Senior Robot Platform Security Engineer

VulnU; New York (NY); On-site; USD 185,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid parental leave

Retirement match

Equity

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Fauna Robotics, an Amazon company, in New York, is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to lead security engineering for the robot platform. You will drive security from boot chain to how data is handled, shaping secure defaults and incident response across hardware and cloud services.

The ideal candidate has shipped security features on connected devices and mentors teams while collaborating with AWS security teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience.
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture of new and existing systems.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience designing and shipping security or privacy controls in production software.
• Experience in robotics, automotive, connected home, or other domain where software runs on hardware in the field.
• Experience securing embedded Linux or Android at OS level: SELinux or AppArmor policy, service sandboxing, kernel hardening, or hardware-backed key storage.
• Experience with privacy engineering for camera, microphone, or location data, including on-device processing, anonymization, retention, and deletion.
• Experience with secure boot, device identity, or OTA update signing.
• Experience designing systems against a threat model and taking them through security review.
• Experience building and operating production services on AWS or another major cloud provider

Responsibilities

• Own security engineering for Fauna's robot platform: boot chain, operating system, on-device software, and updates.
• Build security into the robot's OS and software: secure boot, OS hardening, service isolation and access control, and on-device secrets.
• Design how the robot handles what it senses, including on-device processing and data minimization.
• Build secure defaults into the robot's shared libraries and its build and release pipeline.
• Lead secure design and review of Fauna's cloud services in partnership with Amazon's security and privacy teams.
• Lead incident response for the robot platform and drive fixes to root cause

Skills

Security engineering

Robotics

Cloud security

Leadership

OS hardening

Secure boot

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Job description

Fauna Robotics, an Amazon company, in New York, is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to lead security engineering for the robot platform. You will drive security from boot chain to how data is handled, shaping secure defaults and incident response across hardware and cloud services.

The ideal candidate has shipped security features on connected devices and mentors teams while collaborating with AWS security teams.