Embedded Systems Security Engineer (Secret Clearance)

Prattwhitney; Largo (FL); On-site; USD 87,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Three weeks of vacation

401(k) plan with employer matching

Job summary

Collins Aerospace, RTX company, seeks a Sr. Embedded Systems Security Engineer to support DoD programs and international customers, focusing on RMF, ATO, and cyber security for safety-critical systems.

Onsite in Largo, FL or Marlborough, MA, active SECRET clearance required. The role emphasizes requirement allocation, architecture analysis, vulnerability assessment, and verification activities across engineering teams to ensure robust security design and compliant documentation for government

Qualifications

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 5 years of prior relevant experience
• Active and transferable SECRET U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date
• Experience performing cybersecurity or product security engineering activities for embedded, aerospace, defense, or other mission-critical systems
• Experience developing or executing security-focused system verification and validation activities, including test plans, procedures, test conduct, and results analysis
• Experience applying RMF processes to system certification, authorization, or security assessment activities
• Experience decomposing, allocating, implementing, and verifying cybersecurity requirements using systems engineering practices

Responsibilities

• Perform RMF Authorization to Operate (ATO) and NSA Type 1 Cryptographic Certification activities, including development and maintenance of required security documentation, evidence, and assessment artifacts
• Perform cybersecurity requirement decomposition, allocation, implementation, and verification across assigned system components and interfaces using systems engineering practices
• Analyze system requirements, models, interfaces, and architectures to identify security vulnerabilities, develop mitigation recommendations, and maintain traceability between security requirements and system implementation
• Lead security engineering inputs for assigned system design reviews and document security risks, requirements, recommendations, and resolution status
• Coordinate with systems engineers and software/hardware developers to integrate security requirements into system designs and track security issues through verification and closure
• Develop and execute security-focused Software Verification & Validation activities, including test plans, test procedures, test cases, test conduct, results documentation, and remediation analysis
• Coordinate assigned cybersecurity engineering activities across systems engineering, software, hardware, and test organizations and provide status and technical findings to program leadership
• Assess applicable security threats, vulnerabilities, and industry practices and evaluate their impact on assigned system architectures, requirements, and implementations

Skills

Security engineering

RMF

Embedded systems

System verification

Threat analysis

Traceability

Education

STEM degree

Advanced degree

Tools

DOORS

JIRA

Confluence

CAMEO MBSE

Nessus

eMASS

SCC

NMAP

Job description

Collins Aerospace, RTX company, seeks a Sr. Embedded Systems Security Engineer to support DoD programs and international customers, focusing on RMF, ATO, and cyber security for safety-critical systems.

Onsite in Largo, FL or Marlborough, MA, active SECRET clearance required. The role emphasizes requirement allocation, architecture analysis, vulnerability assessment, and verification activities across engineering teams to ensure robust security design and compliant documentation for government