Job Summary

Introduction: A Career at HARMAN Automotive

We re a global, multi-disciplinary team that s putting the cutting-edge power of technology to work and transforming tomorrow. At HARMAN Automotive, we give you the keys to fast-track your career.

- Engineer audio systems and integrated technology platforms that augment the driving experience
- Combine ingenuity, in-depth research, and a spirit of collaboration with design and engineering excellence
- Advance in-vehicle infotainment, safety, efficiency, and enjoyment

Responsibilities

- Develop and maintain cybersecurity concepts, cybersecurity requirements, security architectures, interface specifications, and verification criteria for automotive products.
- Plan, facilitate, document, and maintain Threat Analysis and Risk Assessment activities, including asset identification, attack-path analysis, impact assessment, risk determination, cybersecurity goals, and risk-treatment decisions.
- Create, review, and maintain applicable ISO/SAE 21434 work products, ensuring bidirectional traceability between identified risks, cybersecurity goals, requirements, architecture decisions, implemented controls, verification evidence, and residual-risk decisions.
- Perform cybersecurity architecture reviews and provide actionable guidance to system, software, hardware, cloud, and validation teams.
- Define security controls for Android Automotive and Linux-based IVI systems, including secure boot, chain of trust, SELinux policy, application sandboxing, Trusted Execution Environment integration, Trusted Applications, key protection, and secure storage.
- Define and review cryptographic designs involving PKI, certificate and key lifecycle management, authentication, authorization, encryption, TLS/SSL, OpenSSL, JSSE, and secure communications.
- Define security controls for telematics and connected systems, including connectivity, diagnostics, vehicle-to-backend communication, OTA software updates, software authenticity, integrity validation, rollback protection, and secure update authorization.




- Support implementation of Cybersecurity Management System processes and product evidence needed for UNECE R155 compliance, cybersecurity audits, assessments, and Vehicle Type Approval activities.
- Support Software Update Management System processes and product evidence needed for UNECE R156 compliance, including software update governance, update traceability, integrity and authenticity controls, compatibility assessment, and update verification evidence.
- Contribute to cybersecurity case development by consolidating requirements, analyses, architecture decisions, test results, vulnerability information, open risks, assumptions, deviations, and residual-risk acceptance evidence.
- Support cybersecurity planning, cybersecurity interface agreements, supplier cybersecurity reviews, distributed-development coordination, and review of supplier-provided cybersecurity evidence.
- Define cybersecurity verification and validation strategies, including security requirements testing, robustness testing, vulnerability scanning, fuzz testing, penetration-testing support, and remediation verification.
- Assess vulnerabilities and coordinate their treatment through triage, applicability analysis, risk evaluation, remediation planning, security patch integration, verification, disclosure coordination, and post-production monitoring.
- Support incident-response readiness and product cybersecurity monitoring by defining logging, detection, escalation, investigation, containment, and evidence-retention expectations.
- Review backend and API security controls, including identity and access management, authentication, authorization, encryption, secrets management, secure API design, logging, monitoring, and cloud security fundamentals.




- Support alignment between automotive product cybersecurity activities and relevant ISO/IEC 27001 controls where product, development, operational, or backend environments intersect with the organizational information security management system.
- Prepare and present cybersecurity status, risks, assumptions, compliance gaps, remediation plans, and technical decisions to engineering and program stakeholders.
- Support internal and external cybersecurity assessments by providing objective evidence, responding to findings, and tracking corrective actions to closure.
- Promote security-by-design practices, reusable security patterns, secure engineering guidance, and lessons learned across automotive development teams.

What You Need to Be Successful

- Bachelor s degree in computer science, cybersecurity, electrical engineering, software engineering, telecommunications, or a related technical discipline.
- Professional experience in automotive cybersecurity, embedded security, product security, or security architecture. The required number of years is to be confirmed.
- Hands-on experience applying ISO/SAE 21434 within an automotive product lifecycle and producing or reviewing cybersecurity engineering work products.
- Practical experience conducting and documenting TARA activities and deriving cybersecurity goals, claims, requirements, and risk-treatment measures.
- Working knowledge of UNECE R155, CSMS expectations, audit evidence, and cybersecurity contributions to Vehicle Type Approval.
- Working knowledge of UNECE R156, SUMS expectations, and security considerations for automotive software update and OTA processes.
- Experience developing or reviewing cybersecurity concepts, system security architectures, cybersecurity requirements, design decisions, interface controls, and verification strategies.
- Strong understanding of embedded and connected-system security.

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