{
    "position": {
        "id": "ON-DS-3302",
        "slug": "security-assurance-engineer-aegis-platform",
        "title": "Security Assurance Engineer — Aegis Platform",
        "division": "defense",
        "region": "americas",
        "level": "principal",
        "location": "Arlington, VA",
        "site": "Secure facility",
        "clearance": "TS · SCI",
        "employment": "Full-time · On site",
        "travel": "Occasional — deployment sites",
        "reports_to": "Chief Engineer, Aegis",
        "featured": false,
        "summary": "Hold the assurance case for a defensive platform that takes autonomous action on live infrastructure. The role is adversarial by design: your job is to establish, in evidence, that the platform does what it claims and stops where it is supposed to stop.",
        "responsibilities": [
            "Own the platform assurance case — claims, arguments, and the evidence that supports each.",
            "Design and oversee verification of the constraints that bound autonomous action.",
            "Lead adversarial assessment of the platform against realistic attacker models, in a controlled environment.",
            "Sign, or decline to sign, the assurance position at each deployment gate.",
            "Work with Ethics & Governance on the disclosure and accountability provisions attached to autonomous response."
        ],
        "required": [
            "Twelve or more years in security engineering, assurance, or safety-critical verification.",
            "Experience building an assurance or safety case that an external authority accepted.",
            "Deep understanding of control-system and network security in an operational setting.",
            "Willingness to hold a negative position under schedule pressure.",
            "Active or eligible TS · SCI; vetting is sponsored."
        ],
        "preferred": [
            "Formal methods or model-based verification background.",
            "Experience with accreditation under a recognised assurance framework.",
            "Prior work on systems with autonomous or automated actuation."
        ],
        "team": "Aegis engineering is a large, compartmented programme. The assurance group is intentionally independent of delivery management and reports through the Chief Engineer.",
        "notes": "This role has stop authority. That authority is written into the offer, not implied.",
        "division_label": "Defense & Security",
        "region_label": "Americas",
        "level_label": "Principal",
        "url": "role.php?job=security-assurance-engineer-aegis-platform",
        "apply": "mailto:careers@omninova.global?subject=Application%20%E2%80%94%20Security%20Assurance%20Engineer%20%E2%80%94%20Aegis%20Platform%20%28ON-DS-3302%29"
    }
}