Software Cybersecurity Engineer V/VI
Zone 5 Technologies1 day ago
USA (city not specified)Staff+
Base Salary
$176k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead cybersecurity architecture and engineering for embedded flight software, mission-critical systems, and supporting applications.
- Design and implement secure boot, cryptographic key management, software signing, secure storage, authentication, integrity verification, and protections against exploitation and unauthorized access.
- Conduct threat modeling, attack-surface analysis, vulnerability assessments, cybersecurity risk evaluations, security architecture reviews, and penetration-testing coordination.
- Define cybersecurity requirements, architectures, verification methods, technical acceptance criteria, security control evidence, and risk assessments.
- Collaborate with Software, Systems, Hardware, GNC, and Platform Engineering teams to integrate security while meeting mission, real-time, performance, and safety requirements.
- Establish secure software development practices and support automated security analysis in CI/CD pipelines.
- Support customer technical reviews, cybersecurity assessments, and applicable DoD security requirements.
- Provide technical mentorship on secure architecture, secure coding, and embedded cybersecurity practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Cybersecurity, or equivalent technical experience.
- 8+ years of relevant experience in cybersecurity, embedded software engineering, systems security, or related disciplines.
- Strong programming experience in C, C++, Python, or comparable systems programming languages.
- Demonstrated experience securing embedded systems, real-time operating systems, or resource-constrained computing platforms.
- Strong understanding of cryptography, secure boot, authentication, software integrity, and secure communications.
- Experience with threat modeling, vulnerability analysis, security architecture reviews, and hardware/software security boundaries.
- Ability to independently develop technical solutions and lead cybersecurity engineering activities across multidisciplinary teams.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.
- Preferred qualifications include aerospace, defense, unmanned-systems, mission-critical embedded, ARM processor, VxWorks, embedded Linux, hardware-root-of-trust, trusted-execution-environment, secure-key-provisioning, secure-supply-chain, SBOM, software-signing, and automated-security-testing experience.
- Preferred familiarity includes NIST SP 800-53, NIST SP 800-160, NIST SP 800-171, RMF, CMMC, MIL-STD-882, airworthiness and system-safety cybersecurity, GitHub Enterprise, GitHub Actions, Docker, Artifactory, and embedded development toolchains.
- An active U.S. security clearance is preferred.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, life, and other benefit package options.
- 401(k) with company match.
- Three weeks of paid time off annually.
- 40 hours of sick time.
- 12 annual company holidays.
- Professional development and career advancement opportunities.
About Zone 5 Technologies
Zone 5 Technologies builds unmanned aircraft systems and enabling technologies—avionics, flight-control hardware/software, ground control stations, and mission-planning tools—for U.S. government and defense programs. A privately held DoD prime contractor founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Luis Obispo, CA, it develops products such as air-launched effects, counter‑UAS, tactical interceptors, and next‑generation munitions, offering end‑to‑end design, testing, and production.