Security Program Lead - Cloud & Infra Security

Ai2; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 176,000 - 265,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental & Vision

401k Plan

Commuting stipend

Bonuses

Job summary

Ai2 in Seattle is seeking a Security Engineer lead to own and shape our security program across cloud, ML pipelines, and applications. You will establish policies, lead audits, and drive risk-based remediation with cross-team collaboration.

Join a team of AI researchers and engineers, shaping security standards, governance, and vendor risk assessments while supporting a healthy work environment and open research culture in our Seattle office.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree and 8–10 years of software/infrastructure engineering experience.
• 5+ years focused specifically on security engineering, application security, or security architecture.
• Hands-on experience conducting security and compliance audits, and directly implementing or assessing controls. For example, experience with NIST 800‑171.
• Track record of stepping up to ambiguous, high-stakes problems and building a program largely from the ground up.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain documentation for Ai2's organizational approach to security, including policies, standards, and system security plans (SSPs).
• Maintain and prioritize a backlog of security investments.
• Conduct in-depth security assessments to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities across cloud infrastructure, ML pipelines, and application code.
• Investigate and respond to security incidents, lead root-cause analysis, and drive remediation to closure.
• Build systems and tooling that improve security compliance, observability, and governance.
• Partner across research and engineering teams to address security concerns.
• Define and evolve security standards, secure-development practices, and documentation to raise the organization's overall security maturity.
• Evaluate and secure SaaS platforms and tools that make up our environment (vendor risk assessments, access reviews, data handling review, multi-tenant data isolation).
• Serve as the organization's trusted voice on security: act as a hands-on advisor and sounding board to organizational leaders.

Skills

Security engineering

Security architecture

Vulnerability assessment

Auditing

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

NIST 800-171

Job description

Ai2 in Seattle is seeking a Security Engineer lead to own and shape our security program across cloud, ML pipelines, and applications. You will establish policies, lead audits, and drive risk-based remediation with cross-team collaboration.

Join a team of AI researchers and engineers, shaping security standards, governance, and vendor risk assessments while supporting a healthy work environment and open research culture in our Seattle office.