Security Frameworks Engineering Manager for AI Safety

United States Digital Space LLC; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 405,000 - 485,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Security Engineering Manager to lead the Secure Frameworks Research team. You will design high-leverage security frameworks and cryptographic tools, collaborating with product, research, and infrastructure to balance security rigor with development velocity.

You will own security solutions from design through adoption, mentor engineers, and drive metrics for framework usage.

Qualifications

• 3+ years managing security engineering teams with proven track record of team productivity.
• 5+ years hands-on security and software engineering experience
• Deep expertise in securing complex architectures, threat modeling, and risk assessment with ability to evaluate security tradeoffs and make risk-based decisions
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, balancing security requirements with developer experience and velocity
• Clear and persuasive communicator in both writing and verbal settings
• Passionate about building diverse, high-performing teams and growing engineers in a fast-paced environment
• Low ego, high empathy, and have a track record as a talent magnet
• Experience working with technical internal customers
• Familiarity with AI safety concepts and frameworks

Responsibilities

• Design frameworks and libraries that enable secure handling of sensitive data including model weights, customer data, and training datasets
• Own what you build completely; ensuring outstanding user experience, proactive monitoring, and responsive support
• Enable other teams to build their own security solutions by providing design pattern guidance and expanding security ownership beyond your team
• Partner with product, research, and infrastructure teams, as well as other Security teams to ensure frameworks integrate smoothly with lower-layer security controls
• Make strategic decisions about which frameworks to build based on security risk and translate into prioritized roadmaps
• Define success metrics around framework adoption and impact - the team succeeds when engineers naturally reach for Secure Frameworks' tools rather than building security solutions from scratch
• Manage and grow a team of engineers to deliver high-impact projects that balance security rigor with development velocity

Skills

Security leadership

Security engineering

Threat modeling

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

People management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Security Engineering Manager to lead the Secure Frameworks Research team. You will design high-leverage security frameworks and cryptographic tools, collaborating with product, research, and infrastructure to balance security rigor with development velocity.

You will own security solutions from design through adoption, mentor engineers, and drive metrics for framework usage.