Networking & Distributed Systems Researcher – Product Security Engineer
BoeingAbout the role
Job Description
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The Boeing Company is currently seeking a Product Security Engineer to support our Product Security Organization team located in Huntington Beach, CA. This position will focus on supporting the Boeing Research & Technology (BR&T).
This position is for a networking and distributed systems researcher who will join the Product Security Organization within Boeing Research & Technology (BR&T) to conduct Networking and Cyber Security research.
This position, within the Product Security Organization, involves supporting, leading, and developing software for new networking and cyber security concepts across tactical mobile ad-hoc network protocols, sensor protocols, airborne network overlays, or network management technologies. And mature the concepts and software to prove the feasibility of new network technologies, build prototypes to demonstrate the capability, and test and evaluate prototypes in relevant environments.
Understanding and meeting the requirements of management, peers, customers, and product security stakeholders is essential for this role. The successful candidate must have excellent interpersonal and communication skills and be able to work effectively in a dynamic team environment spanning research and product teams. Additionally, they will need to facilitate the successful and secure transition of technology from the research environment to Boeing programs and external customers.
The successful candidate will be capable of utilizing software tools to program in C, C++, Python, and shell scripts. Experience with routing and transport protocols, network-oriented middleware, wireless and satellite networking systems, networking for embedded systems, tactical communications systems, network management, Quality of Service (QoS), and traffic engineering is highly desirable.
Demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality implementation, testing, and documentation results on past projects should be a key to selection. Experience with developing hardware abstraction layer designs and firmware is desirable. Being self-motivated, positive, and enjoying research-oriented projects while being challenged to learn new things is essential.
Position Responsibilities:
Serve as a lead product security engineer for new concepts across tactical mobile ad-hoc network protocols, sensor protocols, airborne network overlays, or network management technologies
Responsible for maturing the concepts and software to prove the feasibility of new network and cyber security technologies
Responsible for building of secure prototypes to demonstrate the capability, and the test and evaluation of prototypes in relevant environments
Drive software execution to deliver products on-cost and on-schedule to programs
Responsible for software product security, safety, assurance, quality, and engineering excellence, including alignment with PSO policies, controls, and best practices
Drive first time quality in all phases of software development lifecycle
Collaborate across multidisciplinary teams to integrate security-by-design into distributed networking systems and prototypes
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