About 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.
🏢 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.
🎯 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.
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.
✅ Key Responsibilities
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
📌 Required Qualifications
Hands-on incident investigation experience and the judgment to serve as an escalation point on user-facing threats like phishing and spam
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
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
🎁 Benefits
Compensation: $150,200 - $180,100
Candidates must be a US citizen or green card holder.
🛂 Visa & Eligibility
Candidates must be a US citizen or green card holder.
