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The successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring Vertiv products meet evolving cybersecurity expectations while maintaining reliability and performance in critical customer environments.\nResponsibilities:\n Investigate reported and internally discovered firmware vulnerabilities across embedded and gateway platforms. \nPerform security analysis of embedded firmware packages, update mechanisms, and exposed interfaces (network, diagnostic, field service). \nSupport secure boot, firmware signing, and update validation implementations in collaboration with firmware engineering teams. \nConduct threat modeling and risk assessments for embedded platforms and interface exposure. \nDrive vulnerability response workflows, including root cause analysis, remediation tracking, and verification. \nEnsure alignment with product cybersecurity standards and regulations, including IEC 62443, ISO 27001, NIS2, and CRA-related obligations. \nReview and maintain SBOMs and supplier security documentation to support compliance and supply-chain security requirements. \nPartner with QA and firmware teams on security testing, validation, and release readiness. \nContribute to internal security requirements, checklists, and conformance matrices for embedded platforms. \n Required Experience\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field. \n3+ years of experience resolving security issues in embedded firmware\n\n3+ years of experience with Linux-based secure firmware development and testing\n\n3+ years of experience using the C/C++ programming language\n\nWorking knowledge of embedded security concepts, including secure boot, firmware signing, cryptography, and secure update mechanisms. \nFamiliarity with networked embedded systems and common protocols (e.g., TCP/IP, TLS, diagnostics interfaces). \nAbility to collaborate effectively with cross-functional engineering, quality, and compliance teams. \nPreferred Experience\nExperience with product cybersecurity standards such as IEC 62443, ISO/SAE 21434, or similar industrial/OT security frameworks. \nFamiliarity with SBOM formats and tooling (e.g., CycloneDX, SPDX). \nExperience supporting security compliance or regulatory readiness for embedded products. \nBackground in firmware development using C/C++ or reviewing embedded firmware code for security considerations. \nUnderstanding of secure device lifecycle concepts, including manufacturing security, provisioning, and field updates.\nThe successful candidate will embrace Vertiv’s Core Principals & Behaviors to help execute our Strategic Priorities.\nOUR CORE PRINCIPALS: Safety. Integrity. Respect. Teamwork. Inclusion.\nOUR STRATEGIC PRIORITIES\nHigh-Performance Culture\nCustomer Focus\nOperational Excellence\nInnovation\nFinancial Strength\nVERTIV BEHAVIORS\nOwn it\nAct with urgency\nFoster a customer-first mindset\nThink big and execute\nLead by example\nDrive continuous improvement\nLearn and seek out development\nPromote transparent & open communication \nAbout Vertiv\nVertiv (NYSE: VRT) brings together hardware, software, analytics and ongoing services to enable its customers’ vital applications to run continuously, perform optimally and grow with their business needs. Vertiv solves the most important challenges facing today’s data centers, communication networks and commercial and industrial facilities with a portfolio of power, cooling and IT infrastructure solutions and services that extend from the cloud to the edge of the network. Headquartered in Westerville, Ohio, USA, Vertiv employs around 34,000 people and does business in more than 130 countries. Visit Vertiv.com to learn more.\nWork Authorization\nNo calls or agencies please. Vertiv will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States. This is not a position for which sponsorship will be provided. Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1, H-1, H-2, L, B, J, or TN or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire.\nEqual Opportunity Employer\nVertiv is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. 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