Hiring: Director - Product Security Company: Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies Location: Palo Alto, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-11 11:57:08 Employment Type: Full-time Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, Azure, CI/CD, DAST, Data Pipeline, Embedded Systems, Firmware, GCP, Penetration Testing, SAST, SBOM, Systems Engineering About the job Experience: •12+ years of progressive experience in cybersecurity, with at least 5 years in product security leadership at a software-defined product company (automotive, consumer electronics, aerospace, robotics, or similar). •At least 5 years in product security leadership at a software-defined product company (automotive, consumer electronics, aerospace, robotics, or similar). Required Skills: •Incident Response & PSIRT: Build and lead the Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) for RV Tech. Establish coordinated disclosure processes, incident playbooks, and executive communication frameworks. Ensure rapid and effective response to security incidents affecting vehicle or platform software. •Team Leadership & Talent Development: Inspire a high-performance product security team across Palo Alto, Irvine, Vancouver and Berlin. Create a culture of ownership, technical excellence, and continuous improvement while fostering collaboration across the RV Tech core engineering team and parent companies. Qualifications: •Deep technical expertise in application security, embedded systems security, or automotive cybersecurity with a hands-on engineering background, not purely managerial. •Demonstrated experience leading and upleveling an inherited product security or AppSec team, developing people, elevating practices, and driving execution within an existing org structure. Greenfield build experience is a plus but not the primary requirement for this role. •Proven ability to influence and drive security posture across engineering organizations without direct authority - the credibility to be taken seriously in a room full of elite engineers. •Strong working knowledge of threat modeling methodologies (eg STRIDE, PASTA, TARA), secure SDLC practices, and vulnerability management programs including coordinated disclosure. •Track record of operating at the executive level presenting to the board, partnering with the C-suite, and translating deeply technical risk into business-level language. •B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience. •Direct experience with ISO/SAE 21434, UN Regulation No. 155, NHTSA cybersecurity best practices, or other automotive-specific cybersecurity frameworks. •Background in embedded security, firmware security, or hardware security (e.g. HSMs, secure boot, cryptographic key management in constrained environments). •Operational familiarity with AI/ML security: adversarial robustness, model integrity, and securing inference pipelines in safety-critical systems. Compensation: •$240,700 - $395,350 / year •Competitive benefits and rewards package •In addition to a competitive base salary, full-time positions may be is eligible to participate in our annual company performance bonus program Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!