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Senior Principal Cybersecurity Engineer

Troy, MI - USA💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-14 → 2026-07-30

Core

Developing novel cybersecurity capabilities, reverse engineering tools, and instrumentation for automotive hardware and software to protect vehicles from advanced threats.

Role type

Senior Principal Security Engineer (IC)

Builds

Production-ready cybersecurity capabilities, reverse engineering tools, and cyber research instrumentation for automotive platforms.

Domain

Automotive cybersecurity, embedded systems, low-level hardware security

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | research | infrastructure

Required skills

Vulnerability research, reverse engineering, C programming, assembly (ARM/MIPS/RISC-V/x86_64), host-based virtualization, emulation technologies, offensive cyber research, exploit development, embedded system debugging, Python scripting, cryptography, cryptographic libraries, protocol stacks

Preferred skills

Automotive hardware development, FPGA development, automotive communication systems (CAN/CAN-FD/Ethernet), automotive operating systems (SROS2, DDS), wireless protocols (Bluetooth/NFC/Wi-Fi), circuit schematics, hardware data sheets, logic design, threat modelling

Technologies

C, Python, ARM, MIPS, RISC-V, Intel x86_64, VMware, QEMU, Xen, Simics, Vivado, Xilinx, NXP, CAN, CAN-FD, Ethernet, SROS2, DDS, Bluetooth, NFC, Wi-Fi

Responsibilities

Research and develop production-ready cybersecurity capabilities; develop reverse engineering tools and cyber research instrumentation; communicate security research findings to production engineering teams; collaborate with open-source organizations; conduct experiments to test state-of-the-art technologies; translate research findings into patents and publications; maintain awareness of offensive and defensive cybersecurity activities; guide product teams through integration of new cybersecurity system designs; defend research viewpoints to senior leadership

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with strategic influence

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