Aptiv - Cupertino, CA
posted 4 months ago
As a Senior Principal Product Cybersecurity Engineer at Aptiv, you will play a pivotal role in advancing automotive cybersecurity solutions. Your primary focus will be on innovating automotive cybersecurity compute platforms through conducting novel research, developing prototype systems, and interfacing with production engineering teams. You will experiment with state-of-the-art technologies and deploy offensive cyber capabilities to test the defensive resiliency of our systems. Your contributions will be crucial in ensuring that vehicles on the roads and the systems they connect to are protected from sophisticated threats, including directed nation-state attacks. In your daily responsibilities, you will perform offensive evaluations against the latest automotive prototype hardware and software security technologies. This includes developing proof-of-concept exploits and persistence agents to simulate adversary capabilities, which will assist your peers in developing detection and response capabilities. You will create implementation strategies for the development of prototypes and demonstrations that showcase cyberattacks against automotive solutions. Additionally, you will propose and execute independent cybersecurity R&D projects to enhance your skillset while furthering Aptiv's technological understanding. You will work collaboratively with team members to record videos of cyber-hardened products and identify open-source technologies to extend their capabilities to target automotive technology stacks. Your role will also involve working with global engineering teams to transition developed technologies to production engineering teams worldwide. You will conduct experiments to test the limits of state-of-the-art software and embedded systems technologies, generating reference implementations that can be utilized across various projects. Furthermore, you will evaluate third-party vendor cybersecurity solutions for their suitability within Aptiv's technology portfolio and author whitepapers or technical documentation that may lead to peer-reviewed publications and presentations at cybersecurity conferences. Your position will require you to stay abreast of offensive and defensive cybersecurity activities in the public and commercial domains, tracking and collaborating with your team to design innovative solutions as appropriate. You will serve as a technical consultant for cybersecurity evaluations and assessments, guiding product teams through the integration of new cybersecurity system designs and validation methodologies. Your ability to dissect larger projects into manageable sub-tasks will be essential in demonstrating incremental progress on a monthly to bi-monthly basis. Lastly, you will be expected to defend your viewpoints by providing compelling information and evidence, ensuring that Aptiv remains at the forefront of automotive cybersecurity innovation.