Cybersecurity Engineer (m/w/d)

why this role matters

A robotic agent that can be compromised cannot be trusted. At coera, cybersecurity is fundamental to our safety promise. This is your opportunity to shape security from the ground up, working closely with the CTO and core engineering team. You'll take ownership of security architecture, threat modelling, and compliance, establishing secure engineering practices that make our platform trustworthy and ready for real-world deployment. 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

• At least five years in 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

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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.

what we offer

Join coera at a defining stage, where your technical decisions will directly shape the product, its architecture, and the engineering team that grows around it. You'll work closely with the founders, have genuine ownership of critical technology, a​​​​nd see your work progress from development through certification to real-world deployment with robotics partners. how we work

Small, senior, deliberate. We write more than we meet, challenge ideas openly, and focus on building what matters. We value engineers who take ownership, make sound technical decisions, and are comfortable navigating ambiguity. We care about engineering quality, but we're equally committed to pragmatic solutions and getting things done. process and small print

Berlin · On-site l Full-time l €74,000–€80,000 gross annually + equity participation

Location

This is a full-time, on-site role based in Berlin. We're a small team building complex, safety-critical technology, and we believe working closely together makes a real difference at this stage. Being in the same room helps us solve problems faster, exchange ideas, and make important technical decisions together.

Our hiring process

We aim to keep our process thoughtful, transparent, and focused on getting to know each other. It includes an introductory conversation, a technical interview, a take-home assignment followed by a presentation and discussion, and a final conversation with the founders.

Visa & relocation Not based in Berlin yet? We'd still love to hear from you. For the right candidate, we're open to discussing visa sponsorship and relocation support on an individual basis. About us

coera is building the universal safety intelligence layer for human-robot coexistence, redefining 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.