Senior Principal Cybersecurity Engineer

Aptiv

Senior Principal Cybersecurity Engineer at Aptiv focused on developing cybersecurity capabilities for automotive products. Engaging in vulnerability discovery, reverse engineering, and collaboration with production teams.

Posted 7/21/2026full-timeTroy • Missouri • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive experience in cybersecurity engineering, including vulnerability research, reverse engineering, and development of cryptographic libraries. Proficient in low-level programming and familiar with virtualization and emulation technologies, with strong communication and collaboration skills to integrate findings into production environments.

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Cybersecurity EngineeringVulnerability ResearchC ProgrammingReverse EngineeringOffensive Cyber Research

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Hard Skills

Cryptographic LibrariesLow-Level DevelopmentScripting LanguagesDebugging Embedded SystemsHost-Based Virtualization

Soft Skills

CommunicationCollaborationOrganizationInterpersonal Skills

Tools & Technologies

VMware WorkstationQEMU-KVMXenJTAGUART

Industry Keywords

Embedded SystemsCybersecurity StackBug BountiesCapture-The-Flag CompetitionsTechnical Reports

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AssemblyCyber SecurityLinuxPythonVMware

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Research and develop production-ready cybersecurity capabilities, develop reverse engineering tools and other cyber research instrumentation
Develop, enhance and customize security capabilities, tooling and instrumentation
Communicate security research findings to production engineering teams around the world, ensuring integration into platforms and products
Collaborate with open-source organizations to ensure quality of our open-source cybersecurity stack, including making quality and feature improvements
Conduct experiments to test the limits of state-of-the-art technologies to uncover weaknesses and vulnerabilities
Translate research findings into patents, blog posts, and conference publications
Maintain an up-to-date awareness of offensive and defensive cybersecurity activities in the public/commercial domain and working to accelerate cyber operations as appropriate
Break down long-term efforts into discrete tasks that demonstrate incremental progress
Guide product teams through integration of new cybersecurity system designs and testing methodologies
Defend research viewpoints to senior and executive leadership by providing compelling information and evidence

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years’ experience in cybersecurity engineering, development of cryptographic libraries/protocol stacks, vulnerability research, or reverse engineering
5+ years’ experience with C, assembly (ARM, MIPS, RISC-V, Intel x86_64, proprietary architectures, etc.), or similar low-level /embedded development
3+ years’ experience with: 1) host-based virtualization (VMware workstation, QEMU-KVM, Xen, etc.) and emulation technologies (QEMU, Simics, etc.); 2) conducting offensive cyber research such as vulnerability research and exploit development against embedded systems; 3) scripting languages like Python in a Linux-like environment; and 4) debugging embedded systems (JTAG, UART, proprietary debugging environment, etc)
Familiarity with embedded systems development and use of cryptography and/or communications implementations
Good organization, communication, collaboration and interpersonal skills
A go-getter that is passionate to learn about new security vulnerabilities and develop assessment automation solutions
Interest and/or experience with bug bounties, capture-the-flag competitions, etc.
Experience proposing and executing independent research and development tasks and writing conference-level technical reports
Familiarity with version control systems and code review processes

Benefits

Comp & perks

Private health care effective day 1 of employment
Life and accident insurance
Paid Time Off (Holidays, Vacation, Designated time off, Parental leave)
Learning and development opportunities
Discount programs with various manufacturers and retailers
Recognition for innovation and excellence
Opportunities to give back to the community
Tuition Reimbursement
Adoption Assistance
Fertility Coverage