Software Security Engineering Manager, Secure Frameworks

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

About the company

the company’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About the role

We are seeking a Security Engineering Manager to lead our Secure Frameworks Research team, which builds high‑leveraged security frameworks and libraries that make model development secure and prevent entire classes of vulnerabilities through careful design. You'll collaborate closely with teams and leaders across the company to own critical security foundations, including cryptographic frameworks and secure serialization and authorization systems that empower teams to work securely without becoming security experts themselves.

Key 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

Minimum 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

Compensation

Annual Salary: $405,000 – $485,000 USD

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Location‑based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

Come work with us!

the company is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.

Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.