D Matrix

Senior Manager, Information Security

Santa Clara, Remote. Posted a month ago

The role

The Senior Manager, Information Security will build a unified security function and own the security roadmap and budget. This person will protect chip design IP, software supply chains, and corporate, cloud, and lab infrastructure.

What you will do

  • Build and execute a unified security roadmap and budget across corporate IT, cloud, and product development.
  • Manage security vendors and consolidate tools.
  • Partner with IT and SRE to mature identity governance, endpoint detection and response, vendor risk management, and incident response.
  • Lead readiness for compliance programs such as SOC 2 Type II and ISO/IEC 27001.
  • Protect chip design IP, EDA workflows, and software source through access controls and encryption.
  • Partner with hardware teams to assess foundry, component-sourcing, and logistics risk.
  • Co-architect hardware roots of trust, unique chip identifiers, and secure boot.
  • Establish trusted software supply chain practices including SBOMs and signed builds.
  • Secure cloud, colocation, on-premises, API, and customer-facing inference environments.
  • Establish governance and controls for internal AI agents and track emerging AI regulations.

Required qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience in information security.
  • 3+ years of experience leading security programs or teams.
  • Technical literacy across corporate IT (RBAC, MDM, SIEM), cloud environments (Kubernetes), and CI/CD security.
  • Experience protecting IP-intensive engineering environments, such as semiconductor, hardware, defense, or other sensitive design and source data.
  • Practical understanding of how LLMs and autonomous AI agents operate, interact with APIs, and handle sensitive data.
  • A pragmatic, startup mindset.
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Nice to have

  • Direct experience managing semiconductor or hardware supply chain security, such as foundry/OSAT relationships, secure IP transfer, hardware roots of trust, or anti-counterfeiting measures.
  • Experience securing hybrid, colocation, or on-premises lab infrastructure alongside cloud environments.
  • Experience managing compliance audits from initial readiness through SOC 2 Type II or ISO 27001 certification.
  • Active industry credentials, such as CISSP, CISM, or specialized AI/cloud security certifications.

About the company

d-Matrix designs and manufactures purpose-built AI inference silicon, systems, and software. The company has pioneered a memory-centric architecture to make AI faster and more energy efficient.