Project Security Officer

About the role

The Exploration Company is building spacecrafts for humanity and is seeking 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 to translate requirements into practical, verifiable controls across mission systems. This role involves working hands-on with engineers, technicians, and operators throughout the project lifecycle from concept through operations.

Responsibilities

• Act as the single point of contact for security-related topics on the Nyx project.
• Translate company policies, customer requirements, regulations, and threat intelligence into project-specific security requirements, architectures, procedures, and verification criteria.
• Maintain the integrated project security risk picture across cyber, physical, personnel, supply-chain, export-control, and security-architecture domains.
• Flow security requirements into systems, subsystems, suppliers, and operations, and verify their implementation with objective evidence.
• Work hands-on with engineers and the security team to implement secure configurations, access controls, segmentation, monitoring, vulnerability remediation, encryption, and other cybersecurity controls.
• Support threat modelling, risk assessments, security-by-design, system reviews, supplier assessments, security readiness, and assurance activities throughout the project lifecycle.

Required skills

• Cybersecurity engineering
• Systems security
• Infrastructure security
• Operational technology
• Embedded security
• Security risk management
• Vulnerability prioritization
• Threat analysis
• Security testing
• Incident response
• Supply-chain security
• Secure system integration

Nice to have

• NIST CSF
• ISO 27001
• IEC 62443
• ECSS
• Security tooling
• Automation
• Vulnerability assessment
• Monitoring
• Detection

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in cybersecurity, computer science, engineering, or a related technical field
• Equivalent practical experience

Benefits

• Relocation assistance
• Visa sponsorship

About the Company

The Exploration Company is building spacecrafts for humanity. They operate with an agile, open, and collaborative culture focused on democratising space.