Tech Lead, Detection & Response

Los Angeles, CA. Posted 3 months ago

The role

You will be the senior technical owner for detection, investigation, and response across corporate, cloud, and factory environments. You will set technical direction, build an AI-native detection stack, and lead a small team.

What you will do

Own detection and response strategy, architecture, and engineering across corporate, cloud, and factory environments
Design and build an AI-native D&R stack including detection-as-code, LLM-assisted triage, and agentic response automation
Lead incident response from triage through containment, remediation, and postmortem
Set technical direction for a small detection and 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 requirements

Required qualifications

8+ years of security engineering experience with deep, hands-on detection and 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

Nice to have

Red team, penetration testing, or adversary emulation experience
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 to 1 experience building a security capability at a fast-scaling startup

Benefits

Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans
401k
Relocation support may be provided for certain situations
Flexible vacation policy
Equity

Before you apply

To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, you must be a U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the

About the company

Hadrian is building autonomous factories to reindustrialize America by combining AI, advanced software, robotics, and full-stack manufacturing. They help aerospace and defense companies build mission-critical systems.