Senior Security Risk Architect (Remote/Hybrid)

Telemetry Today LLC; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 154,000 - 207,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401k retirement plan

Three weeks paid vacation

12 paid holidays

Unlimited sick time

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Muon Space seeks a Senior Security Risk Engineer to join the Security Engineering & IT team. The role focuses on identifying, assessing, and addressing risks across engineering, IT, operations, finance, and supply chain to protect infrastructure and data.

Responsibilities include leading risk assessments, maintaining a risk register, driving remediation with ownership teams, and mapping risks to compliance frameworks such as NIST 800-171 and CMMC.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in information security, security engineering, or security risk/GRC roles.
• Hands-on experience running security risk assessments and managing a risk register.
• Strong understanding of security risk frameworks and methodologies (e.g., NIST RMF / 800-30, FAIR, or similar).
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks such as NIST 800-171, CMMC, SOC 2, or ISO 27001.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills — able to convey risk and priorities to both engineers and leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead security risk assessments across the company — identify, analyze, and prioritize risks across engineering, IT, operations, and business functions
• Maintain a risk register and a clear, current view of Muon's risk posture for leadership
• Partner with teams across the company to drive remediation of identified risks and track them to closure
• Assess the security risk of new tools, vendors, third parties, and architectural or process changes before adoption
• Define and apply a consistent risk framework and methodology — likelihood and impact scoring, risk acceptance, and exceptions
• Map risks and controls to compliance requirements such as NIST 800-171 and CMMC, and support audits and assessments
• Report risk trends and metrics to leadership and recommend where to invest to reduce the most risk
• Help teams build risk-aware processes and take ownership of the risks they hold

Skills

Security risk assessment

Risk management

NIST RMF / 800-30

CMMC / SOC 2 / ISO 27001

Communication skills

Education

CISSP

CRISC

CISA

Job description

Muon Space seeks a Senior Security Risk Engineer to join the Security Engineering & IT team. The role focuses on identifying, assessing, and addressing risks across engineering, IT, operations, finance, and supply chain to protect infrastructure and data.

Responsibilities include leading risk assessments, maintaining a risk register, driving remediation with ownership teams, and mapping risks to compliance frameworks such as NIST 800-171 and CMMC.