Offboard Cybersecurity Technical Specialist

Ford Motor Company • Dearborn, MI

1d • $132,800 - $250,800

About The Position

At Ford Motor Company, securing the digital ecosystem that connects our customers, vehicles, partners, products, and services is critical to maintaining trust and enabling safe, reliable connected experiences. The Offboard Cybersecurity organization protects Ford’s mobile and web applications, APIs, cloud services, connected platforms, charging and energy infrastructure, partner integrations, and cryptographic trust services. We are seeking a technical leader to join our Vehicle and Connected Cybersecurity organization as an Offboard Cybersecurity Technical Specialist. This role will provide technical leadership and hands-on guidance across the offboard cybersecurity space, supporting the API Security, Application Security, Charging Security, and PKI/KMS teams while also partnering with Compliance, Monitoring/SOC, Onboard Cybersecurity, architecture, product, and engineering organizations. This is a unique opportunity to shape how Ford secures its offboard product ecosystem. You will help resolve complex and ambiguous security problems, develop practical standards and reusable patterns, support threat modeling for high-risk systems, mentor cybersecurity engineers, evaluate emerging technologies, and ensure offboard security needs are represented in department-wide initiatives and decisions. Reporting to the Director of Offboard Architecture & Strategy, you will act as a cross-domain technical authority and force multiplier, helping the offboard cybersecurity organization make consistent, risk-based, and technically grounded decisions across a rapidly evolving connected services landscape.

Requirements

• Technical leadership in offboard cybersecurity.
• Hands-on guidance in API Security, Application Security, Charging Security, and PKI/KMS.
• Collaboration with Compliance, Monitoring/SOC, Onboard Cybersecurity, architecture, product, and engineering.
• Ability to resolve complex and ambiguous security problems.
• Experience developing practical standards and reusable patterns.
• Experience supporting threat modeling for high-risk systems.
• Mentoring cybersecurity engineers.
• Evaluating emerging technologies.
• Ensuring offboard security needs are represented in initiatives and decisions.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and hands-on guidance across the offboard cybersecurity space.
• Support the API Security, Application Security, Charging Security, and PKI/KMS teams.
• Partner with Compliance, Monitoring/SOC, Onboard Cybersecurity, architecture, product, and engineering organizations.
• Resolve complex and ambiguous security problems.
• Develop practical standards and reusable patterns.
• Support threat modeling for high-risk systems.
• Mentor cybersecurity engineers.
• Evaluate emerging technologies.
• Ensure offboard security needs are represented in department-wide initiatives and decisions.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed