Northrop Grumman Australia · 5 months ago
Anti-Tamper/Program Protection Engineer Level 3/4 (AHT)
United States-California-Northridge
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$121K/yr - $182K/yr
3+ years expNorthrop Grumman Australia is a leading defense contractor seeking an Anti-Tamper/Program Protection Engineer to join their Advanced Weapons team in Northridge, CA. The role involves developing next-generation solutions to protect technology for the nation’s warfighter, including defining system architectures resistant to tampering and conducting security assessments.
Defense & Space
No H1B
Security Clearance RequiredU.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Provide analysis, development, implementation, and security assessments to ensure compliance with National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication (SP) 800-53, CNSSI 1253, and DoD RMF Knowledge Service guidance
Define system architectures resistant to tampering and cyber-attacks
Develop technical documentation/publication to document trade studies, system designs, analysis, and results related to systems security
Identify Anti-Tamper Critical Program Information (CPI) and writing of Anti-Tamper and Verification & Validation Plans
Support Anti-Tamper/Cybersecurity Integration & Test and executing Verification & Validation test events
Utilize reverse engineering to architect and validate AT solutions
Support security assessments and continuous monitoring
Ensure secure software architectures and applications
Develop standard and improvement processes for assessing, designing, implementing, and verifying security requirements
Support the development of the system security engineering team’s training plan for their development in knowledge and skills
Interface with inter-organizational management and external customers to communicate technical briefing and program status
Support Program Management activities to ensure cost and schedule objectives are met
Qualification
Required
B.S. in an engineering/computer science discipline and a minimum of 5 years of engineering, computer science, information systems, or equivalent experience, or M.S. and 3 years
Minimum two years of cybersecurity/anti-tamper requirements development, security and cyber threat analysis, security systems engineering, cyber systems architecture development and cybersecurity policy development
Must have demonstrated experience in solving technical problems independently with minimal supervision
Familiarity with requirements development and derivation or validation and verification
U.S. Citizenship and active secret DoD clearance is required with the ability to obtain higher Special Access Program (SAP) clearance
B.S. in an engineering/computer science discipline and a minimum of 8 years of engineering, computer science, information systems, or equivalent experience, or M.S. and 6 years
Minimum five years of cybersecurity/anti-tamper requirements development, security and cyber threat analysis, security systems engineering, cyber systems architecture development and cybersecurity policy development
Knowledge of DoD based Platforms and Embedded Systems, including but not limited to: RMF, Cryptography and Systems Engineering design and implementation
Experience executing Systems Engineering activities (requirements derivation, design, Integration & Test, Verification & Validation)
Proven experience in communicating with all levels of peers, management and customers in a methodical, detailed and in a process-oriented fashion
Demonstrated experience in solving technical problems independently
U.S. Citizenship and active secret DoD clearance is required with the ability to obtain higher Special Access Program (SAP) clearance
Preferred
Advanced degree in Engineering, Software or Science
Experience working in the defense industry or with weapons, specifically missile systems
Experience with Anti-tamper, Reverse Engineering, Hardware Design, Embedded Software or Cryptography
Technical problem solving, to include decomposition, root cause analysis, solution development, implementation and monitoring
Experience with proposals and creating basis of estimates (BOEs)
Experience contributing to and/or making technical presentations to a lead engineer
Develop software assurance plan per guidance in Defense Acquisition Guidebook
Compile/Prepare software assurance activities in accordance with Application of Software Assurance Countermeasures, in DASD (SE) PPP Outline and Guidance
Identify and mitigate software assurance vulnerabilities and perform integration testing of mitigation/resolution
Hardware (Firmware) Assurance, Software Attack Surface Analysis Report, Select Software/Firmware Encryption, and Secure Key Handling
Benefits
Health insurance coverage
Life and disability insurance
Savings plan
Company paid holidays
Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
Company
Northrop Grumman Australia
Northrop Grumman Australia is the Australia-based arm of Northrop Grumman Corporation and committed to generating long-term prosperity, investing in advanced Research & Development, sovereign and exportable Intellectual Property, high-quality jobs and long-term technology leadership across the Commonwealth.
501-1000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageCompany data provided by crunchbase