Senior Principal Cybersecurity Engineer

Sr. Principal Security Engineer

Join Aptiv and help lead the automotive industry into a more resilient and assured cybersecurity future. Our team protects our customers from the most advanced threats affecting the automotive industry. Aptiv's Central Product Cybersecurity team is working to protect Aptiv products by executing security research and development activities.

As our Sr. Principal Security Engineer, you will focus primarily on developing novel cybersecurity capabilities into hardware and software. You will engage in vulnerability discovery and reverse engineering activities. Additionally, you will be interfacing with the production engineering teams, enhancing open-source firmware, experimenting with state-of-the-art technologies, and much more. Your contributions will ensure vehicles on the streets are protected from grave threats posed by criminals and terrorists.

• Research and develop production-ready cybersecurity capabilities, develop reverse engineering tools and other cyber research instrumentation.
• Develop, enhance and customize security capabilities, tooling and instrumentation.
• Communicate security research findings to production engineering teams around the world, ensuring integration into platforms and products.
• Collaborate with open-source organizations to ensure quality of our open-source cybersecurity stack, including making quality and feature improvements.
• Conduct experiments to test the limits of state-of-the-art technologies to uncover weaknesses and vulnerabilities.
• Translate research findings into patents, blog posts, and conference publications.
• Maintain an up-to-date awareness of offensive and defensive cybersecurity activities in the public/commercial domain and working to accelerate cyber operations as appropriate.
• Break down long-term efforts into discrete tasks that demonstrate incremental progress.
• Guide product teams through integration of new cybersecurity system designs and testing methodologies.
• Defend research viewpoints to senior and executive leadership by providing compelling information and evidence.

• 5+ years' experience in cybersecurity engineering, development of cryptographic libraries/protocol stacks, vulnerability research, or reverse engineering.
• 5+ years' experience with C, assembly (ARM, MIPS, RISC-V, Intel , proprietary architectures, etc.), or similar low-level/embedded development.
• 3+ years' experience with host-based virtualization (VMware workstation, QEMU-KVM, Xen, etc.) and emulation technologies (QEMU, Simics, etc.); conducting offensive cyber research such as vulnerability research and exploit development against embedded systems; scripting languages like Python in a Linux-like environment; and debugging embedded systems (JTAG, UART, proprietary debugging environment, etc.).
• Familiarity with embedded systems development and use of cryptography and/or communications implementations.
• Good organization, communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.
• A go-getter that is passionate to learn about new security vulnerabilities and develop assessment automation solutions.
• Interest and/or experience with bug bounties, capture-the-flag competitions.
• Experience proposing and executing independent research and development tasks and writing conference-level technical reports.
• Familiarity with version control systems and code review processes.

• Master's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or similar discipline.
• 2+ years' experience developing with automotive hardware and architectures (e.g., Tri Core).
• 2+ years' experience developing for FPGAs such as Xilinx, NXP, etc. and using their associated tool suites such as Vivado, etc.
• Familiarity with automotive communication systems (CAN, CAN-FD, automotive Ethernet, etc.).
• Familiarity with automotive operating systems such as SROS2 and software communications middleware DDS.
• Familiarity with Bluetooth, NFC, and/or Wi‑Fi implementations and communications.
• General understanding of circuit schematics, hardware data sheets, and/or logic design.
• Experience working as part of a cross-functional team to implement diverse…