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The Exploration Company is building spacecraft for humanity and seeks a Project Security Officer to serve as the primary security interface for the Nyx project. You will connect Mission Operations with central security functions, engineering teams, suppliers, and external partners, translating security requirements into practical, verifiable controls across mission systems.
You will work hands-on with engineers, technicians, and operators from concept through operations, acting as the single point of contact for all security-related topics on the project. Key responsibilities include translating company policies, customer requirements, regulations, and threat intelligence into project-specific security requirements, architectures, procedures, and verification criteria. You will maintain an integrated project security risk picture across cyber, physical, personnel, supply-chain, export-control, and security-architecture domains.
You will flow security requirements into systems, subsystems, suppliers, and operations, verifying their implementation with objective evidence. Working hands-on with engineers and the security team, you will implement secure configurations, access controls, segmentation, monitoring, vulnerability remediation, encryption, and other cybersecurity controls. You will support threat modeling, risk assessments, security-by-design, system reviews, supplier assessments, security readiness, and assurance activities throughout the project lifecycle.
The role requires strong communication, organization, project-management, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to build trust across Corporate IT, engineering, suppliers, central security functions, and Mission Operations.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor's degree in cybersecurity, computer science, engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- 3+ years of relevant experience in cybersecurity engineering, systems security, infrastructure security, operational technology, embedded security, project security, or a related hands-on field
- Experience working across multiple technical domains (networks, operating systems, applications, communications, embedded systems, hardware, data centers)
- Experience translating security requirements, policies, regulations, or customer expectations into system designs, technical controls, configurations, tests, procedures, and objective evidence
- Experience in security risk management, including risk-based vulnerability prioritization, threat and risk analysis, security testing, incident response, supplier and supply-chain security, and secure system integration
- Practical experience configuring, hardening, troubleshooting, or monitoring real systems—not only reviewing designs or producing documentation
- Ability to integrate cyber, physical, personnel, supply-chain, export-control, and security-architecture considerations into a coherent project-security approach
BONUS QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience working with operators in control rooms, mission-control environments, NOCs, SOCs, launch campaigns, test operations, or other time-critical operational settings
- Experience securing spacecraft, launch systems, ground stations, mission-control centers, satellite communications, telemetry systems, or other complex control systems
- Experience integrating security into system design, supplier agreements, procurement, verification, acceptance, and operational readiness
- Familiarity with cybersecurity, space, export-control, or customer frameworks (NIST CSF, ISO 27001, IEC 62443, ECSS, or applicable national requirements)
- Relevant certifications or demonstrated experience with security tooling, automation, vulnerability assessment, monitoring, detection, or incident response
