Security Engineer, Security Operations and Governance

Meitner Energy; Buenos Aires; On-site; ARS 181,747,000 - 287,765,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Employee stock option program

On-site fitness facility

Job summary

Meitner Energy is seeking a security engineer to own the security posture of a regulated AI platform supporting export-controlled nuclear technology. You will implement access controls, DLP, audit logging, and vulnerability management, while coordinating with external monitors and legal/compliance teams.

The role emphasizes governance, evidence-building, and working closely with the Director of Global IT to align platform security with company policies. Dallas on-site required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information security, engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years in security engineering, security operations, or governance.
• Hands-on experience with SSO, MFA, RBAC/ABAC, privileged access management, and secrets management in production.
• Knowledge of federal information-protection control frameworks and producing audit-ready evidence.
• Experience with SIEM or managed detection tooling and external monitoring relationships.
• Understanding export-control frameworks and handling regulated information.
• Ability to write security documentation and work on-site in Dallas.

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain SSO, MFA, RBAC/ABAC, and document-level access controls across the platform.
• Operate data-loss prevention, immutable audit logging, and secrets management; manage vulnerability triage and remediation.
• Run prompt-injection testing and develop incident response playbooks for AI systems.

Skills

Security engineering

Access control RBAC/ABAC

Audit & compliance

Incident response

Regulatory frameworks

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/InfoSec/Engineering

Tools

Single Sign-On

MFA

Secrets management

External security monitoring

Job description

Meitner Energy is developing advanced nuclear energy solutions intended to deliver reliable, scalable, and carbon-free electricity for industrial and grid applications.

Our international team brings together nuclear, engineering, commercial, regulatory, and project-development experience. We are building an organization focused on disciplined engineering, responsible execution, and the deployment of nuclear energy at meaningful scale.

The Opportunity

Meitner operates a private AI platform that handles export-controlled nuclear technology, sensitive engineering material, and regulatory data spanning multiple jurisdictions. This role owns the security and compliance posture of that platform: the access controls, audit trails, data-loss prevention, and control mappings that allow engineers and operators to use AI safely on controlled material. It is a security engineering position with genuine governance responsibility, where the controls you implement are the same controls you will be asked to evidence.

You will also provide security engineering depth to the corporate IT security program, coordinating with the Director of Global IT and external security monitoring partners on shared standards. The primary focus is the regulated platform, and the corporate dimension is real but bounded.

This role is ideal for someone who:

• Understands that security controls matter only if they hold up to assessment, and builds evidence along the way rather than reconstructing it afterward.
• Can translate regulatory requirements into concrete engineering tasks without losing either the technical or the compliance thread.
• Is interested in security challenges specific to AI systems, including prompt injection, model access control, and inference audit, alongside traditional infrastructure security.
• Wants to hold the security authority for a platform and shape its posture from the beginning.

What You'll Do

Platform Security Engineering

Implement and maintain single sign-on and multi-factor authentication, role-based and attribute-based access control, and document-level access controls across the platform, ensuring that access aligns with data-sensitivity tiers and export-control requirements. You will deploy and operate data-loss prevention controls, immutable audit logging, and secrets management for the platform environment, and own vulnerability management for platform components including scanning cadence, triage, remediation tracking, and reporting.

You will also run prompt-injection testing against the platform and own incident response procedures specific to AI systems, including playbooks for model misuse and data-exfiltration scenarios.

Export Control and Compliance

Own access enforcement for export-controlled material on the platform, ensuring controls are implemented, documented, and demonstrably effective rather than merely specified. You will build and maintain the control mapping and evidence library for the platform against the applicable federal information-protection standards, producing audit-ready artifacts suitable for presentation to regulators and external assessors, and coordinate with the AI Platform Lead and legal and compliance stakeholders on authorization design and ongoing compliance posture.

Corporate Security Coordination

Define and maintain corporate security standards in coordination with the Director of Global IT, ensuring the platform security posture is consistent with company-wide policy. You will manage the day-to-day working relationship with external security monitoring partners, covering alert triage, escalation, tuning, and regular reporting, and support security awareness and policy communication across the company’s sites.

What We're Looking For

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information security, engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• 4+ years of professional experience in security engineering, security operations, or a combined security and governance role.
• Hands-on experience implementing single sign-on and multi-factor authentication, role-based and attribute-based access control, privileged access management, and secrets management in production environments, with the ability to configure these controls personally.
• Working knowledge of federal information-protection control frameworks and their evidence requirements, including experience producing control mappings that survived an audit or assessment.
• Experience with security information and event management or managed detection tooling, including alert triage and management of an external monitoring relationship.
• Understanding of export-control frameworks and controlled unclassified information handling requirements, gained in an environment where the regulatory stakes were real.
• Ability to write clear security documentation, control narratives, and audit evidence artifacts, and to work on-site in Dallas.

Preferred Qualifications

• Working proficiency in Spanish. Spanish is preferred because the position involves security coordination with colleagues in Argentina.
• Relevant security certification such as CISSP, CISM, or an equivalent credential.
• Experience with security challenges specific to AI systems, including prompt injection, model access control, inference audit, or adversarial testing of language models.
• Familiarity with data-loss prevention tooling and document-level access control in a regulated environment.
• Background in nuclear energy, defense, aerospace, or another export-controlled industrial sector.

The Candidate We Are Seeking

The strongest candidate will be a security engineer who has implemented controls with their own hands and then had to prove those controls worked. This may be an excellent next step for a security engineer, security operations engineer, or technically strong compliance engineer who wants to hold the security authority for a platform from its beginning. Candidates should be prepared to discuss controls they personally configured, an assessment they prepared for, and the difference between a control that exists and one that functions.

Why Join Meitner Energy?

Consequential Work. Build the security and compliance foundation that allows advanced nuclear engineering work to proceed safely on modern tooling.

Direct Ownership. Implement, document, and defend the controls yourself rather than reviewing someone else’s work. Meitner is small enough that your decisions visibly shape the company.

International Scope. Work with professionals across the United States, Argentina, and the United Kingdom.

Strong Benefits. Meitner offers comprehensive health insurance, a 401(k) retirement plan, and participation in the company's employee stock option program, subject to plan terms and eligibility. The final offer will reflect the candidate's depth and relevant skills, including security engineering depth, governance and assessment experience, Spanish proficiency, and regulated-industry background.

High-Quality Workplace. Work from a modern Dallas office designed to support collaboration, productivity, and employee well-being, including an on-site fitness facility.