Tech Lead, Detection & Response

About the Role

As Tech Lead for Detection & Response, you will be the senior technical owner of how Hadrian detects, investigates, and responds to threats across our corporate, cloud, and factory environments. This is a hands-on senior IC role leading a small team: you will set the technical direction, build the next-generation AI-native detection stack, and lead from the keyboard.

Responsibilities

• Own detection & response end to end — strategy, architecture, and hands-on engineering — across corporate, cloud, and factory environments
• Design and build an AI-native D&R stack: detection-as-code, LLM-assisted triage and enrichment, and agentic response automation
• Lead incident response from triage through containment, remediation, and postmortem, including high-severity scenarios
• Set technical direction for a small detection & response team; mentor engineers and raise the bar on detections, playbooks, and tooling
• Partner with IT, infrastructure, and compliance teams to meet ITAR and CMMC detection, monitoring, and response requirements

Requirements

• 8+ years of security engineering experience with deep, hands-on detection & response expertise (SIEM, EDR, cloud and identity telemetry, SOAR)
• Strong software engineering skills with detection-as-code and infrastructure-as-code fluency
• A track record of setting technical direction as a tech lead, team lead, or anchor senior IC
• Demonstrated application of AI/LLM tooling to security workflows — and sound judgment about its limits
• Experience leading incident response end to end in production environments

Qualifications

• Red team, penetration testing, or adversary emulation experience at any point in your career
• Experience in ITAR, CMMC, or other regulated defense or government environments
• Exposure to OT/ICS or manufacturing environment security
• Production experience building agentic or LLM-based security automation
• 0→1 experience building a security capability at a fast-scaling startup

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans for employees
• 401k
• Relocation support may be provided for certain situations, based on business need
• Flexible vacation policy
• Equity

ITAR Requirements

To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.