# Senior Security Engineer

About Beacon AI We’re a fast-moving team of aviators, engineers, and operators building an AI platform to make flying safer, more efficient, and more capable. Backed by top investors, we’ve secured a dozen Department of Defense contracts and partnered with major airlines to deliver mission-critical systems. We operate without silos or heavy processes. Small, focused teams own what they build, ship quickly, and learn fast, pushing the boundaries of how humans and AI work together in aviation. Role Overview We are seeking a Senior Security Engineer to ensure the security and integrity of Beacon AI’s systems and data across commercial and Department of Defense (DoD) environments. This is a hands-on security engineering role focused on designing and operating secure systems, partnering closely with software teams, and protecting mission-critical flight safety technology while meeting applicable security and compliance standards, including FedRAMP and DoD Impact Level (IL) requirements. What You’ll Do Design and implement secure architectures across applications, cloud infrastructure, backend services, and in-cockpit edge systems, including environments built to FedRAMP Moderate baselin

- **Id**: 4000073
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/beacon-ai-senior-security-engineer-3>
- **Role**: Security
- **Role family**: Security
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T23:15:55Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T03:05:43Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4912
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Avionics & Flight Control, Commercial Aviation, Defense AI

## Company

- **Id**: 3354
- **Name**: Beacon AI
- **Domain**: beaconai.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/beaconai>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Salary

- **Min**: 173000
- **Max**: 225000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 225000

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **CMMC** — Optional: no
- **FedRAMP** — Optional: no
- **ISO 27001** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **NIST 800-171** — Optional: no
- **NIST 800-53** — Optional: no
- **SIEM** — Optional: no
- **Threat Modeling** — Optional: no
- **Zero Trust** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T03:05:43Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 15
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:17:35Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 225000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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