# Lead Security Engineer

**Company:** [Ai2](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/ai2)
**Location:** Seattle, WA
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Salary:** $176k – $265k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Security Engineering, Application Security, Security Architecture, Security Audits, Compliance Audits, Security Controls, Nist 800-171, Risk Assessment, Security Programs
**Posted:** 2026-09-03

> Leads security risk identification, prioritization, and remediation across an infrastructure organization while building a security program and advising technical leaders. Requires a bachelor’s degree, 8+ years of software or infrastructure engineering experience, and substantial security experience.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Identify, prioritize, and help resolve the organization’s most significant security concerns.
- Collaborate across the organization to understand the technical landscape and organize security risks.
- Directly contribute to projects that secure systems.
- Build a security program largely from the ground up.
- Advise non-security technical leaders by translating technical risk into clear, actionable recommendations.

## Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree.
- 8–10 years of overall software or infrastructure engineering experience.
- 5+ years focused on security engineering, application security, or security architecture.
- Experience owning a security program is preferred.
- Hands-on experience conducting security and compliance audits and implementing or assessing controls.
- Experience with NIST 800-171.
- Ability to take initiative on ambiguous, high-stakes problems.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Base salary: $176,400–$264,600 annually.
- Annual bonus opportunities and participation in a long-term incentive plan.
- Medical, dental, vision, and employee assistance program coverage.
- Health savings, healthcare reimbursement, and flexible spending account plans.
- 401(k) plan.
- $125 per month for commuting or internet expenses.
- $200 per month for fitness and wellbeing expenses.
- Up to 10 sick days, 7 personal days, 20 vacation days, and 12 paid holidays per year.

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