Cybersecurity Technical Specialist

Ford Motor Company

Offboard Cybersecurity Technical Specialist providing technical leadership across Ford’s mobile and web applications, APIs, cloud services, and connected platforms. Supporting API Security, Application Security, Charging Security, and PKI/KMS teams while addressing complex security challenges.

Posted 7/2/2026full-timeDearborn • Missouri • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $132,800 - $250,800 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudCyber SecurityIoT

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Act as a liaison to other pillars in the Product Cybersecurity department (Compliance, Monitoring/SOC, Onboard Cybersecurity), ensuring offboard cybersecurity is represented in and connected to department-wide processes, standards, tool engagements, and decision points.
Deliver practical, technically grounded recommendations to product teams and leadership, helping them make risk-based tradeoff decisions that fit how their systems actually work.
Translate technical insight into standards, requirements, and training, contributing to discoverable, practical guidance.
Support cross-pillar initiatives including: ASPM and tool integrations, cryptographic standards, security deliverable improvements, and risk management.
Mentor and upskill engineers across the offboard space, sharing technical security expertise, coaching team members on assessment and testing techniques, and helping raise the overall security capability and consistency across the API Security, AppSec, Charging, and PKI/KMS pillars.
Evaluate new and emerging technologies and assess how to securely bring them into Ford's offboard environment, working across department boundaries to do so.
Support threat modeling for complex systems, features, and integrations, including API AuthN/AuthZ flows, charging use cases (Plug & Charge, V2G), and cryptographic trust services, contributing technical depth to threat models led by others.
Take on complex technical problems across the offboard space, working alongside the relevant cybersecurity engineer to investigate options, and drive toward practical solutions.
Support cybersecurity engineers in the development of reusable, practical, and secure usage patterns for new and emerging technologies in the Offboard product space.
Collaborate with the monitoring team to analyze security trends across the offboard space and help define concrete actions and improvements in response.
Support the development of SOC detectors by bringing a deep understanding of underlying technologies and identifying potential areas of risk and concern that should be detected and monitored.
Stay current in new technologies, tools, and ideas, continuously building expertise to keep Ford's offboard security guidance relevant and forward-looking.
Participate in external working groups related to offboard cybersecurity technologies and initiatives, bringing industry insight back into Ford and representing Ford's perspective where appropriate.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field OR a combination of education and experience.
7+ years of experience in cybersecurity, security engineering, product security, application security, cloud security, API security, automotive cybersecurity, IoT security, or a related technical security domain.
Experience serving in a senior technical capacity, including mentoring engineers, guiding technical decision-making, influencing architecture or design direction, and driving cross-functional security work.
Strong understanding of application, API, cloud, and integration security concepts, including secure design, identity, authentication, authorization, access control, data protection, and secure software delivery practices.
Strong understanding of network security, communication protocols, TLS, PKI, certificate management, key management, encryption, digital signatures, and related cryptographic principles.
Experience performing security architecture reviews, design reviews, threat modeling, or risk assessments for complex systems, products, platforms, or integrations.
Ability to translate complex technical security risks into practical recommendations, reusable guidance, standards, or secure implementation patterns.
Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across cybersecurity, product, engineering, architecture, operations, compliance, and monitoring/SOC teams.
Ability to evaluate emerging technologies and define practical, risk-based approaches for secure adoption.
Strong executive and technical communication skills, with the ability to explain nuanced security risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations to both engineering teams and leadership.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
Tuition assistance
Established and active employee resource groups
Paid time off for individual and team community service
A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

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Hard Skills & Tools

Security Architecture ReviewsRisk AssessmentsSecure Software Delivery PracticesNetwork SecurityCryptographic PrinciplesData ProtectionIdentity ManagementAuthenticationAuthorizationAccess Control

Soft Skills

Strong Communication SkillsCollaboration SkillsTechnical Decision-MakingInfluencing ArchitectureMentoring