Security Engineer

Science is a clinical stage, vertically integrated technology company focused on solving some of neuroscience’s hardest questions and most serious unmet medical needs. We work to restore quality of life to those with debilitating conditions for which there are no treatment options, creating devices aimed at restoring vision, cognition, and mobility to patients who have lost it. To support progress across our industry, we provide state-of-the-art components and vertically integrated infrastructure for others to build on via Science Foundry.

This is a high-autonomy role at an early-stage company. We are looking for a Security Engineer who will design and implement the company’s technical security controls across the corporate network and production & development environments. You’ll own security across the company: product, infrastructure, and corporate IT. That means writing code, hardening systems, threat modeling with engineers, and responding to incidents. We want someone with strong opinions about how security should work and the skills to actually implement those opinions.

This role might be a great fit if you’ve built or significantly expanded security programs at growing companies.

Role responsibilities:

• Security Leadership
  • Partner with our fractional CISO to design and implement a holistic security program with controls across the entire hybrid infrastructure: on-prem servers and services, IoT/lab systems, cloud workloads, local workstations, and SaaS.
  • Serve as primary point of contact within the business for all technical inquiries work related to cybersecurity and technology risk management.
  • Be the primary change agent to drive adoption of enhanced security controls and processes across the company.
  • Broadly educate colleagues to the requirements of regulations the company may be subject to, including GDPR & CCPA.
  • Regularly report to executive leadership and principal stakeholders about ongoing changes.
  • Collaborate with key principals to account for unusual requirements of scientific equipment.
  • Establish security metrics and KPIs to track posture improvements and communicate risk trends to leadership.
  • Participate in on-call rotation and respond to critical security incidents outside business hours.
• Secure Product Development
  • Collaborate with the software team to integrate application security (threat modeling, SAST, dependency management, and secure CI/CD) into the overall software development life cycle.
  • Guide developers on secure coding practices and assist in reviewing designs for data protection and compliance.
  • Deploy and maintain tools which reduce risks related to software development.
  • Support product teams in implementing privacy-by-design principles.
• Infrastructure & Operations
  • Partner with IT to harden servers, networks, and endpoints; define baseline configurations and asset inventory processes.
  • Own technical incident response: detections, containment, remediation, and post-hoc forensics.
  • Manage access via identity plane and network segmentation.
  • Harden Google Workspace configurations.
  • Enhance forensics and detections through centralized logging within the corporate infrastructure, cloud presence, and custom applications.
  • Automate vulnerability management and patch processes for both on-prem and cloud systems.
  • Improve corporate resiliency with a robust disaster recovery program which covers both traditional disaster scenarios and attacks by malicious parties, both internal and external.
  • Leverage integrations and automation to move the company closer to adherence with zero-trust principles.
  • Evaluate and deploy new security tools and technologies as appropriate for scale and risk.
• Team & Cross-Functional Work
  • Serve as the technical counterpart to our fractional CISO, translating strategy into engineering implementation.
  • Mentor IT and software engineers on security practices.
  • Manage relationships with external vendors and consultants supporting security operations.

Key qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience in security engineering, infrastructure security, or Dev Sec Ops .
• Ability to work autonomously and context-switch across product security, infrastructure, and corporate IT, without dedicated teams for…