Director Security Technology Engineering - TX, Austin, United States
Originally posted 6 August 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role is responsible for defining and driving the enterprise security technology strategy, identifying capability gaps, evaluating emerging technologies, and delivering solutions that strengthen the organization's security posture.
What you'll do
- Define and lead the enterprise security technology strategy and roadmap.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of existing security capabilities and identify opportunities to improve coverage, efficiency, and resilience.
- Drive technology selection, integration, and optimization across the security ecosystem.
- Design and develop custom security solutions, automation, integrations, and AI-enabled capabilities.
- Lead initiatives that leverage AI to enhance security operations, threat detection, security analytics, and exposure management.
- Establish and evolve security controls, governance, and operational practices that support enterprise AI and agentic systems.
What you'll need
- Proven experience leading security engineering programs, security platform strategy, or enterprise security technology initiatives.
- Demonstrated track record of designing and building custom security solutions that delivered measurable operational or risk-reduction outcomes.
- Strong software engineering and automation experience, including development of security applications, integrations, workflows, data pipelines, analytics platforms, or AI-powered capabilities.
- Demonstrated experience building solutions that leverage security telemetry, operational data, and analytics to generate actionable insights.
- Proven ability to define security technology roadmaps and drive implementation from concept through operational adoption.
- Bachelor’s degree in CS, Cybersecurity, Information Security, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field.
Nice to have
- Experience operating within large, complex, or rapidly evolving enterprise environments.
- Practical experience applying AI, machine learning, or advanced analytics to security use cases.
- Familiarity with securing AI platforms, models, agents, and supporting infrastructure.
- Experience working with security telemetry, data pipelines, analytics platforms, or security data engineering.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with security architects and engineering teams to translate strategy into implementation.
Skills: security technology strategy, security engineering, AI-enabled tooling, security controls, threat detection
This role has been open 73 days — well above the 60-day median for Hardware Security Engineering roles.
Hardware Security Engineering · Hardware Security
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Open roles in category
185
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Median days open
60 d
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Median salary
$224k
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| Metric | AMD | All employers we track in this specialty (185 roles · 46 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 8 | 185 |
| Median days open | 59 d | 60 d (−1 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $224k |
Skills observed across this category: security technology strategy, security engineering, AI-enabled tooling, security controls, threat detection
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 28 open roles · median 34 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 23 open roles · median 108 d
- Qualcomm · 17 open roles · median 122 d
- Arm Holdings · 13 open roles · median 102 d
- STMicroelectronics · 11 open roles · median 16 d
- AMD (this employer) · 8 open roles · median 58 d
How we counted: 185 open Hardware Security Engineering (Hardware Security) roles from 46 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 18 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there. Figures refresh nightly.