AssemblyAI

AssemblyAI

Security Operations Engineer

United States · Mid · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$180k-$220kDetected 24 days ago
PythonCode ReviewAWSCloud PlatformsTerraformCI/CDMachine LearningLLMsAgentic AICybersecuritySIEMSOC OperationsIncident ResponseComplianceCommunication

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About the role

  • AssemblyAI runs a mature, multi-framework security and compliance program-including SOC 2 (all trust criteria), ISO 27001, and PCI 4.0-that protects the infrastructure and customer data behind our industry-leading Voice AI API.
  • We're hiring a Security Operations Engineer to join our IT & Security team and take day-to-day ownership of the operational backbone of that program.
  • It's the work that turns a security program on paper into one that demonstrably runs.

Responsibilities

  • Drive SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI 4.0, and other compliance audit cycles: gather and organize evidence, document, design, and build controls, coordinate directly with auditors through fieldwork, and collaborate with internal teams on remediation.
  • Own the compliance automation platform (Vanta): monitor control status, chase down failing checks, keep integrations healthy, and update the risk register as the business and infrastructure evolve.
  • Partner with sales and legal responding to customer and vendor security questionnaires, RFP security sections, and trust-and-safety inquiries.
  • Drive vulnerability triage and prioritization across teams, tracking remediation against SLAs and reporting metrics to stakeholders.
  • Support incident response for security events: evidence collection, timeline construction, documentation, and tracking of post-incident action items.
  • Maintain and improve security runbooks, process documentation, and operational playbooks.
  • Build automation to reduce the manual burden via scripts, integrations, reporting, and tooling.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience in security operations, GRC, IT security, or a related role
  • 2+ years of experience with compliance audit cycles-you've gathered evidence, documented controls, and worked with auditors
  • Experience executing recurring security operations work: security reviews, vulnerability tracking, alert triage, or control monitoring
  • Strong organization-you can run a multi-week evidence collection cycle across many stakeholders without dropping threads
  • Proficiency in Python and comfort reading code written by others

Nice to have

  • Experience with security tooling across the development lifecycle-SAST, SCA, DAST, secret scanning, or IaC scanning-and routing findings to the right owners
  • Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform preferred) and CI/CD pipeline security
  • Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), including IAM concepts, and of identity and SaaS administration
  • Familiarity with endpoint security platforms and cloud security posture tooling
  • Experience securing AI/ML systems or inference infrastructure
  • Experience at a high-growth startup in a security role
  • Application security fundamentals: threat modeling, secure code review, or familiarity with common vulnerability classes (OWASP Top 10, CWE)

Skills

  • Why AssemblyAI
  • Our models serve 600M+ inference calls monthly, process 1M+ hours of audio daily, and power 2 billion+ end-user experiences.

Compensation

  • $180,000 - $220,000 USD
  • The expected base compensation for this role is listed above.
  • Our total compensation package includes competitive equity grants, 100% employer-paid benefits, and the flexibility of being fully remote.
  • AssemblyAI strives to recruit and retain exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds while ensuring pay equity for our team.
  • Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our size, stage, and industry, and are one part of many compensation, benefit, and other reward opportunities we provide.
  • There are many factors that go into salary determinations, including relevant experience, skill level, qualifications assessed during the interview process, and maintaining internal equity with peers on the team.

Benefits

  • AssemblyAI strives to recruit and retain exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds while ensuring pay equity for our team.
  • There are many factors that go into salary determinations, including relevant experience, skill level, qualifications assessed during the interview process, and maintaining internal equity with peers on the team.

Company info

  • The Voice AI space is at an inflection point; we're looking for folks truly excited to join a small team and help define the future of the industry.
  • We are one of the most capital-efficient AI companies on the planet - with under 100 people generating roughly $600K ARR per employee, we sit among the top 5 most revenue-dense teams within the fastest-growing AI companies today.
  • With thousands of customers including Granola, Fireflies, Figure AI, and CallRail, the company has real scale - processing over 2 million hours of audio daily and handling more than 1 million API calls every day.
  • The range shared below is a general expectation for the function as posted, but we are also open to considering candidates who may be more or less experienced than outlined in the job description.
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