Principal Engineer-IAM

BEACON TECHNOLOGIES INC
United States
24 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
10 years minimum
Compensation
$180,000.0 - $220,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence Cyber Security Identity and Access Management Intrusion Detection and Prevention Key Management Open Web Application Security Large Language Models Information Technology Virtual Agents

Job description

  • Provides technical leadership for enterprise threat modeling, identity security, and AI-related attack mitigation.
  • Defines architectures and controls for human, machine, and AI identities, including agent provisioning and governance.
  • Advances adaptive authentication, risk-based access, and AI-powered detection to improve security and reduce friction.

Agentic Identity & Machine Governance

  • Establishes frameworks for AI agent provisioning, accountability, and policy enforcement.
  • Develops strategies for secrets management, workload identity, and credential lifecycle.
  • Addresses risks from autonomous systems and identity sprawl.

AI-Driven Operations & Innovation

  • Champions automation for access reviews, role mining, and anomaly detection.
  • Leads research on AI threats, adversarial techniques, and security frameworks like OWASP LLM Top 10.
  • Promotes adoption of modern security technologies and best practices.

Collaboration & Leadership

  • Partners with product and engineering teams to embed security into design.
  • Mentors engineers, influences leadership on risk posture, and establishes technical standards for detection and response.
  • Skills Required

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related technical field, or equivalent work experience
  • 10+ years of experience in security engineering or related field
  • Proven experience defining and executing enterprise security strategy
  • Deep knowledge of modern threats, attack techniques, and detection engineering
  • Experience with threat modeling, incident response, and security operations
  • Demonstrated ability to influence both technical and executive stakeholders
  • Preferred:
  • Proven ability to evaluate protocols, practices, and patterns based on enterprise fit, risk management, operability, and adoption at scale
  • Advance adaptive authentication and risk-based access decisions informed by behavioral analytics, AI-driven risk signals, device posture, and contextual intelligence.
  • Knowledge of Agentic AI architectures, AI agents, machine identities, non-human identities (NHI), autonomous systems, and AI-enabled workflows. Experience establishing governance, authorization, accountability, and trust models for autonomous actors.
  • Familiarity with AI security frameworks (e.g., OWASP LLM Top 10, MITRE ATLAS)

Benefits & conditions

  • 401(k)
  • 401(k) matching
  • Dental insurance
  • Employee assistance program
  • Employee discount
  • Flexible schedule
  • Health insurance
  • Health savings account
  • Life insurance
  • Paid time off
  • Parental leave
  • Referral program
  • Retirement plan
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Vision insurance

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