cybersecurity engineer (m/w/d)
Berlin
Full-time
Permanent employee
why this role matters
A robotic agent that can be compromised is a robotic agent that cannot be trusted. Security is the shadow half of coera's safety guarantee. The EU Cyber Resilience Act is in force, reporting obligations start September 2026, and full application follows in December 2027. You will own the security architecture, the threat model, and the evidence base that lets coera pass every customer security review and every regulator briefing.
what you will own
- Design the end-to-end security architecture of coera's platform: supply chain, build pipeline, deployed runtime, update channel.
- Deliver CRA (Regulation (EU) 2024/2847) Annex I conformance and the IEC 62443-4-1 and -4-2 evidence base for the first customer deployment.
- Run threat modelling (TARA) on every integration and turn findings into shipped mitigations.
- Own incident-response readiness, penetration-testing relationships, and the security artefacts that pass customer review.
- Work closely with the safety engineer to keep safety and security as one property.
- Set the bar for secure engineering practice across the team.
what we look for
Must have
- Five to ten years product or platform security with hands-on software engineering fluency. Production code in C and C++.
- Hardening embedded Linux and firmware, including secure boot chains.
- IEC 62443-4-1 and -4-2 and ISO/IEC 27001, with working literacy in CRA Annex I and TARA methodology.
- Cloud security fluency.
- Cryptographic primitives and PKI operated in production.
Strong signals
- Prior work on a safety-certified or functionally safe product. The single most valuable signal for coera because it means you already treat security and safety as one property.
- Published vulnerability research, CVEs, or speaking record at Black Hat, DEF CON, Pwn2Own, OffensiveCon, CCC, or Troopers.
- Cyber-physical attack surfaces and hardware-level threats: anti-tamper, reverse engineering.
- CRA, NIS2, or Machinery Regulation 2023/1230 fluency demonstrated in shipped product.
- AI and ML system security literacy: model weight protection, model supply chain, adversarial inputs.
Bonus
- Supply-chain and code-signing frameworks.
- German or Farsi in addition to English.
what we offer
A core-team role with real ownership over what we build and how. Direct line to deployments with leading robotics partners from day one. Post-thesis, pre-scale: the window where the work you do actually compounds.
All coera employees participate in the company's long-term success through our employee participation program (ESOP). The specific terms of your participation are agreed individually as part of your compensation package.
All coera employees participate in the company's long-term success through our employee participation program (ESOP). The specific terms of your participation are agreed individually as part of your compensation package.
how we work
Small, senior, deliberate. We write more than we meet. We ship the core of the product before we ship the edges. We care about craft in code, policy design, and how we engage with customers. The bar is high, and the stakes are high: the safety layer of the robotics revolution is being built now, and we intend to be the one that defines it.
process and small print
Hiring process. A short intro call, a technical conversation tailored to the role, a deeper-dive session (onsite or remote), and an offer. Typical time from application to offer is two to three weeks. We move fast when we meet the right person.
Visa and relocation. We support visa sponsorship and relocation within Europe where it makes the difference between hiring the right person and not.
Equal opportunity. We hire on the strength of the work. We do not discriminate on the basis of gender, age, origin, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or anything else unrelated to the job. Applications from people with disabilities are explicitly welcomed and will be given equal consideration on the strength of qualifications.
Your data. We process your application under GDPR. We keep it for the duration of the hiring process, or up to six months if you tell us you would like to stay on file for future roles. You can request deletion at any time.
Visa and relocation. We support visa sponsorship and relocation within Europe where it makes the difference between hiring the right person and not.
Equal opportunity. We hire on the strength of the work. We do not discriminate on the basis of gender, age, origin, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or anything else unrelated to the job. Applications from people with disabilities are explicitly welcomed and will be given equal consideration on the strength of qualifications.
Your data. We process your application under GDPR. We keep it for the duration of the hiring process, or up to six months if you tell us you would like to stay on file for future roles. You can request deletion at any time.
About us
coera is the universal safety intelligence layer for human-robot coexistence, built to redefine what safety means in the age of physical AI. Robotics is advancing faster than the safety systems meant to support it. coera closes that gap with multimodal sensing and deterministic guardrails: retrofittable, embeddable, controller-agnostic. Safety is not a checkpoint or a constraint. It is the capability that lets intelligent machines operate freely wherever people do.