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$82k–$220k/yr
Full-time
bachelor degree, postgraduate degree
Workplace flexibility, Employee clubs, Health workshops, Finance workshops, Off site social events, Discounts to local museums and cultural activities
Posted 38d ago
~40 hrs/week
Responsibilities
The Senior System Security Engineer will design and implement secure system architectures to protect against cyber, reverse engineering, and supply chain threats. They will also lead technical tasks, mentor junior engineers, and collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams to ensure program success.
Requirements
Candidates must hold a bachelor's degree in an engineering field or applied physics, with a master's degree preferred. Applicants are required to have 3-10 years of relevant experience and must be able to obtain and maintain a government security clearance.
Full job description
Overview:
Draper is an independent, nonprofit research and development company headquartered in Cambridge, MA. The 2,000+ employees of Draper tackle important national challenges with a promise of delivering successful and usable solutions. From military defense and space exploration to biomedical engineering, lives often depend on the solutions we provide. Our multidisciplinary teams of engineers and scientists work in a collaborative environment that inspires the cross-fertilization of ideas necessary for true innovation. For more information about Draper, visit www.draper.com.
Job Description Summary:
The Secure Solutions Group within the System’s Engineering Directorate is seeking a Senior System Security Engineer to support engineering, integrating, and deploying trustworthy secure platforms that resist cyber, reverse engineering, and supply chain threats. The group has multidisciplinary proficiencies in secure systems architecture, hardware security and resilience, software security and resilience, system validation and accreditation, and cryptography.
Specific responsibilities include the following: • Work with cross disciplinary team of system, hardware, and software engineers to support program execution. • Communicate with program members, program offices, and sponsors to present work to the technical and evaluation community. • Bring a systems engineering prospective to support development system architectures for secure solutions. • Support analysis of Draper, customer, and sponsor developed systems to evaluate effectiveness and suitability.
Job Description:
Duties/Responsibilities • Develop, execute and track the performance of security measures to protect information and network infrastructure and computer systems. • Design computer security strategy and engineer comprehensive cybersecurity architecture. • Identify, define and document system security requirements and recommend solutions to management. • Configure, troubleshoot and maintain security infrastructure software and hardware. • Install software that monitors systems and networks for security breaches and intrusions. • Monitor systems for irregular behavior and set up preventive measures. • Plan, develop, implement and update company’s information security strategy. • Educate and train staff on information system security best practices. • Able to take ownership of assignments and guide others as needed; successfully lead tasks while tracking priorities, scope, cost and schedule. • Derive plans and approaches to solving complex problems across a program lifecycle, capturing all assumptions and adapting appropriately to changes in requirements with limited direction. • Independently contributes high quality content for technical reports and presentations which shows an understanding of their task and an awareness of the intended audience. Demonstrates both confidence and success when presenting technical information during meetings with internal and external stakeholders. • Identify program/system-level technical risks and develop and execute mitigation strategies for them. • Actively mentor less experienced engineers and provide thoughtful, constructive feedback
Skills/Abilities • Curiosity-driven approach to solving complex, industry and customer-driven problems as part of a multi-disciplinary team. • Collaborate and communicate effectively and openly with multi-disciplinary program team members. program leadership, and non-technical personnel • Team player able to work in a fast-paced environment. • Ability to balance multiple competing tasks and demands.
Education Requires a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Applied Physics, or related field. Master's degree preferred.
Experience • Bachelor's degree requires 5-10 years' experience of working on System Security Engineer or other relevant position. • Master's degree requires 3-5 years' experience of working on System Security Engineer or other relevant position.
Additional Job Description:
Additional Qualifications:
Proficiency in full life-cycle systems engineering (architecture, design, development, integration, approval, and deployment) of security technologies and components within cyber-physical systems and systems-of-systems
Experience in the design and implementation of secured systems based on system requirements, design analysis, and consideration of external vectors
Familiarity with processes and technologies for identification of critical program information and development of the associated program protection plans
Experience in the development of System Security documentation per Government requirements
Familiarity with developing and implementing Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs)
Understanding of supply chain operations, risk management framework, information assurance, technology protection
Familiarity with the processes and technologies for cross-domain products, including secured firmware solutions and microelectronics
An understanding of the fundamentals of cryptographic key management, public key infrastructure, and NSA’s Key Management Infrastructure, and the applications of cryptology
Experience in writing innovative R&D proposals to commercial and government sponsors
Familiarity with DOORS, MATLAB, and/or Python
Flexibility to multi-task and adapt to changing priorities, technologies, and program needs
Security Requirements:
Applicants selected for this position will be required to obtain and maintain a government security clearance.
Current in-scope Secret security clearance required, Top Secret preferred.
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Job Location - City:
Cambridge
Job Location - State:
Massachusetts
Job Location - Postal Code:
02139-3563
The US base salary range for this full-time position is
$82,300.00 - $220,000.00
Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Union ranges will be in compliance with the collective bargaining agreement's approved rates by location and role.Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and does not include bonuses or benefits.
Our work is very important to us, but so is our life outside of work. Draper supports many programs to improve work-life balance including workplace flexibility, employee clubs ranging from photography to yoga, health and finance workshops, off site social events and discounts to local museums and cultural activities. If this specific job opportunity and the chance to work at a nationally renowned R&D innovation company appeals to you, apply now www.draper.com/careers.
Draper is committed to creating an inclusive environment. We understand the value of inclusivity and its impact on a high-performance culture. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information. Draper is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. To request reasonable accommodation, please contact hr@draper.com.
Nearly a century of building systems for space, national security, and health. We're not done. And we won't slow down.
Industry
Defense and Space Manufacturing
Company size
1,001-5,000 employees
Headquarters
Cambridge, MA
LinkedIn followers
57,839
Total funding
$56M
We Engineer Solutions for the Nation’s Toughest Problems
As an independent nonprofit engineering innovation company, Draper provides engineering services directly to government, industry, and academia. We work on teams as prime contractors or subcontractors and participate as collaborators in consortia.
Our strong commitment to delivering working solutions allows us to apply ourselves to a variety of domains from space to undersea — and many areas in between.
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