Cyber Security Engineer

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This Position reports to:

R&D Team Lead

Your role and responsibilities:

In this role, you will contribute to improving the cybersecurity of grid automation products, embedded systems, and industrial solutions through security assessments, threat modelling, risk analysis, vulnerability management, and compliance activities. You will support product and system/solution certification, ensuring alignment with IEC 62443 standards, the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), and applicable cybersecurity regulations.

The work model for the role is:

This role contributes to the Electrification Business, Distribution Solutions Division in Bangalore, India.

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Conduct cybersecurity assessments of products, embedded systems, software, and industrial solutions to identify security gaps, evaluate risks, and recommend mitigation measures.
• Perform threat modelling, attack-surface analysis, risk assessments, and threat mitigation planning throughout the product development lifecycle.
• Assess compliance with applicable IEC 62443 standards, including IEC 62443-3-3, IEC 62443-4-1, IEC 62443-4-2, and IEC 62443-3-2, and support compliance gap assessments and remediation plans.
• Support product and system/solution cybersecurity certification, including pre-assessments, evidence preparation, audit coordination, and closure of non-conformities.
• Evaluate product cybersecurity requirements under the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), monitor regulatory developments, and support compliance documentation and readiness activities.
• Manage product vulnerabilities through identification, risk-based prioritization, remediation tracking, verification, and closure, including third-party component and SBOM reviews.
• Prepare cybersecurity assessment reports, threat registers, compliance matrices, risk summaries, and technical documentation, ensuring traceability of findings and mitigation activities.

Qualifications for the role:

• Degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Electronics, Electrical Engineering, or a closely related discipline, with approximately 4 years of relevant experience in product cybersecurity, security assessment, embedded systems, or industrial cybersecurity.
• Hands-on experience in cybersecurity assessments, threat modelling, risk analysis, and mitigation planning.
• Working knowledge of the IEC 62443 series, particularly product and system cybersecurity requirements, and experience supporting compliance assessments.
• Knowledge of the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), product cybersecurity obligations, and certification processes.
• Practical experience in vulnerability management, CVE/CVSS-based risk assessment, remediation tracking, and security verification.
• Ability to review security architectures, technical specifications, design documents, and security testing reports. Familiarity with SBOMs, software vulnerabilities, penetration testing, security scanning, and embedded or industrial communication technologies.
• Relevant cybersecurity certifications or training in IEC 62443, industrial cybersecurity, product security, or risk assessment is an advantage

More about us :

ABB's Distribution Solutions Division facilitates the efficient and reliable distribution, protection and control of power by improving electric power quality while strengthening the resilience of the grid. The Division offers segment-specific products and solutions that largely serve utilities, industry and infrastructure segments, often providing the requisite medium-voltage link between high-voltage transmission systems and low-voltage users. With ABB Ability™ enabled connected solutions at its core, the offering includes medium-voltage air- and gas-insulated switchgear (1 to 66 kilovolts), indoor and outdoor circuit breakers, reclosers, fuses, contactors, relays, instrument transformers, sensors, motor control centers, as well as low-voltage switchgear for the ANSI standard markets.

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