Senior Embedded Cybersecurity Engineer for Automotive

Aptiv; Troy (MI); On-site; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health care

Life and accident insurance

Paid Time Off

Tuition Reimbursement

Adoption Assistance

Fertility Coverage

Job summary

Aptiv is seeking a Sr. Principal Security Engineer to advance cybersecurity capabilities across hardware and software platforms. You will lead vulnerability research, reverse engineering, and integration with production teams worldwide to fortify automotive systems.

Responsibilities include developing tooling, communicating findings, and contributing to patents and publications. The role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration, state-of-the-art experiments, and proactive risk reduction in

Qualifications

• 5+ years in cybersecurity engineering and reverse engineering.
• Strong low-level/embedded development with C/assembly.
• Experience with host-based virtualization (VMware, QEMU-KVM) and debugging embedded systems.

Responsibilities

• Research and develop production-ready cybersecurity capabilities and tooling.
• Develop, enhance and customize security capabilities, tooling and instrumentation.
• Communicate research findings to production engineering teams worldwide.
• Collaborate with open-source projects to improve and extend the open-source cybersecurity stack.
• Conduct experiments to test state-of-the-art technologies to uncover weaknesses.
• Translate research findings into patents, blog posts, and conference publications.
• Maintain awareness of offensive/defensive cybersecurity activities in public/commercial domain.
• Break down long-term efforts into discrete tasks and show incremental progress.
• Guide product teams through integration of new cybersecurity designs and testing methodologies.
• Defend research viewpoints to senior leadership with clear evidence.

Skills

Cybersecurity engineering

Reverse engineering

Vulnerability research

C

Assembly

Embedded development

Python scripting

VMware/QEMU virtualization

Debugging embedded systems

Version control

Communication

Education

Master's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Vivado

Xilinx/FPGA toolchains

Job description

Aptiv is seeking a Sr. Principal Security Engineer to advance cybersecurity capabilities across hardware and software platforms. You will lead vulnerability research, reverse engineering, and integration with production teams worldwide to fortify automotive systems.

Responsibilities include developing tooling, communicating findings, and contributing to patents and publications. The role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration, state-of-the-art experiments, and proactive risk reduction in