--- title: 'Lead Security Engineer at Fictiv' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/lead-security-engineer-fictiv-schaumburg-71wvvqvjxf07' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-11' --- # Lead Security Engineer at Fictiv - **Company:** Fictiv - **Location:** Schaumburg, IL - **Posted:** 2026-09-11 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/fictiv/jobs/8798216002 ## 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 MISUMI Americas — Schaumburg, IL ## About MISUMI Americas MISUMI Americas combines Fictiv's digital manufacturing platform with MISUMI's 60+ year legacy of industrial precision, giving engineers and manufacturers a single source for standard, configurable, and custom fabricated parts. ## About the Role We're looking for a hands-on Lead Security Engineer to own the full range of security engineering work across MISUMI Americas. You'll secure our infrastructure, run access audits, build and enforce controls, review our systems and code, and help investigate incidents — and you'll have a real voice in the policies and priorities that shape how we handle security company-wide. A big part of the job is infrastructure: both physical networking and cloud. You'll keep IAM, security groups, permission policies, and application permissions tightly scoped to least privilege. You'll also sit on our cross-departmental threat detection and incident response group, and act as the escalation point when a routine security issue turns into something bigger than the IT team can handle alone. You'll help decide which security projects matter most across our global operations, run the audits and reviews that back that up, and help shape security policy and standards alongside security leadership. A growing part of the role is AI: you'll manage how our AI tools (including Claude) are configured, decide what new AI capabilities are safe to turn on, and vet integrations — including reviewing new MCP servers — before they go live. You'll also work with Information Security to build and maintain evidence for J-SOX, NIST 800-171, CMMC 2.0, and SOC 2 across a global business. ## What You'll Do Security Decisions & Prioritization - Act as the hands-on security lead across IT and engineering, and the main point of execution for security work - Help decide which security projects and initiatives to tackle first across MISUMI Americas' global operations - Help write, shape, and enforce security policies, standards, and governance alongside security leadership Incident Response & Escalation - Serve on our cross-departmental threat detection and incident response team, investigating incidents hands-on and helping coordinate the response - Act as the escalation point for IT, providing direction, mitigations, or solutions when an issue goes beyond routine - Dig into root cause on tougher problems and put fixes in place so they don't recur Infrastructure Security - Keep infrastructure secure across physical networking and cloud — firewalls, segmentation, wireless, and cloud account/workload configuration - Design and manage IAM at the infrastructure level: roles, security groups, and permission policies scoped to least privilege - Review and tighten application permissions and access policies as the environment grows; catch misconfigurations and permission drift early Identity, Access & User Audits - Run user access audits and regular access reviews across identity and application layers - Determine what user groups and roles are needed to manage system access - Handle access changes as people join, move, and leave, keeping permissions aligned with policy AI Security - Manage enterprise AI tools such as Claude, keeping configurations, roles, and access current - Evaluate new AI capabilities (e.g., Claude for Chrome) and decide whether to enable them and what guardrails they need - Vet new AI integrations before launch, including automated scans and manual review of any new local MCP server - Turn AI security decisions into reusable policies and practices Application & Engineering Security - Review systems for security issues, including running automated scans - Vet third-party and open-source components before adoption - Partner with engineering to build security into how we ship software and infrastructure Compliance & Audit Support - Gather and maintain audit evidence for J-SOX, NIST 800-171, CMMC 2.0, and SOC 2 - Run recurring compliance checks and validate controls across our global footprint - Map controls and evidence to audit requirements and support audits start to finish, with a focus on evidence and remediation Policy, Process & Automation - Turn manual security work into documented practices, runbooks, and repeatable processes - Automate access reviews, monitoring, alerting, and reporting - Keep security documentation and the internal knowledge base current ## What We're Looking For - Senior-level, hands-on expertise across identity and access management, infrastructure/cloud security, governance and compliance, incident response, application/integration security, and AI/LLM security - Hands-on incident investigation experience and the judgment to serve as an escalation point on user-facing threats like phishing and spam - Strong experience securing infrastructure across networking and cloud — firewalls and segmentation on the network side; IAM, security groups, permission policies, and application permissions on the cloud side - Cloud security experience (AWS, Azure, or similar) and comfort designing roles/RBAC in platforms like Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, or AWS IAM - Familiarity with security monitoring and detection tools sufficient to support investigations - Real experience running user access audits, access reviews, and compliance checks - Experience supporting audit/compliance programs such as SOC 2, NIST 800-53/800-171, CMMC 2.0, and J-SOX, including evidence gathering and control validation - Solid application security skills: automation tooling, secure code review, and secure integration practices - Confidence to make independent security decisions and sort competing priorities - Working understanding of AI/LLM security — administering AI tools, weighing new capabilities for risk, and evaluating integrations like MCP servers - A habit of converting manual security work into repeatable process and automation - Clear communication and the ability to work across a distributed, multi-site, global organization Location This role is located at our Schaumburg, IL office. ## Compensation $150,200 - $180,100 Eligibility Candidates must be a US citizen or green card holder. 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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