Edge Security Engineer: Embedded Trust & Secure Systems

NestAi Oy; Tampere; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Occupational healthcare

Epassi Flex benefit (sports, culture,

Lunch benefit (25% tax-free)

Regular team lunches and all-hands

Mac or PC choice

Holiday allowance (50% of holiday pay)

Phone benefit

Job summary

NestAI is hiring for an edge software engineer to build secure software for unmanned and command systems. You will design authentication, secure deployment, and lifecycle management for devices and services, ensuring robust protection across the operational lifecycle.

The role emphasizes hands-on security engineering in embedded/mobile environments, with focus on secure interoperability, data provenance, and trusted interfaces. Collaboration with partners is essential.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on software security or platform security engineering experience.
• Experience with device identity, access control, secure communications, or service lifecycle management.
• Experience securing system integrations, data provenance, validation, or interoperability is valuable.
• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language in embedded or mobile software development (C++, Python, Kotlin or equivalent) and experience with Linux, networking, and deployment automation.
• Experience with embedded devices, robotics, mobile applications, cloud services, or fleet management is valuable.
• Able to ship practical improvements under deadline and explain trade-offs clearly.
• Experience in defence or other mission-critical systems is valuable

Responsibilities

• Design secure identity and access methods for devices, services, operators, and connected systems.
• Define how assets are securely enrolled, deployed, updated, monitored, and retired.
• Help establish secure communication, authorization, audit trails, and protection for sensitive interfaces and media services.
• Secure structured operational data as it moves between system boundaries.
• Ensure data origin, context, authority, timing, and traceability are preserved and cannot be silently or maliciously altered or replayed.
• Apply validation and clear trust rules so malformed or untrusted data cannot trigger sensitive actions.
• Review and improve protection against untrusted input, compromised devices, and misconfigured deployments.
• Build security checks, operational guidance, and incident support with partner teams.

Skills

Software security

Device identity & access

System integrations security

Embedded/mobile programming

Linux & networking

Delivery under deadlines

Defence/mission-critical domain

Job description

NestAI is hiring for an edge software engineer to build secure software for unmanned and command systems. You will design authentication, secure deployment, and lifecycle management for devices and services, ensuring robust protection across the operational lifecycle.

The role emphasizes hands-on security engineering in embedded/mobile environments, with focus on secure interoperability, data provenance, and trusted interfaces. Collaboration with partners is essential.