Senior Security Risk Analyst
About the Role
Muon seeks a Senior Security Risk Engineer to join our Security Engineering & IT team. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise across multiple security domains and can operate independently to protect Muon’s infrastructure, data, and people. You will focus on security risk — identifying, assessing, and helping address risks across our environment and every company function, from engineering and IT to operations, finance, and the supply chain. You will run risk assessments, prioritize what matters most, drive remediation with the teams that own it, and give leadership a clear, current picture of Muon's risk posture, including compliance efforts such as NIST 800-171 and ITAR/EAR.
This position may be fully on-site at our San Jose office, hybrid, or fully remote from an approved U.S. location.
Responsibilities
- Lead security risk assessments across the company — identify, analyze, and prioritize risks across engineering, IT, operations, and business functions
- Maintain a risk register and a clear, current view of Muon's risk posture for leadership
- Partner with teams across the company to drive remediation of identified risks and track them to closure
- Assess the security risk of new tools, vendors, third parties, and architectural
