# Principal Engineer - Cybersecurity R&D

**Company**: Hewlett Packard Enterprise
**Location**: San Juan, Puerto Rico
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Principal Engineer to provide technical leadership and help build a team that will operate at the frontier of cybersecurity, as part of the Junos Cybersecurity R&D organization in the HPE Networking business unit.

The mission of Cybersecurity R&D is to collaborate across functions to build and sustain secure routers, switches, and firewalls running Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved.

Responsibilities:

- Support security certifications including NIST FIPS 140, Common Criteria, and the European Union Cybersecurity Resilience Act (EUCRA)

- Drive the development and enhancement of product security capabilities including certification gap analysis, risk-based threat modelling, static analysis of code, dynamic analysis of running network devices, penetration testing, hardware security assessments, and AI-enhanced vulnerability management

- Continually identify and evaluate new cybersecurity technologies and innovations that benefit product security posture and processes; work with other senior technical leaders and management to build out the cybersecurity roadmap, and then lead hands-on execution of the roadmap

- Leverage recognized domain expertise and experience to influence decisions of key stakeholders including executives, engineering managers, platform teams, product line managers, and customers

- Provide guidance and mentoring to less-experienced staff members; bootstrap excellence in cybersecurity design and development

Education and Experience Required:

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or adjacent technical field of study

- Typically 10+ years experience

Knowledge and Skills:

- Deep knowledge of the art and science of cybersecurity

- Ability to improvise, adapt, and overcome in the face of quickly evolving cybersecurity challenges and strategies

- Strong knowledge of networking, networking security protocols (TLS, SSH, IPsec), and cryptography as built into networking

- Significant experience working in one or more programming languages: C preferred, Python; bonus points for Rust

- Working experience driving product security certifications -- FIPS 140 and Common Criteria – from gap analysis, to product preparation, to pre-testing, to submission to third-party labs, to certificate award; ability to quickly ramp on EU CRA

- Working experience in harnessing AI systems for defensive security purposes including vulnerability discovery and management; understands the importance of AI governances and keeping the human-in-the-loop

- Strong technical communication skills both verbal and written; ability to explain, persuade, and evangelize

## Skills

### Required
- cybersecurity
- networking
- cryptography
- programming languages (C, Python, Rust)
- AI systems

### Nice to have
- Rust

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