Automotive Cybersecurity Engineer / Architect – Product Security
Location: Bangalore
Experience: 8–15+ Years
Industry: Automotive / Automotive Electronics
Function: Product Cybersecurity | Embedded Systems | ECU Security
About the Company
Our client is a leading global automotive technology and mobility solutions company serving major automotive OEMs and Tier-1 customers worldwide. The organization develops advanced automotive electronic and embedded systems with a strong focus on innovation, engineering excellence and vehicle cybersecurity.
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced Automotive Cybersecurity Engineer / Architect to drive product cybersecurity activities across the complete automotive product development lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain Cybersecurity Plans, Cybersecurity Cases, and work products in accordance with ISO/SAE 21434.
- Define cybersecurity goals, requirements, and technical security concepts for automotive products.
- Support secure design and development activities across hardware and software teams.
- Collaborate with systems engineering teams to integrate cybersecurity requirements into product specifications.
- Review system architectures for cybersecurity vulnerabilities and recommend mitigation measures.
- Support secure software development lifecycle (SSDLC) activities.
- Review penetration testing, fuzz testing, vulnerability assessment, and security validation results.
- Participate in vulnerability monitoring and incident response activities.
- Support software update and OTA security processes.
- Analyse security incidents and recommend corrective actions.
Mandatory Skills
- Automotive Product Cybersecurity
- ISO/SAE 21434
- Attack Path Modelling & Threat Analysis
- STRIDE
- Cybersecurity Requirements & Technical Security Concepts
- Automotive ECUs / Product Development
- CAN / LIN
- Secure Boot & HSM / Hardware Security
- Authentication, Encryption & Integrity Protection
- Vulnerability Assessment & Security Validation
Education & Experience
- Bachelor's or master’s degree in Electronics or Electrical Engineering having 8+ years of experience in automotive industry (5+ years of experience in automotive product development and 3+ years of experience in automotive cybersecurity.)
- Mandatory to have LIN/CAN protocol knowledge.
- Experience in modelling potential attack paths and analysing how threats can compromise automotive assets and functions.
- Proficiency in using the STRIDE threat modelling methodology to identify Spoofing, Tampering, Repudiation, Information Disclosure, Denial of Service, and Elevation of Privilege threats.
- Experience implementing authentication, encryption, and integrity protection for in-vehicle and external communications.
- Understanding of mechanisms that ensure only authenticated and trusted software is executed during ECU startup.
- Experience with dedicated hardware-based security processors for cryptographic operations, secure key storage, and authentication.
- Understanding digital certificates, key management, and trust models used for vehicle authentication and secure communications.
Please share the following details along with your updated CV to [email protected] or contact us at 9225178365.
- Total Years of Experience:
- Current Location:
- Willingness to work from Bangalore:
- Current CTC:
- Expected CTC:
- Notice Period / Earliest Joining Date:
- Hands-on Automotive Product Cybersecurity Experience:
- Experience with ISO/SAE 21434 and related cybersecurity work products:
- Experience with STRIDE, Threat Analysis & Attack Path Modelling:
- Experience in defining Cybersecurity Goals, Requirements & Technical Security Concepts:
- Hands-on experience with Secure Hardware / Software Design, Secure Boot & HSM:
- Experience with Authentication, Encryption & Integrity Protection:
- Experience with Digital Certificates, Key Management & Trust Models:
- Experience with CAN / LIN communication protocols:
- Experience with Penetration Testing, Fuzz Testing & Vulnerability Assessment:
- Experience with Security Validation, Vulnerability Monitoring & Incident Response:
- Experience with Software Updates / OTA Security:
- Automotive OEMs / Tier-1 customers and ECU/Product programs handled: