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title: 'Cybersecurity Specialist at REGENT'
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# Cybersecurity Specialist at REGENT

- **Company:** REGENT
- **Location:** North Kingstown Rhode Island, United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-08-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/regent/cfabb452-0c1f-4c48-b416-79299164debb

## Job description

At REGENT, we’re on a mission to revolutionize regional transportation between coastal cities. We're not just building vehicles, we're creating a new category of transportation: the Seaglider. These groundbreaking wing-in-ground-effect craft travel just above the water’s surface, combining the speed of an airplane with the low operating costs of a boat. Capable of 180 miles at 180 mph on today's battery tech (and up to 400 miles with next-gen batteries), Seagliders will unlock fast, affordable, and sustainable coastal transit for passengers and cargo - connecting cities, islands, and communities like never before.

Backed by leading investors and powered by a team of passionate, forward-thinking engineers, builders, and operators, we’re now scaling from a breakthrough prototype to full production - and building the team to make it happen.

## ROLE OVERVIEW

Building a new category of vehicle means building a company people can trust with sensitive technology, systems, and data. As REGENT's Cybersecurity Specialist, you'll help protect that foundation by supporting the day-to-day security operations that keep our environment secure as we scale.

This is a hands-on role in an evolving, fast-moving startup environment. You'll monitor and investigate security alerts, manage vulnerabilities through remediation, help keep systems aligned to our security standards, and support incident response, identity and access, data governance, and security compliance. You'll work closely with the Director, IT & Infrastructure, taking ownership of day-to-day security work while partnering and escalating when issues require broader context or judgment.

At REGENT, our systems and processes are evolving alongside the company. We're looking for someone who is comfortable learning as they go, adapting to changing priorities, and looking for ways to make the way we work better - whether that's improving a process, strengthening documentation, automating a repetitive task, or catching a security gap before it becomes a bigger problem.

As we scale toward CMMC Level 2 certification and manufacturing, your work will directly strengthen our security posture and compliance readiness. If you're curious, detail-oriented, and excited to grow your security expertise while helping protect the technology bringing Seagliders to market, we'd love to hear from you.

## WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Run day-to-day security monitoring. Monitor endpoint detection and response (EDR) tooling and security alerts, triaging, investigating, resolving, and escalating findings as appropriate.
- Drive vulnerability management. Support the full lifecycle from scanning and prioritization through remediation tracking, verification, and reporting, partnering with teams across REGENT to get issues resolved.
- Execute incident response. Carry out detection, containment, eradication, and recovery procedures in coordination with the Director, IT & Infrastructure, escalating higher-severity or ambiguous incidents as needed.
- Keep systems hardened. Maintain configuration baselines, hardened builds, authorized software and service tracking, and drift monitoring against approved standards — and help drive findings through remediation and verification.
- Support identity and access. Help administer our identity and access management environment, support joiner/mover/leaver workflows and automated provisioning, and assist with privileged access and routine access reviews.
- Support data governance and resilience. Help apply data classification, data loss prevention (DLP), and retention controls; coordinate with Facilities where physical security systems intersect with company systems; and support backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity testing.
- Improve security as we scale. Look for opportunities to strengthen processes, automate repetitive work, improve documentation, and make our day-to-day security operations more effective as REGENT grows.
- Keep documentation audit-ready. Maintain accurate records of security procedures, incidents, configuration baselines, and exceptions, and contribute to runbooks, SOPs, and GRC evidence.
- Help the whole company stay secure. Support our security awareness and training program, including phishing simulations, and help reinforce good security practices across REGENT.

## WHAT YOU'LL BRING

- Endpoint detection and response (EDR) experience. You can triage and investigate endpoint security alerts, take appropriate action within established procedures, and recognize when something needs to be escalated.
- Vulnerability management experience. You understand the vulnerability lifecycle, including scanning, prioritization, remediation tracking, verification, and reporting.
- Incident response fundamentals. You have working knowledge of detection, containment, eradication, and recovery and can execute established procedures while partnering with senior team members on higher-severity events.
- System hardening and configuration management experience. You understand security baselines and can support configuration management, drift detection, and remediation.
- Identity and access fundamentals. You're comfortable supporting routine access reviews, joiner/mover/leaver workflows, and day-to-day identity administration.
- Strong security documentation habits. You produce clear, accurate procedures, incident records, configuration baselines, and security evidence, with the attention to detail needed in a regulated environment.
- A proactive, ownership-oriented approach. You follow work through to completion, surface risks and blockers early, ask questions when something doesn't look right, and look for ways to improve how the work gets done.
- Bonus: regulated-environment exposure. Familiarity with CMMC, NIST SP 800-171, aerospace, defense, manufacturing, or another regulated environment is helpful, but not required.
- Bonus: broader technical exposure. Experience with identity providers (IdPs) and conditional access, data classification and DLP tooling, networking fundamentals such as VLANs, RADIUS/802.1X, and basic firewall concepts, or scripting and automation for security monitoring and reporting is a plus.

## WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR

- Collaborative Team Player: You believe the strongest security comes from working well with the people around you. You communicate clearly, ask good questions, and collaborate across IT, Engineering, Manufacturing, Workplace Ops, People, and other teams to solve problems and keep work moving. You know when to bring others in and approach security as a partner, not a blocker.
- Creative Problem Solver: You're curious about why something isn't working and willing to dig in to figure it out. You don't just close the immediate ticket - you look for practical ways to improve the process, prevent the problem from happening again, or make the solution easier to manage as we grow.
- Adaptable & Agile: You're comfortable working in a startup where priorities, systems, and processes will continue to evolve. You can shift gears when needed, learn new tools and processes quickly, and stay organized when several things are moving at once. You don't need every answer to already exist, but you know when to ask for help or escalate.
- Innovative Mindset: You're driven by curiosity and a genuine interest in technology and security. You stay interested in emerging threats, tools, automation, and new approaches, and look for thoughtful ways to apply what you're learning to make REGENT's security operations more effective.

## WHAT WE OFFER

- Competitive compensation, including a robust equity incentive plan.
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance — we cover 100% of your premiums.
- 401(k) with company matching, so you can plan for the future.
- Generous flexible time off, paid parental leave, and company-wide holiday breaks.
- Relocation packages available for those moving to join our team.
- Daily free catered lunches.
- Learning and professional development opportunities.

If you’re ready to take on an exciting challenge, grow with us, and make a lasting impact, we want to hear from you. Even if you don’t meet every requirement, but you see yourself contributing to our mission, we encourage you to apply! We value diverse skillsets and experiences and believe in the potential of passionate individuals to make a big impact.

## Equal Opportunity Employer

REGENT is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.

## About REGENT

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: REGENT develops and manufactures all-electric Seaglider™ vessels for fast, safe, and low-cost coastal transportation, combining the high speed of an aircraft with the convenience of a boat.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: North Kingstown, Rhode Island, USA
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Billy Thalheimer (CEO) and Mike Klinker (CTO)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Electric maritime transportation / Aerospace
- Target customers: B2B (commercial operators, ferry companies, logistics firms), B2G (U.S. Marine Corps), and ultimately B2C (passengers and commuters)
- Mission: "To drastically reduce the cost and headache of regional transportation between coastal cities."

## Products & Services
- **Viceroy Seaglider**: A 12-passenger all-electric wing-in-ground-effect craft with a range of 180 miles at 180 mph, designed for regional coastal routes.
- **Monarch Seaglider**: A larger, 50-to-100-passenger all-electric Seaglider for higher-capacity routes, with a first order announced from UME Shipping (July 2024).
- **Squire Seaglider Drone**: A defense-specific unmanned wing-in-ground effect craft, developed under the REGENT Defense division.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Total Funding**: Over $100 million raised from world-class investors. Series A of $60 million co-led by 8090 Industries and Founders Fund (completion announced early, details on company page).
- **Key Metric**: Commercial backlog of Seaglider vessel orders worth over $10 billion as of early 2025 (order book was $9B at end of 2024).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Investors include 8090 Industries, Founders Fund; partners include the U.S. Marine Corps Warfighting Lab (MCWL), Strategic Development Fund (SDF) of the UAE, Brittany Ferries, and UME Shipping.
- **Growth Signals**:
    - Groundbreaking on a 255,000 sq ft manufacturing facility in Quonset Business Park, Rhode Island (January 2025).
    - First on-water sea trials of the full-scale Viceroy Seaglider prototype with humans onboard (2025).
    - Secured a $15 million U.S. Marine Corps contract to demonstrate Seaglider technology for defense logistics.
    - Announced a joint venture with SDF to bring Seaglider manufacturing to the UAE.
    - Opened a second office in Washington, D.C. to support certification and defense efforts.

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-mover in a new category**: As a pioneer of the Seaglider (a wing-in-ground-effect craft certified and operated over water), REGENT is defining a new mode of transportation between "water and air."
- **Backed by top-tier investors**: Supported by the same investors behind SpaceX, Anduril, and Archer Aviation, providing deep capital and strategic network.
- **Strong order book**: Over $10 billion in orders provides significant financial validation and a clear path to revenue.
- **Dual-use technology**: Products serve both commercial (passenger/commuter) and defense (military logistics) markets, diversifying risk and revenue streams.
- **Safety-first design philosophy**: Builds vehicles to the same safety standards as modern aircraft and watercraft, combined with an operating environment that is "always near a safe landing site" (the water).

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale manufacturing**: Completing and operating the new 255,000 sq ft manufacturing facility in Rhode Island to begin production of the Viceroy and Monarch.
- **Certification**: Aggressively working with regulators (including through their D.C. office) to achieve maritime certification for the Seaglider, a critical path to market.
- **Defense expansion**: Growing the REGENT Defense division, as evidenced by the Marine Corps contract and the flight of the Squire drone.
- **Global expansion**: Establishing a joint venture in the UAE for manufacturing and aftermarket services, signaling a push into the Middle East and global markets.

## Why Work Here
- **High-impact, mission-driven work**: Employees directly contribute to creating a new, zero-emission mode of transportation, solving a real-world problem in coastal mobility.
- **Strong engineering culture**: The company is "data first," emphasizes "extreme ownership" and a "every day is a tryout" mentality, focusing on hands-on, practical problem-solving.
- **Equity and benefits**: All employees receive equity in the company. Benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision (with a fully paid premium option), 3 months of paid parental leave, and relocation support.
- **Location**: The primary campus in North Kingstown, RI, combines offices, testing facilities, and manufacturing in one location, offering a unique, hands-on environment. They also have a D.C. office for certification and defense work.
- **Career growth**: Interns and employees work on real projects that directly contribute to the product and company build-out, from flight controls to manufacturing and certification.

## Sources
1. [regentcraft.com](https://www.regentcraft.com/)
2. [regentcraft.com](https://www.regentcraft.com/company)
3. [regentcraft.com](https://www.regentcraft.com/careers)
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/regentcraft)

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