Goodfire
Security Operations Lead
$200K–$350K
San Francisco, CA +1 · Full-time · Posted Sep 16, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 5+ years in IT security or security engineering.
About the job
Own Goodfire’s corporate IT and physical security, protecting its people and systems while supporting fast-moving AI research and engineering teams.
What you'll do
- Manage identity and access, endpoint security, and corporate systems.
- Limit AI agents’ and untrusted code’s access to devices, accounts, and cloud resources; run compliance and customer security reviews.
- Lead incident response and oversee office physical security and networking.
What they ask for
- Hands-on ownership of identity, endpoints, and corporate systems.
- Experience running SOC 2 audits and enterprise customer security reviews.
- Strong understanding of AI security, particularly how AI agents change the threat model.
- Willingness to personally own security work of any size.
Nice to have
- Physical security experience, including access control and facility security.
- Experience at an early-stage startup, building a security program from scratch, at an AI lab, or in ML research environments; familiarity with cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.
Pay
$200,000 to $350,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
MFA, SSO, EDR, SOC 2, CI/CD
AI focus
Secure AI agents and untrusted code by limiting their access to laptops, accounts, and cloud resources; account for how agents change the security threat model.
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