Head of Security

About Code Metal Code Metal is the leader in automated software engineering you can trust. As AI writes more of the world's code, the bottleneck in software has shifted from writing code to verifying it works, and AI cannot verify its own work with certainty. Code Metal takes a fundamentally different approach: constrain AI to what it does reliably, verify every step independently of the model using formal methods, and keep engineers in the loop on the decisions that matter.

The result isn't code that probably works — it's code that is provably correct, with auditable proof. Customers including the U.S. Air Force, L3

Harris, RTX, and Toshiba use Code Metal to modernize legacy code, optimize performance on real hardware, and move prototypes to production, fast. Founded in 2023 with offices in Boston and San Francisco, Code Metal is funded by Accel, Salesforce Ventures, B Capital, Smith Point Capital, J2 Ventures, Shield Capital, Overmatch, RTX, and others.

About Code Metal Code Metal is the leader in automated software engineering you can trust. As AI writes more of the world's code, the bottleneck in software has shifted from writing code to verifying it works, and AI cannot verify its own work with certainty. Code Metal takes a fundamentally different approach: constrain AI to what it does reliably, verify every step independently of the model using formal methods, and keep engineers in the loop on the decisions that matter.

The result isn't code that probably works — it's code that is provably correct, with auditable proof. Customers including the U.S. Air Force, L3

Harris, RTX, and Toshiba use Code Metal to modernize legacy code, optimize performance on real hardware, and move prototypes to production, fast. Founded in 2023 with offices in Boston and San Francisco, Code Metal is funded by Accel, Salesforce Ventures, B Capital, Smith Point Capital, J2 Ventures, Shield Capital, Overmatch, RTX, and others. Learn more .About

The Role Code Metal is looking for a Head of Security to lead, mature, and scale our existing security program as the company grows. This person will own security strategy and technical direction across our products, offerings, infrastructure, corporate systems, and development environments. You will work closely with engineering, IT, legal, compliance, our FSO, and company leadership to ensure our security posture meets the needs of defense, government, and enterprise customers.

This is a senior leadership role for someone who is technically strong, comfortable making risk-based decisions, and able to operate effectively with engineers, executives, customers, and government partners.

Requirements

• 10+ years of cybersecurity and compliance experience with meaningful security leadership responsibility.
• Broad technical depth across product, cloud, infrastructure, and enterprise security.
• Experience owning or significantly maturing security programs within highly technical organizations.
• Strong understanding of security architecture, risk management, security operations, privacy and compliance requirement and incident response.
• Experience working closely with engineering organizations and influencing technical decisions.
• Strong judgment and the ability to communicate security risks and priorities to technical and non-technical audiences.
• U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance.

• Experience supporting defense, government, or other highly regulated customers.
• Experience with CUI, classified systems, SCIFs, or other high-assurance environments.
• Experience with moving into new markets and jurisdictions and understanding the compliance requirements for new regions.
• Familiarity with relevant government and industry security frameworks, such as NIST 800-171, CMMC, SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR or EU AI.
• Experience securing modern cloud-native and AI-enabled products.
• Active U.S. government security clearance.

• Own and evolve Code Metal's cybersecurity strategy, priorities, and roadmap.
• Lead security across our products, infrastructure, corporate systems, and development environments.
• Partner with engineering teams to establish practical security architecture, standards, and controls.
• Oversee core security operations, including identity and access management, vulnerability management, monitoring, and incident response.
• Lead product security and ensure security is integrated throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Own the security aspects of regulatory,…