Embedded Engineer, Vehicle Security

About Harbinger

Harbinger is an American commercial electric vehicle (EV) company on a mission to transform an industry starving for innovation. Harbingers best-in-class team of EV battery and drivetrain experts have pooled their deep experience to bring a first-of-its-kind EV platform to support the growing demand for medium-duty EVs and Hybrids. Harbinger: Familiar Form Revolutionary Foundation.

Embedded Engineer Vehicle Security

About the Team

At Harbinger Motors were building the next generation of electric medium-duty trucks and chassis systems. Our clean-sheet platform combines advanced embedded control drive-by-wire and electrified powertrain technologies to deliver a safer smarter and more efficient vehicle foundation.

As part of the Software team youll focus on securing the embedded systems that power Harbingers vehicles. From bootloaders and firmware to in-vehicle networks and update mechanisms youll help ensure that our software is resilient against cyber threats and built with safety and trust at its core.

What Youll Do

• Collaborate with software and hardware teams to design and implement security-critical features for embedded controllers and vehicle networks.
  
  
• Develop and maintain secure embedded Linux and RTOS environments across control modules for propulsion chassis and body systems.
  
  
• Design and integrate mechanisms for:
  
  
• Secure boot and firmware integrity verification
  
  
• Cryptographic key management and hardware security modules (HSMs)
  
  
• Secure OTA (over-the-air) updates and signed software deployment
  
  
• Encrypted and authenticated vehicle communications (CAN CAN FD Automotive Ethernet)
  
  
• Trusted execution environments (ARM TrustZone TPMs)
  
  
• Participate in threat modeling secure code reviews and vulnerability assessments.
  
  
• Support compliance with emerging vehicle security standards (ISO/SAE 21434 UNECE WP.29 R155/R156).
  
  
• Contribute to system-level design decisions that strengthen the vehicles overall security architecture.
  
  

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Engineering Electrical Engineering Computer Science or a related field.
  
  
• 3 years of experience developing and securing embedded systems (Linux or RTOS).
  
  
• Strong proficiency in C C and/or Rust for low-level software development.
  
  
• Experience in at least one of the following:
  
  
• Linux kernel or driver development
  
  
• Platform firmware (U-Boot EDK2)
  
  
• Trusted OS development (OP-TEE Trusty)
  
  
• Security co-processor or TPM firmware
  
  
• Familiarity with ARM-based SoCs used in automotive or industrial applications (e.g. NXP Renesas NVIDIA Jetson TI).
  
  
• Working knowledge of vehicle communication protocols (CAN LIN Automotive Ethernet).
  
  
• Must be a U.S. Person due to access to export-controlled technology.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience implementing security features in automotive or commercial EV platforms especially medium-duty trucks or chassis control systems.
  
  
• Familiarity with drive-by-wire architectures domain controllers or electrified chassis systems.
  
  
• Knowledge of AUTOSAR Security secure diagnostics (UDS) or secure update frameworks.
  
  
• Understanding of functional safety (ISO 26262) and its relationship to security.
  
  

Experience with cryptography PKI or secure manufacturing and provisioning processes for embedded ECUs.