Staff/Sr. Staff Security Engineer/Researcher

about 3 years ago
Full time role
San Jose, CA, US... more
San Jose, CA, US... more

Company

NIO’s mission is to shape a joyful lifestyle by offering premium smart electric vehicles and providing the best user experience. ...

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Job Description

OverviewThe Security Research team works on vehicle security on all NIO vehicles (e.g., ES8, ES6, ET7), from the on-board vehicle system, back-end infrastructure to the Autonomous Driving (AD) system. Our team helps the company build an end-to-end security system for R&D, production and manufacturing.
As an AD security researcher, you will be responsible for the security research of NIO's autonomous driving system, like system security research, AI algorithm security research, etc.  This will be the first specialized role in this field, and you will have the opportunity to deploy your security research results in the world's leading autonomous driving system. In addition, you will collaborate with top-tier researchers and professors from top Universities.

Responsibilities

  • Participate in the architectural design and function definition of the autonomous driving system, identify attack surface through threat analysis, and propose the corresponding mitigation solutions
  • Propose system hardening schemes for autonomous driving systems
  • Work on security penetration testing on the automatic driving system, address security bugs with the engineering development team
  • Research the frontier security issues in the current automatic driving system, including the robustness of multi-sensor fusion algorithms, the trustworthiness and authenticity of sensor signals (such as GPS), and the security and reliability of AI models of the automatic driving system.
  • Research current frontier security issues of machine learning, including adversarial machine learning, AI model attack and defense, etc.

Qualifications

  • Master’s degree in computer science, information security or related major
  • 3+ years of related work experience
  • Familiar with various machine learning models, able to use at least one machine learning framework, such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, etc.
  • Familiar with AD security and/or AI security, such as adversarial machine learning, AI model robustness, etc.
  • Familiar with automotive electronics, microcontrollers and embedded operating systems (Linux, QNX, FreeRTOS, etc.) 
  • Have relevant security research experience 
  • Proficiency in at least one programming language (C/C++/Python)

Preferred Qualifications

  • PhD in computer science, information security or related major with publications 
  • Experience in mining vulnerabilities based on machine learning 
  • Top team leaders/members participation in CTF and GeekPwn attack competitions (such as NIPS Adversarial Vision Challenge, and GeekPwn International Cybersecurity and AI Contest Challenge) 
About NIO    NIO Inc. is a pioneer in China’s premium smart electric vehicle market. Founded in November 2014, NIO’s mission is to shape a joyful lifestyle. NIO aims to build a community starting with smart electric vehicles to share joy and grow together with users. NIO designs, jointly manufactures, and sells smart premium electric vehicles, driving innovations in next-generation technologies in connectivity, autonomous driving, and artificial intelligence. Redefining the user experience, NIO provides users with comprehensive and convenient power solutions, innovative Battery as a Service (BaaS) program, and other user-centric services. NIO began deliveries of the ES8, a 7-seater flagship premium electric SUV, in China in June 2018, and its variant, the 6-seater ES8, in March 2019. NIO officially launched the ES6, a 5-seater high-performance premium electric SUV, in December 2018 and began deliveries of the ES6 in June 2019. NIO officially launched the EC6, a 5-seater premium electric coupe SUV, in December 2019 and began deliveries of the EC6 in September 2020.
Equal Employment Opportunity   NIO is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity. We recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote without regard to race, color, age, sex, ancestry, marital status, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, present or past history of mental disability, genetic information or any other classification protected by state or federal law. NIO US is an E-Verify employer.

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