Cybersecurity Senior Engineer

About the role

The Cybersecurity Engineer is a savvy practitioner for the field of cybersecurity in the global Automotive organization of HARMAN. This encompasses the active participation to product cybersecurity architecture reviews for hardware- / software design across multiple projects for Automotive customers. Support developers and architects with the relevant software tool know-how. Also contributions in the quotation phase to determine risks, assess threats and estimate cost and efforts for development, production and maintenance of customer solutions.

What you will do

• Participate in security design, implementation reviews and testing design activities for Harman automotive products
• Review and analyze cybersecurity aspects of embedded or cloud-based automotive systems, execute risk treatment plans by recommending state of the art security designs and controls
• Develop strong security knowledge and understanding through hands on security engineering work to support multiple Harman R&D teams
• Participate in secure design and code reviews for Harman automotive products
• Support domain experts with threat analysis and risk assessments for Harman automotive products
• Prepare security training material and conduct security trainings for internal and external teams
• Participate in design and implementation of security validation and verification tools
• Participate in security tools and technologies assessment as well as in definition of future products

• 4+ years of proven hands-on experience in security engineering
• Very analytical, strong problem-solving skills
• Understanding of basic security concepts (secure boot, encryption, authentication, identity management etc.)
• 4+ years of Industry or academic SW development experience with embedded environments in at least one of the following languages: C, C++, ASM
• Understanding of cybersecurity risk assessments terms and concepts
• Understanding of security testing methods and build testing plans
• Team-player with strong passion about cybersecurity and automotive
• B.Sc/ M.Sc or equivalent experience in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or Electrical Engineering

• Automotive security experience (preferably from Tier-1 or OEM)
• 4+ years of Hands-on SW development experience
• Knowledge of automotive-specific technologies (e.g. CAN, Automotive ethernet, diagnostics, SW updates, telematics etc.)
• Experience in IoT/Embedded systems security architecture or engineering
• Experience (self-learned or industry) with common offensive security tools
• Knowledge of OS security concepts
• Strong self-learner with very high motivation to develop and grow in the automotive security domain

• Willingness to travel up to 5% of the time

• Work in international teams with the biggest worldwide automotive customers
• Attractive salary package
• Training on the job and extensive technical trainings
• Further career development opportunities
• A great package of additional benefits such as
  • Flexible working time
  • Medical subscription
  • Free parking spaces
  • Meal tickets
  • Employee discounts on our HARMAN products (JBL, AKG, HARMAN Kardon)