--- title: 'Lead Security Engineer at Fictiv' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/lead-security-engineer-fictiv-oakland-5379axbgk9rm' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-11' --- # Lead Security Engineer at Fictiv - **Company:** Fictiv - **Location:** Oakland, CA - **Posted:** 2026-09-11 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/fictiv/jobs/8798269002 ## Job description ## About MISUMI Americas MISUMI Americas, a division of MISUMI Group, is a leading provider of standard, configurable, and custom manufacturing solutions. By integrating a vast catalog of components with a world-class digital manufacturing platform, MISUMI Americas empowers engineers and procurement teams to accelerate innovation across the entire product lifecycle. With operations in the San Francisco Bay Area and Chicago, the company serves as a vital partner for the most innovative companies in the Americas. Lead Security Engineer Location: Oakland, CA; Salary Range: $180,240 - $216,120; Citizenship Requirement: Must be a U.S. Citizen or Green Card holder This is a hands-on security engineering job that covers the full range of a lead security engineer role across all of MISUMI Americas. You'll be the person who does a lot of the security day-to-day work: securing our infrastructure, running access audits, setting up controls, reviewing our systems and code, and helping investigate incidents. You'll also have a real say in the policies and priorities that shape how we handle security across the company. A good portion of your time will go to keeping our infrastructure secure. That spans both physical networking and cloud, and it means staying on top of IAM, security groups, permission policies, and application permissions so access to our systems is tight and scoped the way it should be. Threat detection and incident response at MISUMI Americas is handled by a group across multiple departments, and you'll be part of it. When something comes up, you'll help investigate, both hands-on and by helping coordinate the response. You will also be the escalation point for routine security issues that end up being more than expected or the existing teams can handle on their own. As Lead Security Engineer, you'll make security decisions and help us figure out which security projects matter most across MISUMI Americas' global operations. You'll be doing the audits, checks, and reviews, and you'll help shape our security policies and standards alongside security leadership. A big and growing part of the job is how we handle AI. You'll manage the way our AI tools are set up and help determine what's safe to turn on and what needs to be disabled. You'll also work closely with Information Security to contribute and maintain evidence for J-SOX, NIST 800-171, CMMC 2, and SOC 2 across a global business. Areas of Responsibility Security Decisions & Prioritization - Be the hands-on security lead across IT and engineering, making everyday security calls and acting as the main point of execution for security work - Look at security risk across the environment and help decide which security projects and initiatives to tackle first across MISUMI Americas' global operations - Help write, shape, and enforce our security policies, standards, and governance alongside security leadership Incident Response & Escalation - Serve as part of our threat detection and incident response group, a cross-departmental team, helping investigate incidents both hands-on and by coordinating the response - Act as the escalation point for the IT team, giving them direction, mitigations, or solutions when an issue is beyond the routine security task - Dig into root cause on the tougher problems and help put fixes in place so the same thing doesn't keep coming back Infrastructure Security - Keep our infrastructure secure across both physical networking and cloud, from firewalls, segmentation, and wireless to the way our cloud accounts and workloads are set up and protected - Design and manage IAM at the infrastructure level, including roles, security groups, and permission policies, all scoped to least privilege - Review and tighten application permissions and access policies as the environment grows, and catch misconfigurations and permission drift before they turn into problems Identity, Access & User Audits - Run user access audits and regular access reviews across our identity and application layers - Decide what user groups and roles we need to manage access to systems - Handle access as people join, move, and leave, and keep permissions in line with policy AI Security - Manage our enterprise AI tools such as Claude, keeping configurations, roles, and access up to date - Look at new AI capabilities one at a time (Claude for Chrome, for example) and make the call on whether to turn them on and what guardrails they need - Vet new AI integrations before they go live, including running automated scans and reviewing them by hand before any new local MCP server gets approved - Turn those AI security decisions into policies and practices we can reuse Application & Engineering Security - Review systems for security problems, including running automated scans - Check third-party and open-source components before we adopt them - Work with engineering to keep security built into how we ship software and infrastructure Compliance & Audit Support - Pull together and maintain the evidence behind our security audits for J-SOX, NIST 800, CMMC 2.0, and SOC 2 - Run recurring compliance checks and validate controls across MISUMI Americas' global footprint - Match our controls and evidence to what each audit asks for and support the audit from start to finish, focusing on evidence and remediation rather than running the audit yourself Policy, Process & Automation - Take the security work you do by hand and turn it into documented practices, runbooks, and repeatable processes so it doesn't all live with one person - Automate access reviews, monitoring, alerting, and reporting to cut down on manual effort - Keep our security documentation and internal knowledge base current Physical Demands Sitting for extended periods of time working with computers, etc. Travel Expectations Travel 0-10% Desired Traits, Qualifications, Education and Experience - Senior-level, proven expertise across the security domains this role touches: identity and access management, infrastructure and cloud security, governance and compliance, incident response and investigation, application and integration security, and AI/LLM security - Hands-on incident investigation experience, and the judgment to act as an escalation point on user-facing threats like phishing and spam - Strong, hands-on experience securing infrastructure across networking and cloud, including firewalls and segmentation on the network side and IAM, security groups, permission policies, and application permissions on the cloud side - Cloud security experience (AWS, Azure, or similar), and comfort designing roles and RBAC in platforms like Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, or AWS IAM - Familiarity with security monitoring and detection tools, enough to support investigations effectively - Real experience running user access audits, access reviews, and compliance checks - Experience supporting audit and compliance programs like SOC 2, NIST 800-53/800-171, CMMC 2.0, and J-SOX, including gathering evidence and validating controls - Solid application security skills: automation tooling, reading code for security issues, and secure integration practices - The confidence to make security decisions on your own and help sort out competing priorities - A working understanding of AI and LLM security, including administering AI tools, weighing new capabilities for risk, and knowing how integrations like MCP servers fit in - A habit of turning manual security work into repeatable processes and automation - Clear communication and the ability to work across a spread-out, multi-site, global organization Bonus - Certifications like CISSP, CISM, Security+, or GIAC (GSEC, GCIH, and the like) - Firsthand experience preparing for and going through a CMMC 2.0 assessment - Experience with audit and controls at a global, Japanese-owned company (J-SOX exposure) - Scripting and automation skills, for example, Bash, Python or PowerShell We’re actively seeking teammates who: - Bring diverse perspectives and experience to our culture and company. - Excel at being part of a strong, empathetic team. - Thrive in an environment emphasizing respect, honesty, collaboration, and growth. - Have an ‘always learning’ mindset that celebrates learning, not just wins. - Help us continue to build a world-class organization that values the contributions of all of our teammates We encourage applications from members of underrepresented groups, including but not limited to women, members of the LGBTQ community, people of color, people with disabilities, and veterans. ## About Fictiv ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Fictiv provides a digital operating system for custom manufacturing, connecting product creators with a global network of vetted manufacturers to source custom mechanical parts quickly and efficiently. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series E, last funding round May 2022) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States, with additional offices in Guangzhou, China; Phoenix, Arizona; Pune, India; and Bengaluru, India - **Founded**: 2013 - **Founders**: Dave Evans and Nathan Evans ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Custom manufacturing / Digital supply chain services - **Target customers**: B2B, serving early-stage startups to Fortune 500 enterprises across industries such as automotive, medical devices, robotics, and consumer electronics - **Mission / Purpose**: “To enable product creators to innovate” by building the world’s operating system for custom manufacturing – making it possible to build hardware at the speed of software. ## Products & Services - **Digital Manufacturing Platform**: An integrated online system for quoting, design for manufacturability (DFM) feedback, order management, and real-time tracking. Supports 3D printing, CNC machining, injection molding, and urethane casting, with lead times as fast as 1–2 days. - **Global Manufacturing Network**: A managed network of manufacturing partners across the U.S., Mexico, India, China, and Japan, offering supply chain resilience and regional sourcing flexibility. - **Technical Program Management**: Hands-on support from Fictiv engineers and program managers to guide customers from prototype through full-scale production. ## Market Standing - **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed - **Key Metric**: Total funding raised – $200M (as of Series E in May 2022) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Includes Honeywell, Intel, Bill Gates (via Gates Frontier), and other institutional investors [fictiv.com](https://www.fictiv.com/about-us) - **Growth Signals**: - Over 35 million parts manufactured to date [fictiv.com](https://www.fictiv.com/) - Served more than 5,000 companies - Expanded to four global Centers of Excellence (U.S., Mexico, India, China) to reduce supply chain risk - Active hiring across engineering, sales, and operations (51 active jobs on Greenhouse as of mid-2026) ## Competitive Advantages - **Digital-first OS for manufacturing**: Combines an automated quoting and DFM engine with a vetted global network, reducing the typical friction of custom part sourcing. - **Speed and traceability**: Parts delivered in as fast as 24 hours, with full traceability and trackability at every step. - **Global, multi-region supply chain**: Customers can choose supply regions (U.S., Mexico, India, China, Japan) to mitigate geopolitical and logistics risk. - **Enterprise-grade quality management**: Integrated quality control and program management support, appealing to Fortune 500-level production requirements. ## Strategic Focus - **Scaling global manufacturing hubs**: Expanding in-region Centers of Excellence to offer faster, lower-risk production close to customers. - **AI and automation**: Using artificial intelligence to accelerate quoting, DFM feedback, and supply chain decisions (including in employment decisions for internal operations). - **Deepening enterprise relationships**: Targeting large OEMs and regulated industries (medical, aerospace, automotive) with compliance and traceability features. - **Platform ecosystem**: Enhancing the digital platform with new materials, finishes, and real-time analytics to further reduce time-to-market for hardware innovators. ## Why Work Here - **Culture & values**: Emphasizes a “Service Mentality” (value #2), collaboration, diversity, and autonomy. Described as a passionate team across multiple global offices. - **Work policy**: Remote-friendly environment with systems to keep distributed teams connected. Offices in San Francisco, Guangzhou, Phoenix, Pune, and Bengaluru. - **Perks and benefits**: - Monthly virtual work stipend - Wellness perks - Paid volunteer days - Learning and development stipend (Udemy Business courses, continued education stipends) - Leadership coaching for high performers - Paid parental leave - Equity options - **Engineering culture**: Access to modern tools (Salesforce, data engineering, integrations) and direct exposure to executive leadership; strong focus on career growth and autonomy. ## Sources 1. [Fictiv Careers Page](https://www.fictiv.com/careers) 2. [Fictiv Main Website](https://www.fictiv.com/) 3. [Fictiv About Us Page](https://www.fictiv.com/about-us) 4. [Crunchbase – Fictiv](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/fictiv) 5. 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