About XAI xAI's mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge.

Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity.

We operate with a flat organizational structure. All employees are expected to be hands-on and to contribute directly to the company's mission. Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence. Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important.

All employees are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates.

About The Role You will be responsible for leading day-to-day security threat management. You will help identify and manage potential incidents and work with partner teams on known or suspected security threats. You will support threat intelligence, threat hunting, intrusion detection, and incident response efforts that adhere to, and push forward, best practices.

Responsibilities

• Drive continual improvement in processes, procedures and automations to improve the quality and effectiveness of the team.
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation performing security incident response
• Commandeering security incidents and updating stakeholders.
• Identify and develop new detection use cases and optimize existing detections.

Required Qualifications

• 2+ years of relevant information security experience
• Self starter, can receive a task and execute with minimal supervision
• Strong Python scripting skills for implementing security automation
• Knowledge of networking and macOS, Windows or Linux operating systems.
• Knowledge of cloud security fundamentals and practices (vendor agnostic).
• Experience managing and/or deploying security technology.
• Experience with building queries and dashboards for security monitoring.

Preferred Qualifications

• Elastic / OpenSearch or similar platforms
• Open Source security automation tooling

Annual Salary Range $140,000 - $180,000 USD

Benefits Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at xAI, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.

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