Chief Security Architect for AI Infrastructure

Nous Research; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Nous Research is hiring the first security engineer to own end-to-end security across our multi-cloud infrastructure, products, and enterprise deployments. You will harden environments across AWS, GCP, Azure, and Vercel, and shape the security foundations for our open-source AI platform.

This hands-on role covers vulnerability management, incident response, SOC 2 controls, IAM modernization, and secure SDLC practices.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of security engineering experience with hands-on infra and multi-cloud security.
• Proven success securing production SaaS environments end-to-end.
• Strong Kubernetes, IAM fundamentals, including SSO, SAML, SCIM.
• Experience with SOC 2 or ISO 27001 program implementation, not checkbox exercises.
• Familiarity with threat modeling and vulnerability management.

Responsibilities

• Own production security across a multi-cloud footprint spanning AWS, GCP, Azure, and Vercel.
• Secure multi-tenant SaaS, dedicated VPC, self-hosted Kubernetes, and air-gapped deployments.
• Secure the Hermes Agent platform across sandboxing, kernel-level file system and network isolation, agent identity, credential controls, egress controls, and trace integrity.
• Own SOC 2 technical controls, evidence collection, remediation, and ongoing readiness.
• Harden identity and access management, including SSO and SAML consolidation, least-privilege access reviews, 2FA, and BYOD policies.
• Lead vulnerability management, penetration testing, incident response, and cloud-native security monitoring.
• Strengthen the secure software development lifecycle through practical controls, including peer-review requirements, while maintaining high development velocity.
• Support enterprise deals by completing security questionnaires, leading architecture reviews, and addressing penetration-testing requirements.
• Partner across engineering, infrastructure, product, FDE, and operations to identify and address security risks.

Skills

Security engineering

Infrastructure security

Multi-cloud security

Kubernetes

Identity and IAM

SOC 2 / ISO 27001

Vulnerability management

Incident response

Penetration testing

Open-source security

Job description

Nous Research is hiring the first security engineer to own end-to-end security across our multi-cloud infrastructure, products, and enterprise deployments. You will harden environments across AWS, GCP, Azure, and Vercel, and shape the security foundations for our open-source AI platform.

This hands-on role covers vulnerability management, incident response, SOC 2 controls, IAM modernization, and secure SDLC practices.