Detection & Response Security Engineer (Robotics)

Location: San Carlos, California, United States; onsite

Salary: $180,000–$235,000 per year plus equity

Company

hirify.global builds humanoid robots designed to perform household tasks safely in real-world environments.

What you will do

• Design and scale detection engineering across cloud infrastructure, endpoints, enterprise systems, and operational environments.
• Improve incident response readiness through automation, threat hunting, telemetry enrichment, and operational playbooks.
• Build monitoring pipelines and security analytics to improve visibility into adversarial behavior and operational risk.
• Partner with Infrastructure, IT, Robotics, and Product Security teams to strengthen detection coverage and response coordination.
• Improve alert quality, investigation tooling, and response workflows to reduce mean time to detect and respond.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in detection engineering, incident response, threat hunting, security operations, or related security engineering roles.
• Hands-on experience with SIEM, EDR, logging pipelines, cloud monitoring, and security telemetry systems.
• Strong understanding of cloud environments such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, as well as endpoint telemetry, identity systems, and infrastructure monitoring.
• Strong scripting and automation skills using Python, Go, Bash, or similar languages.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Onsite work in San Carlos, California is required.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting robotics, manufacturing, operational technology, or hardware engineering environments.
• Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK, threat intelligence workflows, and adversary emulation.
• Experience with Kubernetes security, distributed systems, zero trust architectures, identity systems, or security orchestration tooling.
• Experience in high-growth startup environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Builder-oriented environment emphasizing ownership, speed, honesty, and respect.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Paid time off, company holidays, and parental leave.
• 401(k) plan with company match, plus FSA and HSA options.
• Commuter benefits, disability and life insurance, and an Employee Assistance Program.
• Onsite snacks and catered lunches.