Tech Lead, Detection & Response
Hadrian Automation2 months ago
Los Angeles, CA, USA or San Francisco, CA, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own detection and response strategy, architecture, and hands-on engineering across corporate, cloud, and factory environments.
- Design and build an AI-native detection and response stack with 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 and response team, mentor engineers, and improve detections, playbooks, and tooling.
- Partner with IT, infrastructure, and compliance teams to meet ITAR and CMMC detection, monitoring, and response requirements.
Requirements
- 8+ years of security engineering experience with deep hands-on detection and response expertise.
- Experience with SIEM, EDR, cloud and identity telemetry, and SOAR.
- Strong software engineering skills with detection-as-code and infrastructure-as-code fluency.
- Track record of setting technical direction as a tech lead, team lead, or anchor senior individual contributor.
- Experience applying AI/LLM tooling to security workflows with sound judgment about its limitations.
- Experience leading incident response end to end in production environments.
- Red team, penetration testing, or adversary emulation experience is advantageous.
- Experience with ITAR, CMMC, or other regulated defense or government environments is advantageous.
- Exposure to OT/ICS or manufacturing environment security is advantageous.
- Production experience building agentic or LLM-based security automation is advantageous.
- Experience building a security capability from zero to one at a fast-scaling startup is advantageous.
- Must meet applicable ITAR eligibility or authorization requirements.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans
- 401(k)
- Relocation support may be provided based on business need
- Flexible vacation policy
- Equity
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About Hadrian Automation
Hadrian Automation builds autonomous, software-driven factories that manufacture precision components for aerospace and defense programs, including rockets, satellites, aircraft, and ships. The company operates a Factory-as-a-Service platform, combining AI, robotics, and full-stack machining and fabrication to deliver critical parts and production capacity. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in Los Angeles, it is privately held and expanding capabilities across welding, casting, forging, electronics, and additive manufacturing.