Horizon3AI
Senior Director, Engineering, Precision Defense
$270K–$365K
US, Remote · Remote · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 22, 2026
- Experience
- No specific number of years stated.
- Education
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads the Precision Defense engineering organization and strategy, delivering NodeZero defensive capabilities across deception, security-control validation, and blue-team agents.
What you'll do
- Scale the engineering organization, develop its leadership structure, and establish goals and operating mechanisms.
- Set technical strategy and roadmap, guiding architecture and balancing customer outcomes with durable platform foundations.
- Coordinate product and engineering execution across teams, managing priorities, scope, dependencies, risks, and tradeoffs.
What they ask for
- Significant experience leading SaaS or cloud-service engineering organizations and scaling teams through managers and technical leaders.
- Track record setting engineering strategy and delivering across multiple teams or product areas.
- Strong technical judgment in cloud software, distributed systems, platform engineering, or similarly complex production environments.
- Experience turning ambiguous objectives into sequenced execution and partnering with Product and cross-functional stakeholders.
Nice to have
- Production experience with AI- or agent-enabled products; familiarity with security engineering, offensive security, vulnerability response, detection, or security-control validation.
- Experience leading cybersecurity or security-product engineering, building agent platforms, or scaling product organizations.
Pay
USD $270,000 - $365,000 annually (base salary)
Tools
NodeZero
AI focus
Lead delivery of AI-enabled workflows and blue-team agents; production experience with AI- or agent-enabled products is valuable, with sound judgment about limitations, verification, and safe operation.
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