What are the responsibilities and job description for the Security Engineer position at Air Space Intelligence?
About Air Space Intelligence
ASI enables success for the world's most complex operations. From critical infrastructure to defense, we serve major airlines and U.S. and allied government organizations, providing our partners with a decision advantage from planning to operations. Backed by top-tier investors—including Andreessen Horowitz, Spark Capital, and Renegade Partners—we are boldly investing in R&D and growth to push the boundaries of what’s possible.
What you will do:
Air Space Intelligence is building mission-critical, secure infrastructure for defense. We are seeking a Security Engineer to harden cloud and software environments to ensure compliance with U.S. government security standards. This role is critical in securing mission-critical cloud applications and ensuring compliance with federal and defense security requirements. You will have ownership of key security hardening initiatives, working closely with internal teams to implement robust security architectures, automation, and compliance measures. Your contributions will directly impact national security, strengthening ASI’s ability to protect sensitive data and operations in defense environments.
What we value:
We look at the interview process not as a screening or test, but rather as an opportunity to simulate what it would look like working together. We build the interview process around you.
ASI enables success for the world's most complex operations. From critical infrastructure to defense, we serve major airlines and U.S. and allied government organizations, providing our partners with a decision advantage from planning to operations. Backed by top-tier investors—including Andreessen Horowitz, Spark Capital, and Renegade Partners—we are boldly investing in R&D and growth to push the boundaries of what’s possible.
What you will do:
Air Space Intelligence is building mission-critical, secure infrastructure for defense. We are seeking a Security Engineer to harden cloud and software environments to ensure compliance with U.S. government security standards. This role is critical in securing mission-critical cloud applications and ensuring compliance with federal and defense security requirements. You will have ownership of key security hardening initiatives, working closely with internal teams to implement robust security architectures, automation, and compliance measures. Your contributions will directly impact national security, strengthening ASI’s ability to protect sensitive data and operations in defense environments.
What we value:
- Proven experience implementing federal and defense security controls, including FedRAMP, DoD SRG, NIST 800-171 (CMMC), and NIST 800-53.
- Experience securing government cloud environments, ensuring compliance with federal security requirements.
- Experience with security automation tools, vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, and continuous monitoring (ConMon).
- Demonstrated coding skills in Python/Rust
- Ability to conduct system security assessments, threat modeling, risk assessments, and incident response planning.
- Familiarity with security compliance documentation, including System Security Plans (SSPs), Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&Ms), and Configuration Management & Incident Response Plans.
- Experience working with DoD, FedRAMP PMO, or 3PAO assessors to achieve security authorization.
- Recent or current U.S. Security Clearance or eligibility to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance.
We look at the interview process not as a screening or test, but rather as an opportunity to simulate what it would look like working together. We build the interview process around you.
