Security Engineer

Security Engineer

 

Senior Security Engineer

 

Job Description

 

The Senior Security Engineer will be a hands-on security professional with experience in offensive security, embedded systems, product security, and vulnerability research. This role will be responsible for helping to build, mature, and support the Copeland Product Security Program. This cross-functional position will work directly with product development teams to assess, design, test, and improve the security of Copeland products and services throughout their lifecycle.

This position will also support Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) activities, coordinated vulnerability disclosure, and cybersecurity regulatory readiness efforts including the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA).

 

 

As a Security Engineer, You Will:

 

Product Security Testing & Research

Perform product security testing and reporting, including but not limited to:

• Black-box reverse engineering of hardware and firmware
• Vulnerability research
• Exploit development
• Fuzz testing
• Protocol reverse engineering
• Hardware security assessments
• Embedded software security reviews

 

 

Penetration Testing

Conduct manual penetration testing of:

• Mobile Applications (iOS & Android)
• Web Applications
• APIs and Microservices
• Cloud Infrastructure
• Network Systems
• IoT Devices

Product Security Engineering

• Facilitate threat modeling with product, application, infrastructure, and engineering teams.
• Conduct architecture and design reviews to identify security weaknesses early in the development lifecycle.
• Support Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL) activities and Secure-by-Design initiatives.
• Review security requirements for connected products and cloud-based solutions.
• Partner with engineering teams to develop effective security controls and mitigations.

 

PSIRT & Vulnerability Management

• Support Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) operations.
• Investigate and validate externally reported vulnerabilities.
• Coordinate vulnerability triage, remediation, and disclosure activities.
• Participate in CVE identification, CVSS scoring, and security advisory development.
• Engage with security researchers, vulnerability disclosure programs, and industry partners.
• Assist with incident response activities involving Copeland products.

 

AI & Emerging Technology Security

• Perform security assessments of AI/ML and Generative AI-enabled products and services.
• Evaluate risks associated with AI agents, model supply chains, prompt injection, model poisoning, and data leakage.
• Help define security controls for AI-powered products and services.
• Assess third-party AI technologies and integrations for security risk.

 

Security Awareness & Program Development

• Perform security training and outreach to development and engineering teams.
• Support security champion programs and secure coding initiatives.
• Maintain product security metrics, documentation, dashboards, and operational procedures.
• Assist with continuous improvement of product security tools and processes.

 

Regulatory & Compliance Support

• Support cybersecurity compliance initiatives related to connected products.
• Assist with vulnerability management and reporting obligations under cybersecurity regulations and standards.
• Collaborate with legal, compliance, and product teams during product security investigations and regulatory reporting activities.
• Support readiness activities related to regulations such as the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), coordinated vulnerability disclosure processes, and secure product development requirements. 

 

Department Summary:

The Copeland Product Security department is focused on ensuring that our products are secure and that we are protecting our customers from relevant cyber threats by proactively identifying, addressing, and preventing vulnerabilities that could impact the confidentiality, integrity, availability, or safety of our products, services, and solutions.

 

We seek individuals with experience and innovative ideas in Product Security, Embedded Systems Security, IoT Security, AI Security, and Product Security Incident Response who are passionate about securing connected products and supporting secure-by-design development practices.

 

 

Who You Are:

• You look beyond the obvious and do not stop at the first answer.
• You enjoy solving complex technical problems and understanding how systems truly work.
• You are comfortable communicating technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• You maintain strong collaborative relationships across diverse teams and locations.
• You challenge assumptions respectfully and are comfortable participating in technical debate.
• You possess a strong sense of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• You enjoy learning new technologies and adapting to emerging threats and industry trends.

 

 

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Engineering, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

·         Minimum of 5 years of experience with any combination of the following: embedded systems and IoT security, red teaming, or penetration testing.

·         Experience conducting security testing of embedded hardware and the ability to identify and manipulate debug interfaces (UART, JTAG, SWD, etc.) and peripheral buses (SPI, I2C, etc.).

·         Experience performing Binary Reverse Engineering of ARM, MIPS, and PowerPC firmware using industry-standard tools such as IDA Pro, Binary Ninja, Ghidra, etc.

·         Experience planning and executing Red Team exercises.

·         Experience performing Fuzz Testing of industrial communication protocols like Wi-Fi / BLE / Wireless HART / PROFINET/ MODBUS / Ethernet IP/ OPC UA/ HART /FF.

• Understanding of secure boot processes, bootloaders, cryptographic implementations, and trusted execution concepts.

·         Understanding network, web, IoT, and industrial-related protocols such as TCP/UDP, HTTPS, MQTTS, CoAP, Modbus, Ethernet/IP, DNP3, OPC-UA, etc.

·         Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

·         Strong analytical skills and problem-solving capabilities.

 

 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) operations, including vulnerability triage, CVSS scoring, authoring security advisories, and coordinated vulnerability disclosure activities.
• Understanding of cybersecurity regulations affecting connected products, including EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), IEC 62443, NIST Secure Software Development Framework (SSDF).
• Experience working with Cloud Security Architectures.
• Understanding cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud.
• Experience with programming languages such as Python, C, C++, C#, Assembly, Go, Rust, etc.
• Experience with software supply chain security, including SBOM generation and analysis, Software Composition Analysis (SCA), CI/CD security.
• Knowledge of embedded Linux required, knowledge of Real-Time Operating Systems a plus.
• Hands-on experience assessing AI/ML Systems, Generative AI Applications, LLM-based Applications, Autonomous Agents.
• Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK, OWASP Top 10, OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications.

Experience Level

Senior Level