Purple Teaming Engineer - Embedded Security
Lucid Motors5 hours ago
Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaMid Level / Senior
Responsibilities
- Operationalize purple-team and attack-simulation exercises across embedded and cloud-connected systems.
- Develop threat-informed adversary simulation plans and automate adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures.
- Collaborate with Red and Blue teams and SOC personnel to identify detection gaps and validate detection logic.
- Identify, document, and review required log sources, formats, completeness, availability, and integrity across assets, ECUs, and infrastructure.
- Recommend logging, event-visibility, and secure-logging improvements to system and asset owners.
- Support offensive testing across RTOS, Linux, Android, and MCU-based systems.
- Assist with control validation, SIEM optimization, threat-modeling automation, and SOC operations.
- Prepare and present technical reports, findings, weaknesses, remediation priorities, and Purple Team activity summaries.
- Mentor junior team members and contribute to offensive and defensive testing capabilities.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Security, Computer Science, or Information Technology and at least 5 years of professional experience.
- 3–6 years of combined experience in red teaming, SOC operations, detection engineering, or embedded security testing.
- Strong knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK, threat-simulation tools, and detection principles.
- Experience with embedded Linux, Android systems, RTOS, or MCU platforms.
- Familiarity with SIEM systems such as Splunk and ELK and with log analysis.
- Proficiency in Python scripting and automation.
- Exposure to network security, packet analysis, and custom protocol fuzzing.
- Exposure to vehicle communications including CAN, UDS, DoIP, BLE, and MQTT.
- Strong technical writing and communication skills.
- Preferred experience includes vehicle cybersecurity or SOC work, embedded threat detection, Burp Suite, Ghidra, Binwalk, custom fuzzers, low-level attack simulation, firmware tampering, memory corruption, secure-boot bypasses, cloud security architecture, telemetry pipelines, and threat-hunting frameworks.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Life and disability coverage.
- Paid time off, paid holidays, and paid sick leave.
- 401(k) retirement plan.
- Eligible employees may participate in an equity program and/or discretionary annual cash incentive program.
- Hourly/non-exempt employees accrue up to 120 hours of paid time off, while salaried/exempt employees accrue up to 160 hours.
- Lucid is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations for qualified applicants with disabilities.
About Lucid Motors
Lucid Motors designs, manufactures, and sells premium electric vehicles, including the Lucid Air sedan and Gravity SUV, built on its in-house EV platform. The public company, founded in 2016 and headquartered in Newark, California, sells directly through its website and showrooms and operates manufacturing in Arizona. It also supplies powertrain technology to other automakers and develops software and driver-assistance features for its vehicles.