Graduate Product Security Engineer
Company: Boeing Defence United Kingdom Limited
We’re looking for a Graduate Product Security Engineer to join our growing team in Bristol and help shape the future of integrating security and resiliency across our products and services. Product security engineering is a cross‑cutting function and a critical element of designing, delivering, and maintaining Boeing products and services. Our mission is to influence designs and implement security solutions that protect product integrity.
Position Responsibilities
- Assists with the identification and support of product security requirements and architectures to meet certification and customer requirements.
- Participates in design and build activities to help integrate security features into products and services.
- Applies cybersecurity risk analysis techniques and supports threat assessments by collecting and documenting likelihood, impact, and mitigation information.
- Contributes to security assessments and audits to help identify vulnerabilities and recommend mitigations.
- Supports integration of security practices across the product life cycle through collaboration with cross‑functional teams.
- Communicates product security implications to internal stakeholders.
- Supports Senior PSEs in coordinating activities with governments, customers, suppliers, and industry to identify risks and help improve program and interfacing‑system security standards and requirements.
- Gathers and applies cyber threat intelligence findings to inform product security activities.
- Participates in research and development tasks aligned to PSE goals and objectives and assists with basic R&D activities.
- Performs assigned system analysis and trade studies to help define technical concepts and proposed security solutions.
- Helps develop and improve tools, processes, and efficiencies to increase team productivity.
- Participates in program boards and reviews: collects data, prepares briefings, documents action items, and facilitates cross‑team collaboration.
- Monitors emerging threats, vulnerabilities, and security technologies and reports findings to the team to improve product security posture.
- Assists with ensuring security of equipment, tools, data, networks, and resources used for product design, development, build, test, storage, delivery, operations, and support.
- Responds to assigned security‑related requests and documents outcomes for review by senior engineers.
- Supports advisement activities by assisting with preparation of materials that describe security and certification considerations for customers, including potential consequences of modifying products and services.
Basic Qualifications (Required)
- Ability to obtain UK Security Clearance.
- Hands‑on coursework, internships, or practical experience in:
- Cybersecurity and security risk / threat assessment
- Security design and analysis
- Network security architecture
- Embedded systems security and cyber‑physical systems
- Systems hardening and security control implementation
- Cryptography and PKI
- Security testing and evaluation
- Trusted computing & anti‑tamper engineering
- Aircraft communications standards & protocols (ARINC 400, 600, 800 series etc.)
- Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
Preferred Qualifications (Desired)
- Understanding of Concept of Operations (ConOps), requirements development, and use‑case definition.
- Exposure to risk assessment and management, including threat modelling and vulnerability analysis for networked and embedded systems.
- Familiarity with cybersecurity audits & investigations and security incident response practices.
- Awareness of malware analysis, attack surface reduction, and security analysis techniques.
- Knowledge or interest in DevSecOps principles and practices.
- Familiarity with common networking and computing protocols and architectures (TCP/IP, OSI, UDP, serial/parallel communications, bus architectures).
- Understanding of hardware and software integration processes and secure‑by‑design principles.
- Familiarity with relevant standards and frameworks, including RTCA/EUROCAE: DO‑326B/ED‑202B, DO‑356A/ED‑203A, NIST: RMF and SPs 800‑30, 800‑53, 800‑160, ISO/IEC: 27001/27002, 62443, DEFSTAN: 05‑138, 05‑139.
- Experience using or willingness to learn Model‑Based Engineering tools and languages such as UML/SysML, 3DX, CATIA, Cameo, and MagicDraw.
- Participation in competitions, collaborative projects, or contributions to student/professional organizations focused on cybersecurity and systems engineering is a plus.
Typical Education & Experience
Level 1: Typically 0–2 years of related work experience or an equivalent combination of technical education and experience.
Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Engineering, Engineering Technology (including Manufacturing Engineering Technology), Computer Science, Engineering Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, or Chemistry.
Early‑career security certifications such as CompTIA Security+, (ISC)2 Certified in Cybersecurity, entry‑level Cisco certifications, or similar are desirable.
Location & Work Arrangement
Bristol, United Kingdom (hybrid: 3 days per week on‑site). This position does not offer relocation; candidates must live in the immediate Bristol area or relocate at their own expense.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and annual incentive plans.
- Continuous learning support.
- Flexible work arrangements to achieve a definition of success that matters to you.
- Diverse and inclusive culture with opportunities for professional growth.
- 23 days of annual leave plus UK public holidays and a winter break between Christmas and New Year.
- Pension plan with 10% employer contribution.
- Company‑paid BUPA medical plan.
- Short‑term sickness: 100% pay for the first 26 weeks; long‑term sickness: 66.67% of annual salary from week 27.
- Life insurance of 6× annual salary.
- Learning Together Programme for personal and career development.
- Access to Boeing’s Well‑Being programs.
- Parental leave options.
Boeing is committed to protecting, connecting and exploring our world and beyond, safely and sustainably. We’re focused on inclusive and respectful work environments that welcome every teammate and offer great opportunities for growth.
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