• Fluent in English (reading, writing, speaking) for business and technical discussions.

Preferred Skills

• OSCP, SANS/GIAC, CISSP, or other related/equivalent certification.
• Experience with compliance regulations/laws, security frameworks and standards (e.g., ISO/SAE 21434, NIST, HIPAA, ISO, COBIT, OWASP, ITIL, etc.)
• Experience with one or more of the following industries: law enforcement, defense, intelligence community, automotive, manufacturing, software.
• Fluent in Japanese (reading, writing, speaking) for business and technical discussions.

Key skills/competency

• Vehicle Cybersecurity
• Embedded Systems Security
• Cloud Platform Security
• Mobile Application Security
• Threat Analysis and Risk Assessment (TARA)
• Security-by-Design Principles
• Privacy-by-Design Principles
• Automotive Cybersecurity Standards (ISO/SAE 21434)
• Technical Leadership
• System Reference Architectures