Senior Training Engineer: Product Security

The MathWorks, Inc.; Natick (MA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading software company in Massachusetts seeks a professional focused on training in product security. This role involves needs analysis, designing training programs, and collaborating with teams to improve security processes. Candidates should have a degree and relevant experience in software development, alongside strong communication and training skills. The position allows for a hybrid work model, balancing office and home environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 6 years of experience, or equivalent.
• Experience in software development organizations.
• Exceptional communication skills and ability to teach.

Responsibilities

• Conduct needs analysis for skill gaps in product security.
• Design training content and deliver workshops.
• Plan rollout of new security processes.
• Collaborate with leadership on security issues.
• Update and maintain security learning catalog.

Skills

Software security knowledge

Clear communication

Training experience

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Master's degree or PhD (preferred)

Job description

Job Summary

MathWorks has a hybrid work model that enables staff members to split their time between office and home. The hybrid model provides the advantage of having both in-person time with colleagues and flexible at-home life optimizations. Learn More: https://www.mathworks.com/company/jobs/resources/applying-and-interviewing.html#onboarding.

Are you passionate about providing learning and development on MathWorks productsecurity principles? Do you enjoy helping teams understand securedevelopment workflows, coding practices, threat modeling, and other principles? Are you interested in trainingnew staffmembers and coaching them as they apply security principles to their work? Do you enjoy implementing and improving processes that make products more secure?

You will work with an internal community that partners with managers and staff to capture and share security knowledge, create and deliver learning resources to help staff members buildexpertisein product security, and apply secure development practices throughout the software lifecycle. Additionally, you will focus on improving processes, standards, and skills that strengthen the security of MathWorks products.

MathWorks nurtures growth, appreciates inclusivity, encourages initiative, values teamwork, shares success, and rewards excellence.

Responsibilities

• Conduct thorough needs analysis toidentifyskill gaps and learning requirements related to product security, secure coding practices, and compliance standards. Evaluate whether training is theappropriate solution
• Design creative ways to train, coach, and support staff members’ product security learning, including secure development practices, secure coding, and more. For example, develop training content and deliver instructor-led sessions, workshops, and self-serve resources tailored to product security learning needs. Measure impact using Kirkpatrick Level 1–4 evaluations
• Facilitate organizational adoption of new security processes, tools, and standards through thoughtful change management strategies. Plan and conduct rollouts and help staff successfully adopt secure development practices. Report progress against business drivers to senior staff
• Develop a deep understanding of software security concepts, practices, and tools used at MathWorks and within the industry (e.g., threat modeling, secure coding guidelines, vulnerability management)
• Collaborate with senior leaders toidentifysecurity-related issues and opportunitiesimpactingDevelopment teams. Develop clear, well-scoped problem statements and drive related projects to completion
• Identifyinternal security experts and ensure key knowledge is captured and shared. Continuously review, catalog, and promote user-created security documentation and resources
• Continuously update andmaintainthe security learning catalog to ensure content quality, relevance, and alignment with emerging threats and best practices

Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree and 6 years of professional work experience (or a master's degree and 3 years of professional work experience, or a PhD degree, or equivalent experience) is required.

Additional Qualifications

• Experience in a software development organization and knowledge of software development lifecycle, software security or secure development workflows, agile methods. and object-oriented design
• Exceptional communication skills including clear and concise writing, an engaging presentation style and strong group facilitation skills
• Teaching or training experience in academia or industry setup
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate across teams and roles to get results and build strong relationships
• Ability to balancelarge numberof concurrent projects