Senior Security Lead for AI Hardware & Software

Showcify, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

d-Matrix designs and manufactures purpose-built AI inference silicon, systems, and software. As our Senior Manager, Information Security, you will build a unified security function that consolidates responsibilities across the company and grow a team over time.

You will own the security roadmap and budget and protect proprietary chip design IP, EDA workflows, and the software supply chain. You will partner with Silicon and Software Engineering, IT, SRE, and Facilities to keep development,

Qualifications

• 7+ years of information security experience.
• 3+ years leading security programs or teams.
• Technical literacy across corporate IT (RBAC, MDM, SIEM), cloud environments (Kubernetes), and CI/CD security.
• Experience protecting IP-intensive engineering environments, such as semiconductor, hardware, defense, or other sensitive design and source data.
• Practical understanding of how LLMs and autonomous AI agents operate, interact with APIs, and handle sensitive data.
• A pragmatic, startup mindset: rigorous security that does not slow hardware development, customer collaboration, or product shipping.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Build and execute a unified security roadmap and budget across corporate IT, cloud, and product development, consolidating tools and managing security vendors.
• Partner with IT and SRE to mature identity governance, endpoint detection and response, vendor risk management, and incident response, and lead readiness for compliance programs such as SOC 2 Type II and ISO/IEC 27001.
• Protect chip design IP (RTL, GDSII), EDA workflows, and software source through least-privilege access, network segmentation, exfiltration controls, and encrypted transfer to foundry and OSAT partners.
• Partner with hardware teams to assess foundry, component-sourcing, and logistics risk and co-architect hardware roots of trust, unique chip identifiers, and secure boot.
• Establish trusted software supply chain practices, including SBOMs, signed builds, and provenance tracking for compilers, runtimes, and model artifacts.
• Secure cloud, colocation, on-premises, API, and customer-facing inference environments by enforcing Zero Trust, phishing-resistant MFA, and DevSecOps practices.
• Establish governance and controls for internal AI agents, defend against external bots and agentic traffic, and track emerging AI regulations.
• Partner with Facilities on lab and physical security, and build a security-first culture that favors simple, low-friction access over workarounds.

Skills

InfoSec experience

Leadership of security programs

Cloud & CI/CD security

Semiconductor security

LLM security

Startup mindset

Bachelor's degree

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

d-Matrix designs and manufactures purpose-built AI inference silicon, systems, and software. As our Senior Manager, Information Security, you will build a unified security function that consolidates responsibilities across the company and grow a team over time.

You will own the security roadmap and budget and protect proprietary chip design IP, EDA workflows, and the software supply chain. You will partner with Silicon and Software Engineering, IT, SRE, and Facilities to keep development,