Engineering Manager, Access Management (AI, Security)

TL;DR

Engineering Manager, Access Management (AI, Security): Leading and growing a team of security engineers to build and operate access management systems for hirify.global's infrastructure, data, and AI systems with an accent on designing access controls that scale with rapid growth and integrate AI agents. Focus on evolving RBAC models, automated provisioning, and ensuring compliance with audit and regulatory requirements.

Location: Hybrid role, requiring staff to be in one of the offices (San Francisco, New York City, Seattle) at least 25% of the time. Visa sponsorship is available.

Salary: $405,000–$485,000 USD

Company

hirify.global is a public benefit corporation focused on creating reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

What you will do

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of security engineers building access management infrastructure.
• Own the technical roadmap for authorization engines, access-request platforms, and related access control systems.
• Drive least-privilege enforcement across various workloads, employees, and applications.
• Evolve RBAC model, automated provisioning, and the access-request platform.
• Contribute to the company's emerging agent access model for AI agents.
• Ensure access events are well-structured and queryable for audit and compliance.
• Ensure the systems satisfy audit and regulatory requirements (SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, HIPAA).
• Partner with IT, GRC, People Operations, and other engineering teams.

Requirements

• 4+ years managing security, identity, or infrastructure engineering teams.
• Experience building or operating enterprise access management systems (identity providers, access request workflows, automated provisioning, or directory services).
• Understanding of IAM concepts: RBAC, ABAC, least privilege, separation of duties, access certification, and privileged access management.
• Ability to evaluate security tradeoffs and make risk-based decisions in complex cloud environments.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and communication skills.
• Passionate about building diverse, high-performing teams.

Nice to have

• Experience delivering compliance-driven engineering projects (SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, HIPAA) at a company undergoing rapid growth or regulatory maturation.
• Familiarity with HRIS integrations for automated identity lifecycle management.
• Experience implementing two-party control (dual approval) patterns for sensitive access.
• Background in OAuth, OIDC, SAML, SCIM, or SPIFFE/SPIRE identity protocols.
• Experience designing access management strategy for a company going through hypergrowth.
• Understanding of common identity-based attack patterns.
• Experience with Google Workspace administration, GCP organization policies, or AWS IAM at scale.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching.
• Generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours.
• Collaborative team working on large-scale AI research efforts.
• Focus on steerable, trustworthy AI as an empirical science.
• Strong emphasis on communication skills.