NeoSigma
NeoSigma

Member of Technical Staff - Security Engineer

TLDR

Own and scale security foundations across infrastructure, APIs, and CI/CD tooling, lead threat modeling, and drive security-obsessed, ownership-driven platform resilience.

About Us

NeoSigma is a product-driven research lab building the intelligence layer that helps close the feedback loop between your customers, products, and AI systems.

We are a small, intensely technical team of researchers and engineers who have trained frontier-scale models and widely used AI products and agents at MIT, Parallel Web, Essential AI, Apple, and Amazon.

What you'll do:

  • Design and build the security foundations that power NeoSigma's platform across infrastructure, backend services, and developer tooling.
  • Develop secure systems for authentication, authorization, identity, secret management, and service-to-service communication.
  • Lead security architecture reviews and threat modeling for new platform capabilities, APIs, and AI infrastructure.
  • Partner closely with engineering teams to identify, prioritize, and remediate security risks throughout the software development lifecycle.
  • Build and scale automated security tooling across CI/CD pipelines, including static analysis, dependency scanning, infrastructure validation, and policy enforcement.
  • Build secure infrastructure for cloud, customer-managed, and enterprise deployments, ensuring strong isolation, reliability, and scalability.
  • Support security incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvements that strengthen the resilience of NeoSigma's platform.
  • Collaborate across product, infrastructure, and platform engineering teams to build secure-by-default systems that enable developers to move quickly.
  • Stay current with emerging security techniques, attack vectors, and AI infrastructure challenges, translating them into practical improvements across the platform.

What we look for:

  • Hands-on experience securing cloud-native infrastructure (VPCs, Kubernetes RBAC, IAM) across at least two major cloud providers.
  • Strong familiarity with enterprise deployment patterns: self-hosted, air-gapped, BYOC, and hybrid control plane models.
  • Proven experience owning a compliance program (SOC 2, ISO 27001, or equivalent) rather than just contributing to one.
  • Experience building or securing multi-tenant SaaS platforms with strong customer data isolation requirements.
  • Ability to engage directly with enterprise security and procurement teams: field questionnaires, run trust review calls, and turn customer feedback into roadmap items.
  • Strong ownership mentality and ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment where you are the security function, not one member of it.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).

Our Core Values

  • Customer Obsession - We start with the customer and work backwards. We aim to earn trust through consistent delivery, thoughtful listening, and by obsessing over customers.
  • Intellectual Honesty - We operate with high trust and low ego. Ideas matter more than titles, and we communicate openly and directly while assuming good intent, even in strong disagreement.
  • Bias for Action - We set high standards and move quickly to meet them. We prefer building and learning with customers over debating in the abstract, and we iterate based on real feedback.
  • Extreme Ownership - We take responsibility for outcomes, not just tasks. Ownership means seeing problems through to completion and ensuring solutions truly work in practice.

Benefits and perks

  • Competitive salary plus meaningful equity package
  • Comprehensive medical benefits and generous PTO
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Direct impact on company direction and technical decisions
  • High ownership and the opportunity to make a career-defining impact

As a founding member, you’ll help define the technical foundation of NeoSigma. Your scope will grow with the company, from owning core systems end-to-end to shaping architecture, hiring, and engineering culture. This role has a natural path toward technical leadership or engineering management as the team scales.

Benefits

Equity Compensation

Competitive salary plus meaningful equity package

Flexible Work Hours

Flexible work arrangements

Health Insurance

Comprehensive medical benefits and generous PTO

Ownership and career impact

High ownership and the opportunity to make a career-defining impact

NeoSigma is a research lab focused on creating an intelligence layer that connects the dots between customers, products, and AI systems. Our team, comprised of experts from top organizations like MIT and Apple, is dedicated to building advanced models and AI solutions that drive meaningful insights and improve product development.

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