Senior System Engineer Jobs in Roxbury Crossing, MA

Job Summary:
Draper is an independent, nonprofit research and development company headquartered in Cambridge, MA. They are seeking a Senior System Security Engineer to guide and facilitate concept development, mission-system analysis, and requirement definition & compliance for critical cyber resilient technologies, addressing national security threats. The role involves developing security measures, designing cybersecurity architecture, and mentoring less experienced engineers.
Responsibilities:
• Leveraging System Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA) for Attack Surface Analysis (ASA) to improve “blue team” designs and attack vector insights
• On-time delivery and maturating of System Security work packages such as: Attack Surface Traceability | Security Requirements | Security Architecture | Off-Nominal & Contingency scenarios | Anomaly Management policies
• Socializing and demystifying System Security, Cybersecurity, & Cryptography best practices and techniques to internal cross-disciplinary stakeholders such as: System Architecture | Avionics | Software | Hardware design teams
• Advocating for System Security best practices, to internal and external stakeholders & customers
• Quick turn application of critical thinking for problem framing, analyzing, and synthesizing complex problems qualitatively and quantitatively
• Documenting insights, findings, lessons learned, and maintaining a knowledge base of contributions within Draper’s collaborative Digital Engineering tool suite
• 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.
• 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
Qualifications:
Required:
• Requires a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Applied Physics, or related field.
• 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.
• Applicants selected for this position will be required to obtain and maintain a government security clearance.
Preferred:
• Proficiency applying System Theoretic Process Analysis for Security (STPA-Sec) to industry challenge problems.
• Proficiency with Model-based System Engineering toolkits, such as Cameo/MagicDraw, DOORs/DoorsNG, Jama Connect for the purposes of attack surface modeling and rapid impact & gap analysis for validation.
• An astute understanding of the applications of cryptography for complex weapon and space systems, cryptographic key management, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and the NSA’s Key Management Infrastructure.
• Experience documenting compliance towards parent specifications and standards (i.e.: NIST SP 800.160, NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0, DoD Cyber Tabletop Guide, NIST SP 800-57, NIST 800.53 & Risk Management Framework (RMF), MITRE Attack Framework, and DoD Instruction 3150.02).
• Proficiency in requirement derivation, definition, and analysis for System Security, Network Security, and Data Security needs.
• Experience integrating vulnerability remediation, risk mitigation, and incident response within the Systems Engineering process.
• Experience drafting innovative R&D proposals to commercial government sponsors.
Company:
Draper is a non-profit laboratory focused on applied research, engineering development, education, and technology transfer. Founded in 1932, the company is headquartered in Cambridge, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.