Staff Embedded Security Engineer

Location: Johnston, IA

Job Description

As a Staff Embedded Security Engineer for JD Financial Worldwide Headquarters located in Moline, IL, you will operate as a technical leader and security subject matter expert, influencing architecture, development practices, and risk decisions across multiple product lines. You will work closely with embedded software, electrical systems, and cloud platform teams to implement cryptographic security controls. Additionally, you will:

• Define and review security architectures for embedded systems, influencing the design of new features (embedded, cloud and mobile) to ensure that our security needs can be met
• Design secure boot, secure update, identity, key management, and access control mechanisms for resource constrained embedded environments
• Design and develop new security solutions to support autonomy
• Evaluate and influence hardware security capabilities (e.g., secure elements, TPMs, HSMs)
  
  

VISA Sponsorship is NOT available for this position

What Skills You Need

• 8+ years of full-stack software development experience, including Python-based backend services
• Experience with Linux distributions
• Experience in the application of cryptographic security controls for embedded systems
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Software Engineering or experience that would be equivalent.
  
  

What Makes You Standout

• Experience with ISO/SAE 21434 (Road Vehicle Cybersecurity Engineering)
• Experience in the development of embedded systems for vehicles
• Experience in the development of IoT devices
• PKI experience, including certificate lifecycle management and key protection
• Experience in a DevOps role
• Experience developing AWS-native applications
  
  

Education

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Software Engineering or experience that would be equivalent