US Company is hiring: Cybersecurity Engineer in California

Cybersecurity Engineer

Published 02.22.2025

Company: Safran Cabin
Job field: Architecture and systems engineering
Location: Huntington Beach, California, United States
Contract type: Permanent
Contract duration: Full-time
Required degree: Bachelor's Degree
Required experience: More than 5 years
Professional status: Employees / Staff
Spoken language(s): English Fluent
Salary range: $79,960 - $125,650 USD DOE

POWERED BY TEAMWORK. Are you ready to be part of a team that drives big ideas and even bigger wins? At Safran, we believe in the power of both collaboration and individual contributions. We understand that it takes diverse perspectives, problem-solving skills, dependability, and trust to push each other forward and achieve great success. For us, working here is more than just a job; it's a passion. There's the unique opportunity to lead the way in aerospace and defense and contribute to creating a safer and more sustainable world.

In the role of Cybersecurity Engineer, you'll play a pivotal part on our Engineering team. The Cybersecurity Engineer guides the design and development lifecycle for an embedded hardware/software cyber security stack that will provide the communications between Cabin products and aircraft systems. During the development process, this individual will be responsible for leading security risk assessments of embedded hardware and software to identify vulnerabilities and make iterative improvements to the embedded platform's security architecture. The Cybersecurity Engineer will develop embedded software that meets the highest cybersecurity standards, is highly motivated and passionate about security technologies.

The Cybersecurity Engineer is responsible for the design, development, verification and coordination of secure hardware, firmware, and communication architectures in embedded systems for connected cabin products.

This position contributes to our vision by:

1. Develop embedded software that meets the highest cyber security standards. Develop embedded protection systems written primarily in C/C++. Develop cryptographic architectures to facilitate secure system boot, communications and processing. Assist with definition of system design for software requirements, hardware functional interfaces, bus loading, and communication features. Assist with development and integration of Software Assurance measures and practice.
2. Design and implement security architectures and features for embedded hardware, software, and communications systems.
3. Perform security risk assessments, security scope definition, security architecture design, code audits and design reviews of embedded platforms throughout the secure development lifecycle.
4. Collaborate with product and engineering teams on security during design/development/testing.
5. Research and develop technical solutions to mitigate security risks.
6. Conduct research to identify new attack vectors against embedded products and services.

Job Requirements

We seek service-oriented team players with strong interpersonal skills and a positive attitude, adaptable to our innovative and evolving environment.

Education: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering/Electrical/Science/Math
Experience:

• A minimum of 5 years of professional experience in embedded software programming using C/C++ focused in security protocols.
• Cyber Security Certified or willing to obtain certification in CEH / CISM / CISSP / CompTIA or equivalent.
• Experience working with cryptographic protocols/libraries including secure boot implementation.
• Experience in publish-subscribe communications architectures (CoAP/MQTT).
• Experience in implementing security protocols for wireless networks (802.11/802.15.4/BLE).
• Experience with packet capture and analysis tools (Wireshark), thorough understanding of the HTTP, MQTT, CoAP protocols.
• Experience in NIST/NSA-approved cryptographic standards and methods.

Knowledge & Skills:

• Strong communication skills and interest in a pair programming environment.
• Demonstrated ability in leadership, excellent communication and organizational skills.
• Strong team member who inspires, innovates, and delivers results to add values and make a difference.
• Critical thinking with open to critique.
• Analytical thinking with ability to synthesize information and identify salient points.
• Ability to define problems, understands data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Demonstrates ability to work well in a cross-functional team environment.
• Detail-oriented, organized and work well independently and as part of a team.
• User-centric /customer-centric focused, embrace Agile XP practice, and possess a learning mindset.

Technical Skills:

• Design of security requirements and security controls for networks and embedded platforms.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity standards and best practices for embedded systems.
• Hardware and software security architecture design and integration.
• Secure configuration and implementation of networking and communications protocols.
• Threat modeling, system-level risk assessments, vulnerability analysis and research.
• Strong knowledge in routing, switching, firewalls, wireless controllers, and DNS.
• Strong knowledge of System Security Engineering (SSE) principles and process (e.g. NIST SP 800-161).

Specificity of the job

Traveling may be required.

This job posting has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by an employee within this position. The actual duties, responsibilities and qualifications may vary based on assignment or group.

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