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Northrop Grumman · 4 months ago

Anti-Tamper/Program Protection Engineer Level 3/4 (AHT) - R10202852

California, United States

Part-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$121K/yr - $182K/yr

5+ years exp

Northrop Grumman is a leading company in technological advancements, and they are seeking an Anti-Tamper/Program Protection Engineer to join their Advanced Weapons team. The role involves developing next-generation solutions to protect technology for the nation's warfighter, requiring collaboration with team members and external partners.

AerospaceData IntegrationManufacturingRemote SensingSecurity

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.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

CybersecurityAnti-TamperSystems EngineeringSecurity ArchitectureReverse EngineeringCryptographyTechnical DocumentationProblem SolvingCommunication SkillsTeam Collaboration

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