Listing Description

Aurora hires talented people with diverse backgrounds who are ready to help build a transportation ecosystem that will make our roads safer, get crucial goods where they need to go, and make mobility more efficient and accessible for all. Aurora’s Product Security team’s mission is to discover, mitigate, and prevent security risks in the software, hardware, and services developed by Aurora.

Our team is responsible for ensuring the secure design and implementation of secure technologies used by the Aurora Driver as well as continually improving the assurance levels of security across all of Aurora’s Products.  This team is also responsible for developing, contributing and documenting security engineering processes and the resulting product security requirements used by the company. Additionally team members support and perform technical security assessments, threat modeling, security code reviews and vulnerability testing to highlight and document risks. This team works closely with engineers across Aurora as well as 3rd party partners to design and proactively integrate initiatives to enhance security across a wide variety of software or hardware domains and technology stacks. We are searching for an experienced Security Engineer with strong automotive security assessment experience that is excited to lead the assurance of the overall security posture for the autonomous vehicle platform to join us on this mission.

In this role, you will

• Provide consulting and advisory services to engineering teams heavily focused on automotive cybersecurity


• Work directly with engineering and non-engineering teams to drive improvements in internal processes, procedures and technical fundamentals


• Develop, document, improve, implement and execute cybersecurity best practices and processes for autonomous vehicles across internal and external engineering partners


• Perform technical automotive cybersecurity assessments and reviews, research, uncover, and reproduce vulnerabilities, design secure protocols and systems, and write tests and fuzzers to drive architecture changes


• Assess the risks across the Aurora Driver Platform and prioritize high value components (software and/or hardware) for critical and high security vulnerabilities


• Conduct research to identify new and novel attack vectors against Aurora’s products and services


• Review, develop and document secure operational best practices, and provide security guidance for engineers and various internal and external partners


• Lead successful integration of security capabilities, components and remediation work with partner teams


• Further develop, refine, and establish methods, processes and new products in automotive cybersecurity


• Work with Engineering teams and OEMs to ensure successful security assurance of the Aurora Driver platform


• Guide, mentor and train both security and non-security engineers 

Required Qualifications

• Foundational knowledge of Automotive Cybersecurity (ISO21434/UNECE/NHTSA)


• Foundational knowledge of operating system security for Linux


• Foundational knowledge of the CWE Top 25


• Develop, document and execute structured processes and procedures around automotive cybersecurity 


• Ability to assess software and/or hardware components with and without full knowledge


• Ability to work well with other assessment members and engineering partners


• Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences


• Experience in one or more of the following: risk assessment, threat modeling, incident and emergency response, OS hardening, vulnerability management, pentesting, offensive security or cryptographic protocols and concepts


• Experience in vulnerability discovery and analysis, design review, and code-level security reviews


• Experience in, and technical knowledge of security engineering, computer and network security, authentication and security protocols, and applied cryptography.


• Experience with assessment, development, implementation, and documentation of a comprehensive and broad set of security technologies and processes


• Familiarity with automotive protocols and security standards


• Experience in Security Assurance / Secure-SDLC processes in an agile / waterfall environment


• Experience building and evaluating threat models / risk assessments


• Experience and ability to implement best practices related to cryptographic protocols, infrastructure and network security


• Minimum 8 years of experience in a security-specific or security-adjacent industry


• Minimum 2 years of experience in the robotics or automotive industry or equivalent

Desirable Qualifications

• Relevant automotive cybersecurity work experience


• Relevant experience with Automotive Cybersecurity Frameworks (ISO21434/UNECE/NHTSA)


• Relevant work experience in offensive security, penetration testing or red teaming


• Experience implementing various Defense in Depth Strategies to address dynamic threats across various software and hardware stacks.


• Ability and desire to write production-quality code in C++, Golang, or Python


• Experience evaluating the security of software, hardware and services


• Foundational knowledge of embedded firmware security and hardware security, preferably in the robotics or automotive space


• Familiarity with cloud security (AWS) and infrastructure-as-code


• Familiarity with Trusted Platform Modules, HSMs, and trusted boot


• A history of giving back to the security industry via open source contributions, published papers, or conference presentations

The base salary range for this position is $198-$317K per year. Aurora’s pay ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, the successful candidate’s starting base pay will be determined based on factors including job-related skills, experience, qualifications, relevant education or training, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future. The successful candidate will also be eligible for an annual bonus, equity compensation, and benefits. 

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