Security Engineer (Cybersecurity)

Location: Los Angeles, CA, United States

Salary: $100,000–$180,000 annually, plus potential stock options and benefits for full-time hires.

Company

hirify.global designs, builds, and operates low-cost uranium enrichment services in the United States to support nuclear energy, AI, advanced manufacturing, and other critical industries.

What you will do

• Design, implement, and maintain security controls across product, infrastructure, corporate, and regulated environments.
• Secure cloud, on-premises, air-gapped, classified, and highly restricted systems against federal, NRC, and internal requirements.
• Support security operations, including monitoring, detection engineering, incident response, vulnerability management, and remediation tracking.
• Implement identity and access management controls for workforce systems, production environments, and privileged access workflows.
• Partner with software, hardware, firmware, IT, infrastructure, manufacturing, nuclear, and operations teams on application security and secure SDLC practices.
• Contribute to governance, risk, and compliance activities, audits, NRC licensing support, and classified facility accreditation preparation.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on cybersecurity experience across infrastructure, product, cloud, or security operations.
• Practical experience implementing security controls in production or other high-stakes environments.
• Experience in regulated environments such as federal, defense, nuclear, classified, ITAR, or similarly controlled settings.
• Strong technical knowledge of cloud security, network security, endpoint security, IAM, and security monitoring.
• Experience supporting incident response, vulnerability management, or security event investigations.
• Ability to work extended hours and weekends as necessary and collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Experience with NRC licensing, classified facility buildouts, NIST 800-53, NIST 800-171, RMF, or STIGs.
• Familiarity with hardware security, embedded systems, industrial control systems, or operational technology.
• Experience securing hybrid-cloud, air-gapped, or highly restricted architectures.
• Fluency with DevSecOps tooling, detection engineering, infrastructure-as-code security, and automation.
• Experience with security policies, control documentation, audits, or compliance evidence collection.

Culture & Benefits

• Mission-driven, first-principles engineering environment with a Skunkworks-style approach.
• Culture focused on urgency, accountability, and transparency.
• Medical, vision, and dental coverage for eligible full-time hires.
• Access to a 401(k) retirement plan.
• Potential long-term incentives in the form of stock options for eligible full-time hires.