# Senior Engineer, Cybersecurity (R5972)

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: Washington, D.C.
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full Time Employee
**Salary**: USD 110,000-170,000 per-year-salary
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Shield AI is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer to lead cybersecurity activities for an airborne aerospace and defense platform. This role integrates cybersecurity across avionics, mission systems, aircraft networks, communications, embedded software, and ground-support systems.

Responsibilities:

- Develop the platform's cybersecurity architecture, requirements, and protection strategy.

- Perform threat modeling, vulnerability assessments, attack-surface analysis, and cyber risk assessments.

- Define protections for secure boot, authentication, access control, encryption, key management, software updates, and data communications.

- Apply defense-in-depth across aircraft systems, networks, radios, data links, and external interfaces.

- Lead DoD Risk Management Framework activities and develop required authorization evidence.

- Evaluate hardware, software, firmware, and supplier designs for cybersecurity risks.

- Develop cybersecurity verification plans and support vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, and cyber-resiliency testing.

- Coordinate risk mitigation and corrective actions with engineering teams, suppliers, customers, and program leadership.

- Ensure cybersecurity solutions support aircraft safety, availability, and mission effectiveness.

Required qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in cybersecurity, computer engineering, electrical engineering, software engineering, systems engineering, or a related field.

- Typically seven or more years of relevant cybersecurity or systems security experience.

- Experience with aircraft, aerospace, defense, or other mission-critical embedded systems.

- Knowledge of avionics, mission systems, platform networks, communications, or data links.

- Experience with threat modeling, secure system architecture, vulnerability analysis, and security testing.

- Familiarity with DoD RMF, NIST security guidance, cryptography, and key management.

- Strong technical leadership, writing, and customer communication skills.

- Ability to obtain and maintain the required security clearance.

Preferred qualifications:

- Cybersecurity experience on military aircraft, unmanned aircraft, or airborne mission systems.

- Familiarity with NIST SP 800-53, NIST SP 800-160, DO-326A, DO-355, and DO-356A.

- Experience with anti-tamper, program protection, supply-chain risk management, or cross-domain solutions.

- Experience supporting cyber testing, penetration testing, or adversarial assessments.

- Relevant certification such as CISSP, Security+, CEH, or GIAC.

- Active U.S. security clearance.

Additional Information:

- Salary: USD 110,000-170,000 per-year-salary

- Full-time regular employee offer package: Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity

- Temporary employee offer package: Pay within range listed above + temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)

## Skills

### Required
- cybersecurity
- computer engineering
- electrical engineering
- software engineering
- systems engineering
- threat modeling
- secure system architecture
- vulnerability analysis
- security testing
- DoD RMF
- NIST security guidance
- cryptography
- key management

### Nice to have
- cybersecurity experience on military aircraft
- unmanned aircraft
- airborne mission systems
- NIST SP 800-53
- NIST SP 800-160
- DO-326A
- DO-355
- DO-356A
- anti-tamper
- program protection
- supply-chain risk management
- cross-domain solutions
- cyber testing
- penetration testing
- adversarial assessments
- CISSP
- Security+
- CEH
- GIAC

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