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Job Summary:
Draper is an independent, nonprofit research and development company headquartered in Cambridge, MA, focused on delivering innovative solutions to national challenges. They are seeking a Principal System Security Engineer to support the development and deployment of secure platforms that withstand cyber threats, collaborating with a multidisciplinary team to manage system architectures and evaluate security effectiveness.
Responsibilities:
• 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.
• Manage and control priorities, scope, schedule, and cost to baselines by proactively monitoring program/task performance across larger activities.
• Independently derive system-level requirements based on mission requirements and defines plan and approach to solve complex problems.
• Supports helping customers shape problems and needs.
• Subject Matter Expert (SME) able to develop and implement security approaches through a program lifecycle.
• Identify program/system-level technical risks and develop and execute mitigation strategies.
• Develop, document, and teach best practices to less experienced engineers. Demonstrate strong organization, planning, and time management skills to achieve program goals.
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 10+ years' experience of working on System Security Engineer or other relevant position.
• Master's degree requires 5-10 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.
• Current in-scope Secret security clearance required, Top Secret preferred.
• 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.
• Manage and control priorities, scope, schedule, and cost to baselines by proactively monitoring program/task performance across larger activities.
• Independently derive system-level requirements based on mission requirements and defines plan and approach to solve complex problems.
• Supports helping customers shape problems and needs.
• Subject Matter Expert (SME) able to develop and implement security approaches through a program lifecycle.
• Identify program/system-level technical risks and develop and execute mitigation strategies.
• Develop, document, and teach best practices to less experienced engineers.
• Demonstrate strong organization, planning, and time management skills to achieve program goals.
Preferred:
• Master's degree preferred.
• 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
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.