Edge Software Security Engineer — Secure Unmanned Systems

NestAI; Helsinki; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Occupational healthcare (Mehiläinen)

Flex benefit (Epassi)

Lunch benefit

Team lunches

Choice of Mac or PC

Holiday allowance

Phone benefit

Job summary

NestAI is seeking engineers to join the Edge Software team, building secure software for unmanned and command systems. You will design and implement how devices, services, operators, and connected products are trusted across their lifecycle.

Primary focus is on embedded and mobile devices with emphasis on secure deployment, fleet management, and secure interoperability between systems. This hands-on product engineering role requires delivering practical improvements under deadline.

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 and experience with Linux, networking, and deployment automation.
• Experience with embedded devices, robotics, mobile applications, cloud services, or fleet management 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

Secure communications

Service lifecycle

Interoperability

Embedded/mobile development

C/C++

Python

Kotlin

Linux

Networking

Deployment automation

Defence domain

Job description

NestAI is seeking engineers to join the Edge Software team, building secure software for unmanned and command systems. You will design and implement how devices, services, operators, and connected products are trusted across their lifecycle.

Primary focus is on embedded and mobile devices with emphasis on secure deployment, fleet management, and secure interoperability between systems. This hands-on product engineering role requires delivering practical improvements under deadline.