Hybrid Senior Cyber Engineer

at Draper

• Job title: Senior Cyber Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $82,300 - $205,750 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Assembly, Cyber Security
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Cambridge, United States

About the role

• Offensive Cybersecurity Engineer at Draper tackling national challenges in military defense and biomedical engineering. Assessing vulnerabilities, developing software, and mentoring junior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Assess hardware and software for security vulnerabilities using a breadth of technologies and techniques.
• Develop software that meets behavior and security requirements for tailored applications.
• Integrate software capabilities with other tasks or groups to improve performance or behavior requirements.
• Create new tools and systems to detect and exploit vulnerabilities and system weaknesses.
• Document nominal application and system functionality, in addition to implemented changes.
• Drive solutions to complex problems with limited direction – contribute to requirements development, propose ways forward, and adapt appropriately to changes in requirements.
• Provides insight and suggest design modifications based on analysis outcomes, and to apply analysis techniques across a range of technical disciplines.
• Identifies program/system-level technical risks and develop and execute mitigation strategies.
• Actively mentor less experienced engineers and provide thoughtful, constructive feedback.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Requires a bachelor's in computer science, computer engineering, or related field.
• 5-10 years experience in Cybersecurity or related field is required.
• 8+ years experience in offensive security positions primarily focused in red teaming roles within the national security context.
• Understanding of network protocols and computer architecture
• Written and verbal communication skills
• Knowledge of threat modeling, threat intelligence, maybe incident response
• Scripting experience
• Understanding of devops, CI/CD
• Experience working with systems engineers
• Understanding of basic cryptography
• Leadership demonstrated
• Exploit development and assembly code is preferred.
• Fault injection, side channels is preferred.
• Certifications are a plus but not necessary.

Benefits

• Workplace flexibility
• Employee clubs ranging from photography to yoga
• Health and finance workshops
• Off site social events
• Discounts to local museums and cultural activities