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Salary: USD 154,000 - 207,000 / annual
Muon Space, a LEO satellite constellation provider founded in 2021, seeks a Senior Security Risk Analyst to join the Security Engineering & IT team. This role focuses on identifying, assessing, and helping address security risks across the company's infrastructure, data, and operations. You will operate independently to protect Muon's environment while supporting compliance with NIST 800-171, CMMC, ITAR/EAR, and other regulatory frameworks.
Key responsibilities include:
- Lead security risk assessments across engineering, IT, operations, and business functions
- Maintain a risk register and provide leadership with a current view of Muon's risk posture
- Partner with teams company-wide to drive remediation of identified risks and track closure
- Assess security risk of new tools, vendors, third parties, and architectural/process changes
- Define and apply consistent risk frameworks using likelihood/impact scoring, risk acceptance, and exception management
- Map risks and controls to compliance requirements and support audits and assessments
- Report risk trends and metrics to leadership with investment recommendations
- Help teams build risk-aware processes and take ownership of their risks
The role may be fully remote from an approved U.S. location, hybrid, or on-site at the San Jose office.
Qualifications:
- 5+ years in information security, security engineering, or security risk/GRC roles
- Hands-on experience running security risk assessments and managing a risk register
- Strong understanding of security risk frameworks and methodologies (NIST RMF / 800-30, FAIR, or similar)
- Familiarity with compliance frameworks such as NIST 800-171, CMMC, SOC 2, or ISO 27001
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills to convey risk and priorities to engineers and leadership
Nice-to-have: relevant certifications (CISSP, CRISC, CISA), background in ITAR/EAR export control environments.
