Senior Penetration Tester

Mission Summary

We are looking to add a Senior Penetration Tester to our Red Team in order to create an industry-leading, secure autonomous vehicle. You will uncover security issues in existing and future autonomous vehicle components, self-driving vehicles, and the autonomous driving ecosystem. This position is primarily focused on testing onboard hardware and software.

The Motional Pittsburgh office is located in the new Hazelwood Green development at 4734 Second Avenue, a culmination of the city’s goal of restoring an economic driver to the neighborhood in a thoughtful, inclusive, and sustainable way. With views along the Monongahela river, the Pittsburgh office is in the heart of this new state of the art development.

**This position requires the ability to work onsite in our Pittsburgh location** 

What You'll Be Doing

• Conduct penetration tests on software, sensors, compute nodes, ECUs, etc. in our in-house lab.
• Work with external Red Teams to conduct autonomous vehicle assessments.
• Develop sophisticated, state-of-the-art attacks that integrate the latest attack methods against embedded products.
• Perform research on new attack vectors, discover new vulnerabilities, create new exploitation techniques.
• Create Proof of Concepts (PoC) and documentation.
• Development of threat models for both individual components, vehicles, and the vehicle ecosystem.
• Work with other Cybersecurity team members to shape the company’s security best practices and clearly communicate current risk posture.
• Work in a fast-paced work environment while collaborating on both offensive and defensive Cybersecurity measures.

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years experience penetration testing embedded systems.
• Experience in reverse engineering CISC and RISC  (e.g. ARM, MIPS, and other architectures) assembly languages. 
• Experience with Linux and Unix-like systems as a work environment and attack target. 
• Experience with threat modeling, hardware hacking, and report generation.
• Soldering skills to remove flash chips and solder test leads.
• Reverse Engineering embedded systems.
• Experience with JTAG, UART, I2C, SPI, USB.
• Experience with Logic Analyzers.

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors including but not limited to specific skills, experience and expertise, role location, certifications, licenses, and business needs. The estimated compensation range listed in this job posting reflects base salary only. This role may include additional forms of compensation such as a bonus or company equity. The recruiter assigned to this role can share more information about the specific compensation and benefit details associated with this role during the hiring process. 

Candidates for certain positions are eligible to participate in Motional’s benefits program. Motional’s benefits include but are not limited to medical, dental, vision, 401k with a company match, health saving accounts, life insurance, pet insurance, and more.

Salary Range$159,000—$207,000 USD

Motional is a driverless technology company making autonomous vehicles a safe, reliable, and accessible reality. We’re driven by something more.

Our journey is always people first.

We aren't just developing driverless cars; we're creating safer roadways, more equitable transportation options, and making our communities better places to live, work, and connect. Our team is made up of engineers, researchers, innovators, dreamers and doers, who are creating a technology with the potential to transform the way we move.

Higher purpose, greater impact.

We’re creating first-of-its-kind technology that will transform transportation. To do so successfully, we must design for everyone in our cities and on our roads. We believe in building a great place to work through a progressive, global culture that is diverse, inclusive, and ensures people feel valued at every level of the organization. Diversity helps us to see the world differently; it’s not only good for our business, it’s the right thing to do.  

Scale up, not starting up.

Our team is behind some of the industry's largest leaps forward, including the first fully-autonomous cross-country drive in the U.S, the launch of the world's first robotaxi pilot, and operation of the world's longest-standing public robotaxi fleet. We’re driven to scale; we’re moving towards commercialization of our technology, and we need team members who are ready to embrace change and challenges.

Formed as a joint venture between Hyundai Motor Group and Aptiv, Motional is fundamentally changing how people move through their lives. Headquartered in Boston, Motional has operations in the U.S and Asia. For more information, visit  www.Motional.com and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.

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