Senior Embedded Security Engineer

Space is a war fighting domain. True Anomaly seeks those with the talent and ambition to build the technology that secures it.

OUR MISSION

True Anomaly delivers decisive capabilities for space superiority. We build autonomous spacecraft, advanced payloads, mission software, and space-based interceptors - enabling the U.S. and its Allies to secure the space environment and counter threats from the ultimate high ground.

OUR VALUES

• Be the offset.We create asymmetric advantages with creativity and ingenuity.
• What would it take? We challenge assumptions to deliver ambitious results.
• Its the people. Our team is our competitive advantage and we are better together.

YOUR MISSION

Your job is to find the weaknesses in our spacecraft before an adversary does. These vehicles operate in remote, contested environments, where a defect can mean loss of mission. Once one is on orbit you do not get it back, you do not get a patch window on your terms, and you do not get a second opinion. Your job is to find every weakness in the silicon, the firmware, the radios, and the software before the vehicle leaves the ground.

What survives your test program could become a mission failure on orbit.

You will take flight hardware apart, with physical access being the beginning of the exercise rather than the end of it. Once you are on the board, we expect you to pivot to the software and go for root. Chain the bugs, elevate, persist, and prove out the full path an adversary would take. You will deliver the findings and the reproducible test plans that show our flight software and hardware engineers exactly where they stand, then work alongside them to close what you found.

This is an ideal role for someone who works at the intersection of hardware and software security, who would rather break a system than read about it being broken, and who wants that work to matter on a vehicle that cannot be recalled. It carries significant technical ownership and direct access to the engineers building the vehicles.

This position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI security clearance.

Responsibilities

Own the capability

• Advance True Anomaly's hardware security lab: tooling selection, bench design, budget case, and test methodology
• Own the security test plan for spacecraft hardware, radios, and flight software, and the schedule it runs on

Hardware and radios

• Perform invasive and non-invasive hardware attacks against flight hardware: side-channel analysis, fault injection (voltage, clock, EM), chip desoldering and rework, decapping, and exploitation of embedded debug and bus interfaces (JTAG, SWD, UART, SPI, I2C)
• Extract and reverse engineer firmware across the architectures our hardware runs on
• Analyze wired and wireless protocols, including RF links, proprietary protocols, and spacecraft command and telemetry paths

Software

• Pivot from hardware access to software exploitation: identify memory corruption and logic flaws, chain them, and elevate toward full system control
• Build coverage-guided and protocol fuzzing harnesses (AFL++, lib Fuzzer) and emulation-based rigs (QEMU, Unicorn) to decouple testing from hardware availability
• Root-cause findings and develop proof-of-concept exploits that demonstrate real impact and drive remediation priority
• Assess post-exploitation impact and the effectiveness of isolation, key handling, and recovery mechanisms
• Conduct security code review of flight software in C/C++ alongside binary analysis

Close the loop

• Publish findings with reproducible test plans, retest after remediation, and build automated triage and coverage analysis to keep results legible at scale
• Work with flight software and hardware engineers to implement fixes across memory safety, secure boot, cryptographic key management, and…