Senior Manager, Information Security - Santa Clara, United States

Originally posted 30 September 2026 by the employer.

Protect proprietary chip design IP and EDA workflows at d-Matrix.

About the role

As the first dedicated Information Security hire, the Senior Manager, Information Security will build a unified security function, consolidating security responsibilities across the company. This role focuses on protecting proprietary chip design IP, EDA workflows, the software supply chain, internal AI agents, and corporate, cloud, and lab infrastructure.

What you'll do

- Build and execute a unified security roadmap and budget across corporate IT, cloud, and product development, consolidating tools and managing security vendors. - Partner with IT and SRE to mature identity governance, endpoint detection and response, vendor risk management, and incident response, and lead readiness for compliance programs such as SOC 2 Type II and ISO/IEC 27001. - Protect chip design IP (RTL, GDSII), EDA workflows, and software source through least-privilege access, network segmentation, exfiltration controls, and encrypted transfer to foundry and OSAT partners. - Partner with hardware teams to assess foundry, component-sourcing, and logistics risk and co-architect hardware roots of trust, unique chip identifiers, and secure boot. - Establish trusted software supply chain practices, including SBOMs, signed builds, and provenance tracking for compilers, runtimes, and model artifacts. - Secure cloud, colocation, on-premises, API, and customer-facing inference environments by enforcing Zero Trust, phishing-resistant MFA, and DevSecOps practices.

What you'll need

- 7+ years of experience in information security. - 3+ years of experience leading security programs or teams. - Technical literacy across corporate IT (RBAC, MDM, SIEM), cloud environments (Kubernetes), and CI/CD security. - Experience protecting IP-intensive engineering environments, such as semiconductor, hardware, defense, or other sensitive design and source data. - Practical understanding of how LLMs and autonomous AI agents operate, interact with APIs, and handle sensitive data. - Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Nice to have

- Direct experience managing semiconductor or hardware supply chain security, such as foundry/OSAT relationships, secure IP transfer, hardware roots of trust, or anti-counterfeiting measures. - Experience securing hybrid, colocation, or on-premises lab infrastructure alongside cloud environments. - Experience managing compliance audits from initial readiness through SOC 2 Type II or ISO 27001 certification. - Active industry credentials, such as CISSP, CISM, or specialized AI/cloud security certifications.

Skills: chip design IP, EDA workflows, hardware roots of trust, secure boot, software supply chain practices