AI-Driven Security Tech Lead — D&R & Incident Response

Hadrian Automation; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401k

Relocation support

Flexible vacation

Equity

Job summary

Hadrian is building autonomous factories to reindustrialize America. As Tech Lead for Detection & Response, you will own how Hadrian detects, investigates, and responds to threats across corporate, cloud, and factory environments.

This is a hands-on senior IC role leading a small team and setting the technical direction. You will design an AI-native detection and response stack, lead from the keyboard, and mentor engineers while collaborating with IT, infra, and compliance to meet ITAR and CMMC

Qualifications

• 8+ years of security engineering with hands-on D&R across SIEM, EDR, cloud and identity telemetry, SOAR.
• Strong software engineering with detection-as-code and infrastructure-as-code fluency.
• Track record of setting technical direction as a tech lead, team lead, or anchor senior IC.
• Demonstrated application of AI/LLM tooling to security workflows and sound judgment about its limits.
• Experience leading incident response end to end in production environments.
• Red team, penetration testing, or adversary emulation experience.
• Experience in ITAR, CMMC, or other regulated defense or government environments.
• Exposure to OT/ICS or manufacturing environment security.
• Production experience building agentic or LLM-based security automation.
• 0→1 experience building a security capability at a fast-scaling startup.

Responsibilities

• Own detection & response end to end — strategy, architecture, and hands-on engineering — across corporate, cloud, and factory environments.
• Design and build an AI-native D&R stack: detection-as-code, LLM-assisted triage and enrichment, and agentic response automation.
• Lead incident response from triage through containment, remediation, and postmortem, including high-severity scenarios.
• Set technical direction for a small detection & response team; mentor engineers and raise the bar on detections, playbooks, and tooling.
• Partner with IT, infrastructure, and compliance teams to meet ITAR and CMMC detection, monitoring, and response requirements.

Skills

Security engineering

IaC / detection-as-code

Tech lead / senior IC

AI/LLM in security

Incident response

Tools

SIEM

EDR

SOAR

Cloud telemetry

Job description

Hadrian is building autonomous factories to reindustrialize America. As Tech Lead for Detection & Response, you will own how Hadrian detects, investigates, and responds to threats across corporate, cloud, and factory environments.

This is a hands-on senior IC role leading a small team and setting the technical direction. You will design an AI-native detection and response stack, lead from the keyboard, and mentor engineers while collaborating with IT, infra, and compliance to meet ITAR and CMMC