Senior Firmware Security Engineer

Challenges waiting for you:

• Collaborate with our Product Engineering and Marketing teams on technical security concepts for products.
• Coordinate with Firmware Engineering teams on security requirements within products influencing aspects such as component selection relating to secure boot and roots of trust designs.
• Support Architect, lead security designs and develop, and maintain security features within firmware / software in Industrial Component products
• Collaborate with System Architects across product teams to continually improve our security design, development, and deployment processes.
• Coordinate internal & external security specifications compliance within product portfolio.
• Be part of an internal cyber security audit team to comply with the internal and external standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Computer Engineering. Post-graduate work in an applicable technical or managerial field is desirable.
• 5+ years of Embedded Product development teams responsible for delivering production quality firmware
• Have expert knowledge of embedded systems development concepts, including cross-platform development and build tools, bootloaders, kernel configuration, device drivers
• Know common bus protocols like I2C, SPI, and IPC.
• Comfortable using network protocol analyzers, logic analyzers, hardware debuggers, and source-level debuggers to troubleshoot problems at all layers of the stack.
• Have experience reading schematics and data sheets.
• Knowledge of Industrial Components, energy metering, power control, industrial communication protocols, and Rockwell Automation PLC’s is desired.
• Knowledge of IEC 62443.
• CISSP certified or similar.
• Experience with CAN, CAN Analyzers, CIP protocol, CAN-Open protocol and/or RS485
• Experienced with simple peripherals such as A/D, D/A, & general purpose IO
• Experienced with Communication protocols, such as IO Link, EtherNet/IP and wireless (Bluetooth)
• Experience writing device drivers.
• Experience with Trusted Platform Modules (TPM), Secure Boot, and cryptography fundamentals.

Nice to have

• Experience with Security Firmware Design, V-model practices or similar.
• Knowledge of web technologies databases, high-level languages (Ruby, JavaScript), frameworks (Rails, React), and architectural patterns. 
• Have familiar with evaluating security threats in Embedded Devices.
• Eager to hook up a logic analyzer to investigate issues with the boot chain.
• Delighted to break things in order to uncover security vulnerabilities.
• Demonstrated ability to partner across discipline, team, business, and organizational boundaries to resolve technical cyber security challenges
• Knowledge of secure coding & testing practices