Working Student CarIT Security – Cyber Security Pentesting

As a working student you support vehicle-related penetration tests and the development of AI-based penetration testing tools in automotive cyber security. Complete application documents (CV, proof of enrollment, etc.) are required.

• You support the preparation, execution and evaluation of vehicle-related penetration tests at ECU and vehicle level.
• You carry out security tests on automotive ECUs and vehicle networks such as CAN, LIN and Automotive Ethernet.
• You help develop and further develop AI-based penetration testing tools and automated security tests.
• You support automated vulnerability analysis and AI-assisted penetration testing.
• You build security test environments and continuously improve existing setups.

• You study computer science, cyber security, electrical engineering or a comparable technical degree program.
• You bring basic knowledge of IT and cyber security or embedded systems.
• You have programming skills, ideally in Python, and first experience with Linux and Git.
• You are interested in automotive security and embedded systems, especially ECUs as well as communication protocols and networks such as CAN, LIN and Automotive Ethernet.
• Ideally you want to dive deeper into penetration testing, security automation and AI-based security approaches.
• Very good German and English skills round off your profile.