Vast is looking to contribute to a future where billions of people are living and thriving in space by building artificial gravity space stations, and is seeking a Senior Product Security Engineer to support the development of systems for the design and build of artificial-gravity human-rated space stations.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of security architecture, system requirements development, and implementation concepts for complex systems.
- Hands-on experience with threat modeling, risk assessment, and security testing methodologies.
- Familiarity with cryptographic methods, access controls, and secure communications protocols.
- Understanding of compliance requirements and certifications like NIST 800-53.
- Understanding of the SPARTA framework.
- Familiarity operating in AWS.
- Prior experience developing, implementing, and validating a security features for a space system.
Responsibilities
- Developing top-level system requirements, and flowing down requirements and implementation concepts to subsystem.
- Define security development and test efforts implementation of security controls of components for the ground, link, and vehicle segments.
- Support developing plans and estimates, task execution, project tracking, reporting, and risk identification and mitigation plans.
- Interact with other functions to coordinate requirements, solutions, trades, costs, implementation, system impacts, and effectiveness.
- Support compliance efforts as it relates to NIST 800-53.
Other
- Ability to travel up to 10% of the time.
- Willingness to work overtime, or weekends to support critical mission milestones.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience.
- Strong ability to interact with cross-functional teams to align security requirements, trade-offs, and system impacts.
- U.S. export control compliance status, must be a “U.S. person” as defined by 22 C.F.R. § 120.62 or otherwise eligible for deemed export licensing.
