Senior Embedded Security Engineer—Secret Clearance

Collins Aerospace; Largo (FL); Hybrid; USD 123,000 - 205,000; 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, within RTX, seeks a Principal Embedded Systems Security Engineer to support DoD East Florida programs in a hybrid Largo, FL setting. You will lead RMF/ATO activities, decompose cybersecurity requirements, and coordinate across engineering teams to secure embedded defense systems.

Active SECRET clearance is required. The role emphasizes system-level analysis, security documentation, and SV&V, with collaboration across software, hardware, and test disciplines.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 8 years of prior relevant experience, or an Advanced Degree in a related field and a minimum of 5 years of experience.
• U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance
• Active and transferable SECRET U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date
• Experience performing or leading cybersecurity or product security engineering activities for embedded, aerospace, defense, or other mission-critical systems
• Experience applying Risk Management Framework (RMF) processes to system certification, authorization, or security assessment activities
• Experience developing and reviewing technical security documentation, including security requirements, security assessments, certification artifacts, and verification documentation
• Experience decomposing, allocating, implementing, and verifying cybersecurity requirements across system architectures, interfaces, and components
• Experience leading or coordinating security-focused system verification and validation activities, including development of test strategies, test plans, procedures, test conduct, results analysis, and remediation recommendations
• Experience coordinating cybersecurity engineering activities across systems engineering, software, hardware, and test organizations

Responsibilities

• Lead RMF Authorization to Operate (ATO) and NSA Type 1 Cryptographic Certification activities, including planning, development and review of security documentation, assessment evidence, findings, and remediation activities
• Lead cybersecurity requirement decomposition, allocation, implementation, and verification across system-level architectures, interfaces, and major system components
• Perform system-level analysis of requirements, models, interfaces, and architectures to identify security vulnerabilities and establish security requirements, mitigations, and verification methods
• Lead security engineering participation in system design reviews and document system-level security risks, technical recommendations, and required corrective actions
• Lead integration of security requirements across systems engineering, software, hardware, and test disciplines and track security issues through implementation, verification, and closure
• Lead security-focused SV&V activities, including development of test strategies, test plans, test procedures, test cases, test conduct, results analysis, and remediation recommendations
• Coordinate cybersecurity engineering activities across multiple engineering disciplines and resolve security issues affecting system requirements, architecture, design, implementation, and verification
• Evaluate security threats, vulnerabilities, technologies, and applicable security guidance and determine impacts to system architectures, requirements, and certification activities
• Provide technical direction to other security engineers and review security engineering products, analyses, and verification results for assigned systems

Skills

RMF & ATO planning

Cybersecurity requirements

System architecture analysis

Security testing & verification

Cross-disciplinary coordination

Education

STEM degree

Advanced degree

Tools

DOORS

JIRA

Confluence

Cameo MBSE

Job description

Collins Aerospace, within RTX, seeks a Principal Embedded Systems Security Engineer to support DoD East Florida programs in a hybrid Largo, FL setting. You will lead RMF/ATO activities, decompose cybersecurity requirements, and coordinate across engineering teams to secure embedded defense systems.

Active SECRET clearance is required. The role emphasizes system-level analysis, security documentation, and SV&V, with collaboration across software, hardware, and test disciplines.