Lead Security Engineer

We are seeking a Lead Security Engineer to join our team at Ai2, a Seattle-based non-profit AI research institute. As a Lead Security Engineer, you will lead our company's security program, establishing how we conduct security evaluations of programs, auditing systems for security concerns, prioritizing security investments, and working across the company to reduce our security risks.

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.
• Serve as the organization's trusted voice on security.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree and 8–10 years of overall 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.
• A track record of stepping up to ambiguous, high-stakes problems.
• Strong ability to advise non-security technical leaders.

Benefits:

• Medical, dental, vision, and employee assistance program coverage for team members and their families.
• Health savings account plan, healthcare reimbursement arrangement plan, and health care and dependent care flexible spending account plans.
• 401k plan.
• $125 per month for commuting or internet expenses.
• $200 per month for fitness and wellbeing expenses.
• Up to ten sick days per year, up to seven personal days per year, up to 20 vacation days per year, and twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
• Annual bonuses and long-term incentive plan participation.