Design Certification Engineer 1

Garmin is seeking a full-time Design Certification Engineer - Security to focus on developing product security solutions for our aviation products. In this role, you will work closely with our design teams to develop security risk assessments, threat scenarios, and test the security posture of our equipment.

Essential Functions

• Draft and submit certification documentation required by TSOs and other regulatory standards to the appropriate certification authority
• Lead project engineering teams in executing projects according to development processes to ensure compliance with all applicable certification requirements
• Use project management skills to coordinate project schedules and deliverables per aviation processes
• Perform unit level safety and security analysis and requirement generation
• Coordinate technical compliance documentation and testing for applicable local, national, and international standards and regulations (e.g. FCC, CE, ANATEL, RED, EAR)
• Contribute to project engineering teams to design, validate, and verify aviation projects
• Organize and guide project testing and document results in test reports
• Update Garmin’s processes and products for new regulations, enhanced safety and security requirements, and improved efficiency
• Contribute to product concept and development plans through collaboration with design engineering teams
• Balance multiple projects and work with multidisciplinary teams
• Conduct risk assessments and develop threat scenarios
• Define security measures to disposition threat scenarios
• Create product documentation to support releases and certifications
• Work closely with project software teams to implement security features
• Investigate software and equipment functions to support investigations and questions
• Conduct exploratory fuzz and penetration testing
• Develop tools to automate analysis
• Manage supplier technologies
• Create and maintain vulnerability dossiers
• Conduct security reviews of project changes and problem reports
• Maintain and improve security processes

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical, Computer Science, Aerospace, Computer Engineering, or another similar technical degree
• Excellent academics (cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 3.0 as a general rule) with the demonstrated ability to apply learned knowledge
• Must possess demonstrated knowledge, education, and/or training of basic circuits (Digital, FPGA, Analog and/or RF)
• Demonstrated strong and effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• Superior organizational and analytical skills with keen attention to detail and quality
• Must be team-oriented, possess a positive attitude and work well with others, ensuring successful achievement of company goals
• Ability to prioritize and multi-task in a flexible, fast paced and challenging environment

• Outstanding academics (cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 3.5)
• Superior personal and team oriented organizational skills
• Knowledge and/or training with technical writing and reviewing
• Knowledge and/or training with avionics
• Demonstrated proficiency and experience necessary to develop moderately complex software in C, Python, or other languages
• Problem solving ability
• Ability to develop software, perform security testing, or conduct security risk assessments in accordance with industry standards (e.g. DO-178, DO-254, DO-326A)
• Experience with aviation certification standards
• Aviation experience or knowledge

This position is eligible for Garmin's benefit program. Details can be found here: Garmin Benefits