Cybersecurity Engineer

San Diego, CA, United States

Company: Qualcomm Incorporated Job Area: Information Technology Group, Information Technology Group > Cyber Security Engineering General Summary:

What’s Qualcomm all about : As the world's leading wireless tech innovator, we push the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-gen experiences and drive digital transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all. Our roadmap of breakthrough technologies expands our mobile innovations and solutions to support virtually every connected device. With our leadership in wireless connectivity, high-performance, low-power computing, and on-device AI, we’re powering the connected intelligent edge.

The team you’ll be on : Information Security and Risk Management (ISRM) is a troupe of world class cybersecurity professionals responsible for protecting Qualcomm’s intellectual property and confidential information.  We drive cybersecurity practices across technology, processes, and governance; and identify, mitigate, monitor, and manage cybersecurity risks that threaten shareholder value.

The role : Your typical day will be spent working with members of Qualcomm's automotive engineering teams at tactical and strategic levels to secure our intellectual property.  You'll assess impacts of cybersecurity policies and tooling on engineering practices and workflows; when appropriate, you'll recommend and champion changes to:

- cybersecurity policies and standards

- cybersecurity tooling

- IT architecture

- automotive related workflows

We expect you have subject matter expertise in cybersecurity tooling, a proven history of securing CI/CD tooling and pipelines, and a strong familiarity with hardware/software development and design related to automotive.

Preferred Qualifications:

•    12+ years of cybersecurity-relevant work experience with a Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.

•    Familiarity with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.

•    2+ years of work experience in a role requiring interaction with senior leadership (e.g., Director level and above).

•    2+ years in a technical leadership role with or without direct reports.

•    2+ years of automotive information security work experience.

•    Cybersecurity-relevant certifications.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

•    Applies expert knowledge in one or more security-related areas (e.g., cryptography, hacker exploits, reverse engineering, etc.) to act as a technical lead on large projects/programs and ensures they are driven to completion.

•    Cross-functional collaboration with teams to ensure that complex security risks and vulnerabilities are identified, understood, and prioritized; works with other teams to resolve issues and execute mitigation strategy.

•    Stays up-to-date on latest trends to prevent potential attacks and gains buy-in from other areas to promote the adoption of new technologies and methods.

•    Leverages expertise when conducting root cause analyses to find the cause of highly complex security issues in products that may involve multiple groups or processes. Presents findings to critical senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders.

•    Proactively identifies security risks to existing systems and discusses risks with senior leadership outside of project team to construct solutions.

•    Reviews technical documentation for large projects before publication and provides feedback as needed. Presents complicated technical information to senior leadership (e.g., Sr. Director and above).

•    Considers all aspects as lead of a design by determining which teams should get involved and which tests need to be conducted, reviewing risk areas and impact, and highlighting the right set of issues to share with senior leadership and the entire team.

•    Collaborates with other Engineers to prioritize and address escalations that impact a large number of customers/stakeholders in order to create and carry out solutions that meet security requirements, updates senior leadership about critical security issues, and addresses and communicates about highly complex, security-related issues.

•    Meets with high-priority and/or high-profile project teams and business stakeholders to identify security requirements as an industry expert, and makes recommendations based on the configurations, systems, and devices impacted by proposed enhancements or upgrades.

•     Engages with business partners cross-functionally (e.g., testing group, product group, customers) to develop and execute a plan and system design for a large initiative.

•    Leads high-risk security architecture reviews with cross-functional project members and business stakeholders to discuss security risks and identify additional changes to security architecture diagrams.

Level of Responsibility:

•    Working independently with no supervision.

•    Taking responsibility for own work and making decisions with more significant in their impact, influencing overall program or project success, finances, and/or the ability to meet objectives; errors are not readily apparent due to the complexity of work process/product or time between decisions and results; errors typically result in significant expenditure of time, resources, and funds to correct.

•    Using verbal and written communication skills to convey complex and/or detailed information to multiple individuals/audiences with differing knowledge levels. Role may require strong negotiation and influence, communication to large groups or high-level constituents.

•    Having a great degree of influence over key organizational decisions (e.g., is making or directly making key decisions that have substantial impact on the organization).

•    Using deductive and inductive problem solving is required; multiple approaches may be taken/necessary to solve the problem; often information is missing or conflicting; advanced data analysis and interpretation skills are required.

•    Exercising exceptional creativity is needed to innovate new ideas and develop innovative products/ processes without established objectives or known parameters.

•    Occasionally participates in strategic planning within own area affecting immediate operations.

Although this role has some expected minor physical activity, this should not deter otherwise qualified applicants from applying. If you are an individual with a physical or mental disability and need an accommodation during the application/hiring process, please call Qualcomm’s toll-free number found here for assistance. Qualcomm will provide reasonable accommodations, upon request, to support individuals with disabilities as part of our ongoing efforts to create an accessible workplace.

Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer and supports workforce diversity.

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Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.

Pay range:

$172,500.00 - $258,500.00 The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm.  We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus).  In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer!

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