Description

SIGNIFICANCE

• Is willing to grow into an automotive cybersecurity expert, which supports and shall be supported by the persons and organizational entities that carry out cybersecurity activities during system/ product development.
• Through training and practical experience, provides automotive cybersecurity competence and capacity together with some project management competence

TARGETS

• Works with cybersecurity team to ensure that:

1. a) product cybersecurity threats are identified, prioritized, and appropriate countermeasures are defined, implemented and tested in hardware and/or software on assigned embedded projects
2. b) Project teams are coached to comply with ISO-SAE 21434 cybersecurity standard and UNECE WP29/R155

POSITION IN THE ORGANIZATION

• Assigned by Project Manager as part of the project team(s), at the initiation of the product development
• Reports to the Product Cybersecurity Director in a central role supporting multiple product lines

SKILLS

• At least 3 years experience in automotive/commercial vehicle electronic HW/SW development
• Interest and willingness to learn application of automotive cybersecurity threat mitigations, including design techniques, implementation methods, verification and validation, penetration testing, forensic analysis, incident response, vulnerability management
• Demonstrated ability to work in a multi-national company with counterparts in other countries
• Interdisciplinary systematic thinking / system comprehension / team player

TASKS

• Responsible for assigned cybersecurity activities within assigned project(s)
• Plans and monitors the progress of assigned cybersecurity activities against the project’s cybersecurity plan
• Contributes improvement ideas and lessons learned to Product Cybersecurity Director for continuous improvement of the cybersecurity activities in the corporate development process

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Ensures that assigned cybersecurity activities are fulfilled on assigned project(s)
• Supports product cybersecurity discussions with customers on assigned project(s)
• Duty to inform the BU/CoC Cybersecurity Director in case of cybersecurity risks/ deviations/ conflicts with project team or customer direction (Escalation)
• If required, aligns cybersecurity issues in advance with BU/ CoC Cybersecurity Director before presenting in Core Team
• Ensures that their judgements regarding the achievements of cybersecurity within a pre-gate review is aligned with the chosen Cybersecurity Assessor

AUTHORITIES

• Aligns with Project Quality Manager and Project Manager on work packages to be handled (tailoring)
• Technical contributor to cybersecurity issues within the scope of the agreed work packages and skillset
• Works with the appropriate project team members (e.g., systems engineer, electronic hardware engineer, software engineer) to assure cybersecurity requirements are assigned, understood, implemented, and tested for assigned projects
• Coordinates and confirms cybersecurity development interface agreement with customers on assigned project(s)
• Confirms cybersecurity items on pre-gate review checklists are completed to an acceptable level for the project to proceed

Required Skills Required Experience