10 hours ago
Base Salary
$224k - $284k/yr
Responsibilities
- Threat-model automotive Ethernet, CAN, and CAN-FD networks against vehicle-network attacks.
- Design and review ECU security controls including secure boot, firmware code signing, and anti-rollback protections.
- Secure OTA update pipelines with signing, staged and canary rollouts, rollback protection, and tamper detection.
- Partner with hardware and manufacturing teams to mitigate counterfeit, tampered, and other vehicle component supply-chain risks.
- Represent Security in vehicle architecture and engineering design reviews.
- Own incident-response strategies for compromised or potentially compromised vehicles, including remote isolation and quarantine procedures.
- Set technical priorities, engineering standards, and operating practices across the security organization.
- Provide technical direction, hiring, mentorship, and quarterly planning as the team grows.
Requirements
- 7+ years of security engineering experience, including at least 3 years in automotive, embedded systems, or industrial IoT security.
- Hands-on experience with CAN, CAN-FD, and UDS automotive communication protocols.
- Experience with automotive security testing tools such as SocketCAN, CANoe, Kayak, or equivalent tooling.
- Production experience securing OTA firmware or software update systems.
- Experience with secure boot, code signing, firmware integrity, and rollback protection.
- Working knowledge of ISO/SAE 21434 and automotive cybersecurity integration into software and hardware development lifecycles.
- Experience leading technical projects, teams, or security programs and influencing senior engineering stakeholders.
- Ability to communicate security risks, tradeoffs, and technical direction clearly.
- Experience securing Level 4 autonomous vehicle systems is preferred.
- Familiarity with UNECE WP.29, R155, and R156 requirements is preferred.
- Red-team, penetration-testing, or offensive-security experience focused on vehicles, embedded systems, or hardware is preferred.
- Experience with hardware security, component integrity, or automotive supply-chain security is preferred.
- Prior people-management experience or experience leading a dedicated security engineering team is preferred.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including HSA options.
- Company-paid short- and long-term life and disability insurance.
- Voluntary accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity insurance.
- Optional supplemental life insurance for employees, spouses, and children.
- Pet insurance discount, 401(k), HSA, and flexible spending accounts.
- Discretionary vacation, 8 paid holidays, paid sick time, paid bereavement leave, and paid parental leave.
- Based in San Francisco and onsite five days per week for office-based teams.
- Full-time exempt USA employee benefits are subject to change at the company’s discretion.
About Atoms
Atoms develops robotics, software, and infrastructure to automate real-world industrial operations, with offerings focused on food production, mining, and robotic transport platforms. It sells integrated automation systems and platforms—Atoms Food, Atoms Mining, and a transport wheelbase for robots—to industrial customers seeking greater productivity and scalability. The privately held company is headquartered in Los Angeles.