Senior IoT Security Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Salary : 120k - 150k

Are you passionate about shaping the future of humanity's presence in space? Lunar Outpost, a trailblazer in space robotics, invites you to join our team! Lunar Outpost is dedicated to creating a sustainable presence in space, while also driving positive impacts here on Earth. We areseekinga talented, experienced Senior IoT Security Engineer to define the future of secure space swarms in a fast-paced startup environment. As a Senior Network Security Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in designing and implementing resilient, lightweight, and decentralized security solutions for edge environments. This role is ideal for someone with a strong understanding of network protocol security, distributed systems, and the unique constraints of non-traditional network environments such as space systems, remote IoT clusters, or tactical edge nodes. Yourexpertisewill be critical to ensuring the security of ground-breaking missions and technologies that have the potential tobenefithumanity on Earth.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement secure networking protocols for resource-constrained edge devices, including peer discovery, authentication, encryption, and secure routing
• Design trust models that are delay-tolerant, with limited access to centralized authorities
• Develop mitigation strategies against physical compromise, firmware tampering, and local denial-of-service attacks
• Integrate anomaly detection, intrusion prevention, or lightweight IDS / IPS solutions tailored to edge constraints
• Evaluate and optimize performance of novel network topologies in hardware-in-loop simulations, field-tests, and physical deployments (e.g., orbital, aerial, ground)
• Collaborate with systems, mechanical, electrical, and thermal engineering teams to integrate andoptimizeautonomy software on space and ground assets
• Stay abreast of advancements in cybersecurity, networking, and space exploration technologies,leveragingnew findings to enhance our systems
• Develop andmaintaintechnical documentation, including ICDs and verification plans
• Participate in design reviews, trade studies, and technical risk assessments
• Ensure software systems adhere to industry standards for security, reliability, and performance in space exploration contexts

Required Qualifications

Securing or developing mesh networks (e.g.,802.11s, batmand, OLSR)

Preferred Qualifications

Lunar Outpost is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate against protected characteristics (gender, age, sexual orientation, race, nationality, ethnicity, religion, disability, veteran status.) We want all employees (including executives andHR) to treat others with respect and professionalism.