Senior Cybersecurity Validation Engineer

McLaren Automotive Ltd; Bicester; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Enhanced pension scheme

Discretionary annual bonus

Private medical insurance

Life assurance

Employee assistance programme

Job summary

McLaren Automotive Ltd. is seeking an experienced Cyber Security Validation engineer to deliver validation activities across vehicle systems.

You will define strategies, coordinate functional and penetration testing, and ensure traceability of requirements to evidence in line with regulatory standards. Joining a collaborative, cross-functional team, you will work with systems, software, and test engineering to uphold programme timing while driving continuous improvement of validation processes

Qualifications

• Extensive automotive cybersecurity engineering experience.
• Strong understanding of verification & validation across vehicle development.
• Experience with threat modeling and attack-path assessment.
• Ability to trace requirements to verification methods and evidence.
• Skilled in coordinating cross-functional teams and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define validation strategies for cybersecurity features across vehicle systems.
• Coordinate and deliver cybersecurity verification activities (functional, integration, robustness, penetration).
• Ensure traceability from requirements to test cases and results with evidence for compliance.
• Diagnose and resolve complex cybersecurity validation issues with internal and external teams.
• Support continuous improvement of cybersecurity validation artefacts, methods, and tools.

Skills

Automotive cybersecurity

Validation & verification

Threat analysis

Requirements traceability

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Engineering degree

Cybersecurity certification

Job description

McLaren Automotive Ltd. is seeking an experienced Cyber Security Validation engineer to deliver validation activities across vehicle systems.

You will define strategies, coordinate functional and penetration testing, and ensure traceability of requirements to evidence in line with regulatory standards. Joining a collaborative, cross-functional team, you will work with systems, software, and test engineering to uphold programme timing while driving continuous improvement of validation processes