Senior Aerospace Cybersecurity Architect

Senior Aerospace Cybersecurity Architect

At ICEYE, we design, build and operate the largest fleet of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites in the world. Using advanced technology, our constellation collects topographical data about any location on Earth, day or night, through any weather conditions.

Headquartered in Southern California, our customers are society’s heroes - intelligence professionals, warfighters, first responders, and scientific researchers. As a trusted mission partner, the United States and its allies depend on us for critical information when it matters most.

The Aerospace Cybersecurity Architect is responsible for defining and advancing the security architecture for ICEYE US satellites, ground infrastructure, mission systems, communications, and supporting technologies throughout their lifecycle. This role serves as the primary cybersecurity architecture partner to aerospace software architecture, satellite operations, mission architecture, and engineering teams, ensuring cybersecurity requirements and security-by-design principles are incorporated into system and mission design from inception through operations.

The Aerospace Cybersecurity Architect evaluates cyber risk across space, ground, communications, embedded, cloud, and operational technology environments and develops scalable, risk-informed architecture solutions to mitigate identified threats and vulnerabilities. The role provides technical cybersecurity guidance for system interfaces, trust boundaries, data flows, communications pathways, and mission-critical components while ensuring alignment with applicable customer, contractual, regulatory, and cybersecurity requirements. This position is critical to protecting ICEYE US mission capabilities and establishing resilient security architectures capable of supporting evolving operational and national security requirements.

• Define, design, and maintain cybersecurity architectures for satellites, ground stations, mission systems, communications infrastructure, and supporting aerospace technologies.

• Establish cybersecurity architecture principles, security patterns, technical requirements, and design standards for aerospace and mission environments.

• Integrate cybersecurity requirements and security-by-design principles into system architecture, software development, Dev Sec Ops , satellite operations, and mission design processes.

• Perform architecture-level cybersecurity risk assessments, threat modeling, attack-surface analysis, and security design reviews for aerospace and mission systems.

• Analyze system trust boundaries, interfaces, data flows, communications pathways, authentication mechanisms, and dependencies to identify cybersecurity risks and architecture weaknesses.

• Identify and assess vulnerabilities affecting embedded systems, operational technology (OT), communications systems, ground infrastructure, mission applications, and supporting cloud environments.

• Develop architecture-level security controls and mitigation strategies for new aerospace technologies, systems, interfaces, communications pathways, and mission capabilities.

• Conduct and support technical security assessments, vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, architecture validation, and security testing of aerospace and mission systems.

• Serve as the cybersecurity architecture partner to software architecture, satellite operations, IT, Dev Ops, engineering, and cybersecurity teams throughout system design and implementation.

• Evaluate cybersecurity risks associated with APIs, external interconnections, third-party integrations, supply chain components, hardware, software, and supporting technologies.

• Define and review security requirements for identity,…