Senior Principal Engineer

The Senior Principal Engineer provides technical thought leadership and hands-on execution in securing Connected, Autonomous, Shared, and Electrified (CASE) mobility solutions and digital services. This role focuses on end-to-end (E2E) vehicle ecosystem security, including embedded systems, cloud platforms, and mobile applications, ensuring privacy-by-design and security-by-design principles are embedded throughout.

Essential Functions:

•Product cybersecurity technical thought leadership in the research, design, development, manufacturing, and/or operations of the Connected, Autonomous, Shared, and Electrified mobility solutions and digital services.

•Creation & facilitation of automotive threat analysis and risk assessment (TARA) for the end-to-end (E2E) vehicle ecosystem (embedded, cloud, mobile app).

•Individual contributor executing the roles and responsibilities of an engineering technical lead across multiple projects, processes, and teams. Support activities include:

oWorking with stakeholders to understand timeline, input/output, dependencies, etc.

oTechnical experience to understand any “impediments” the team may experience

oWork with external stakeholders to remove “impediments” from the team

oHands-on work to complete TARA, system requirements, system reference architectures for E2E vehicle ecosystem

•Creation & facilitation of technical reference architectures to quickly enable biz divisions to implement solutions that align w/ privacy-by-design & security-by-design.

•Execute the roles and responsibilities of an individual contributor across multiple projects and teams independently with very little oversight required.

•Liaise with line of business leaders and general other risk functions to deliver program needs within business units.

Requirements

•Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Electrical Engineering, or a related field is strongly desired.

•8+ years of experience in a security engineering role, with an emphasis on cybersecurity expertise with identifying risks & designing countermeasures for embedded systems, cloud systems, and mobile app.

•4+ years of experience in automotive, manufacturing, internet of things (IOT), and/or software industries

•Systems, hardware, and/or software engineering and cybersecurity subject matter expert with hands-on engineering development and technical leadership experience.

•Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to create and present concepts and recommendations to technical peers and management.

•Strong technical competence in MS tool suite (i.e., Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)

•Fluent in English (reading, writing, speaking) for business and technical discussions

Preferred Skills:

•OSCP, SANS/GIAC, CISSP, or other related/equivalent certification

•Experience with compliance regulations/laws, security frameworks and standards (e.g., ISO/SAE 21434, NIST, HIPAA, ISO, COBIT, OWASP, ITIL, etc.)

•Experience with one or more of the following industries: law enforcement, defense, intelligence community, automotive, manufacturing, software.

•Fluent in Japanese (reading, writing, speaking) for business and technical discussions.