Tech Lead, AI‑Native Detection & Response

Hadrian Automation; Santa Monica (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision, and life

401k

Relocation support

Flexible vacation

Equity

Job summary

Hadrian is hiring a Tech Lead for Detection & Response to own the end-to-end security posture across our corporate, cloud, and factory environments. You will design and implement an AI-native D&R stack, drive detections through automation, and lead incident response end to end in production.

You will guide a small team, set technical direction, and collaborate with IT, security, and compliance to meet ITAR/CMMC requirements.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of security engineering experience with hands-on detection & response expertise (SIEM, EDR, cloud and identity telemetry, SOAR)
• Strong software engineering skills with detection-as-code and infrastructure-as-code fluency
• A track record of setting technical direction as a tech lead, team lead, or anchor senior IC
• Demonstrated application of AI/LLM tooling to security workflows — and sound judgment about its limits
• Experience leading incident response end to end in production environments

Responsibilities

• Own detection & response end to end — strategy, architecture, and hands-on engineering across corporate, cloud, and factory environments
• Design and build an AI-native D&R stack: detection-as-code, LLM-assisted triage and enrichment, and agentic response automation
• Lead incident response from triage through containment, remediation, and postmortem, including high-severity scenarios
• Set technical direction for a small detection & response team; mentor engineers and raise the bar on detections, playbooks, and tooling
• Partner with IT, infrastructure, and compliance teams to meet ITAR and CMMC detection, monitoring, and response requirements

Skills

Security engineering

D&R leadership

IaC fluency

AI/LLM in security

Incident response

Tools

SIEM

EDR

SOAR

LLM tooling

Job description

Hadrian is hiring a Tech Lead for Detection & Response to own the end-to-end security posture across our corporate, cloud, and factory environments. You will design and implement an AI-native D&R stack, drive detections through automation, and lead incident response end to end in production.

You will guide a small team, set technical direction, and collaborate with IT, security, and compliance to meet ITAR/CMMC requirements.