Purple Teaming Engineer - Embedded Security
Lucid Motors6 hours ago
Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaMid Level / Senior
Responsibilities
- Operationalize purple-team and attack-simulation exercises across embedded and cloud-connected systems.
- Develop adversary simulation plans aligned with threat intelligence and automate adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures.
- Collaborate with Red and Blue teams to identify detection gaps and improve SOC effectiveness.
- Identify, document, and review required log sources, formats, availability, completeness, and integrity across assets, ECUs, and infrastructure.
- Support offensive testing across RTOS, Linux, Android, and MCU-based systems, including packet analysis and custom protocol fuzzing.
- Draft and present technical reports, findings, weaknesses, logging requirements, and prioritized remediation strategies.
- Validate detection logic, assist with control validation, optimize SIEM systems, and automate threat modeling.
- Mentor junior team members and contribute to the development of offensive and defensive testing capabilities.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Security, Computer Science, or Information Technology.
- At least 5 years of professional experience and 3–6 years of combined experience in red teaming, SOC, detection engineering, or embedded security testing.
- Strong knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK, threat simulation tools, and detection principles.
- Experience with embedded Linux, Android, 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, custom protocol fuzzing, and vehicle communications such as CAN, UDS, DoIP, BLE, and MQTT.
- Strong technical writing and communication skills.
- Preferred: experience in vehicle cybersecurity or SOC, 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.
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.