Security Engineer Detection and Response
SpaceXAI builds frontier AI models and products including the Grok conversational assistant and a multimodal developer API.
Funding history
About SpaceXAI
SpaceXAI is a US-based AI company focused on accelerating scientific discovery and understanding the universe through reasoning, voice, image, video, and generative AI systems. Formerly xAI, it was acquired by SpaceX effective February 2, 2026, while continuing to operate the x.ai site and services.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead day-to-day threat management, identify and manage security incidents, and support threat intelligence, hunting, intrusion detection, and incident response. You will improve security processes and automation, develop detections, investigate events, manage security systems, and assess system vulnerabilities.
Requirements
- 2+ years of relevant information-security experience
- Python scripting skills for security automation
- Knowledge of networking and macOS, Windows, or Linux
- Knowledge of cloud security fundamentals and practices
- Experience managing or deploying security technology
- Experience building security-monitoring queries and dashboards
- Knowledge of current threats and techniques
- Experience with malware analysis, forensics, or penetration testing
- Problem-solving or troubleshooting experience
Responsibilities
- Improve security processes, procedures, and automations
- Participate in a 24/7 on-call security incident-response rotation
- Lead security incidents and update stakeholders
- Develop and optimize detection use cases
- Collaborate on security technical directions and solutions
- Research and analyze security-event patterns
- Lead threat-hunting missions
- Manage log collection, security scanning, and intrusion-detection systems
- Develop automation to reduce false positives and handle events automatically
- Analyze system security posture through testing and vulnerability impact analysis