Senior Security Engineer, Security Research

Renesas is an embedded semiconductor solution provider driven by its Purpose, "To Make Our Lives Easier." As the industry’s leading expert in embedded processing, we provide scalable and comprehensive semiconductor solutions for automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT industries.

About the role

We are seeking a motivated Cloud DevOps and AI Security Engineer to help support, secure, and scale our emerging AI infrastructure and development pipeline. This role is designed for a recent graduate, a master’s graduate, or an early-career professional with hands-on experience gained through coursework, internships, projects, or related work. You will work with developers and operations leads to implement secure cloud practices, maintain automated deployment pipelines, monitor security posture, document controls, and support the responsible use of AI-assisted engineering tools.

Responsibilities

• AI Infrastructure and Pipeline Security: Help secure emerging AI infrastructure and AI-enabled development by supporting security checks, documenting controls, validating tool configurations, and escalating potential risks under guidance from senior team members.
• Security Monitoring: Review logs, alerts, system activity, and pipeline outputs to help identify, document, and escalate potential vulnerabilities or unusual behavior.
• Cloud Infrastructure Support: Assist in provisioning, configuring, and maintaining core AWS services such as VPC, EC2, S3, IAM, Lambda, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Infrastructure as Code: Learn, update, and write basic Terraform, Serverless, or AWS CloudFormation templates under guidance from senior team members.
• Access Management: Help manage user permissions and access controls using AWS IAM and least-privilege principles.
• Team Collaboration: Work with developers, QA, and operations team members to troubleshoot issues, document findings, and support safe releases for customer-facing web platforms.
• Deployment Support: Help maintain and improve automated CI/CD pipelines to support safe, reliable, and repeatable software delivery.
• Documentation: Create and maintain clear technical documentation for architecture diagrams, deployment processes, access controls, and security protocols.

Qualifications

Required Technical Skills

• Cloud Fundamentals: Foundational understanding of AWS services, cloud computing concepts, networking basics, IAM, security groups, and common web infrastructure patterns.
• Cloud Security Fundamentals: Basic familiarity with least privilege, access controls, encryption, secrets management, logging, and secure configuration practices.
• Security Monitoring and Triage: Ability to review logs, alerts, system activity, and pipeline outputs, document findings clearly, and escalate potential risks.
• Automation Exposure: Basic experience with scripting languages such as Python or Bash to automate repetitive operational or security-related tasks.
• Version Control: Familiarity with Git workflows, Bitbucket pipelines, pull requests, branching strategies, and change tracking.
• AI-Assisted Engineering: Awareness of how AI coding assistants and automation tools can be used responsibly, including protecting sensitive information, validating tool outputs, documenting AI-assisted changes, and following approved safe-use practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience: 0–2 years of experience in IT support, systems administration, cloud operations, cybersecurity, software engineering, web operations, or a junior DevOps role.
• Certifications: Relevant entry-level certifications, such as AWS Cloud Practitioner, CompTIA Security+, or equivalent, are helpful but not required.
• Education: Degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Coursework, internships, graduate research, capstone projects, or hands-on work involving cloud security, DevSecOps, secure software development, application security, AI infrastructure, or responsible use of AI coding assistants are highly desirable.

Pay

The expected annual base salary range for this position is $65,000 to $85,000. This range does not include potential short-term or long-term incentive compensation. Actual compensation may vary based on relevant experience, skills, qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors.

Benefits

We believe in rewarding our employees with a competitive benefits package alongside their salary. More information will be provided during the hiring process.