The FSO operates as a key contributor within a dynamic, fast-paced defense environment, responsible for executing and scaling security operations in support of classified programs. This role requires a highly adaptable, solutions-oriented professional who can balance compliance with operational speed while maintaining strict adherence to NISPOM and government security requirements.
You will partner cross-functionally with engineering, operations, and program teams to enable mission success while safeguarding classified information and controlled technologies.
What you'll do:
- Execute daily collateral security operations in a high-growth environment
- Maintain daily classified document control, accountability, and safeguarding
- Support classified facility operations and Restricted Areas
- Process badge requests and issuance with accuracy and timeliness
- Facilitate weekly local new hire orientation and onboarding
- Present New Hire Security Training as required
- Daily processing, disclosure, and hosting of foreign visits in accordance with NISPOM
- Coordinate with internal stakeholders to ensure compliant execution
- Support classified meetings hosting
- Perform daily Restricted Area maintenance and access control management
- Enforce entry/exit procedures and access requirements
- Execute end-of-day Restricted Area security procedures
- Process Technology Control Plans (TCPs) in support of Corporate FSO
- Support ITAR/EAR compliance and controlled technology safeguards
- Respond to local alarms, GSOC alerts, and security incidents
- Provide immediate response to outages and emergent issues
- Document and report incidents in accordance with policy
- Manage classified shipping and receiving
- Maintain accountability and proper transfer procedures for classified materials
- Serve as Alternate Collateral COMSEC Officer
- Support COMSEC accountability, handling, and compliance requirements
- Act as a trusted security partner to internal teams
- Provide guidance on security requirements, reporting obligations, and best practices
Security Operations & Program Execution
Personnel Security & Onboarding
Foreign Visits & External Engagements
Restricted Area (RA) & Access Control
Technology Control & Compliance
Incident Response & Operations
Classified Handling & Logistics
COMSEC & Security Support
Cross-Functional Partnership
Required qualifications:
- Must be a U.S. Citizen
- MUST HAVE Active Top Secret Security Clearance
- Completion of FSO Program Management for Possessing Facilities (Safeguarding Certification)
- 5+ years of experience in industrial security or cleared environments
- Working knowledge of NISPOM (32 CFR Part 117)
- Experience with DISS, NISS, or equivalent systems
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience in a fast-paced or high-growth defense environment
- Familiarity with foreign visit processing and TCPs
- Experience supporting classified facility operations or Restricted Areas
- Experience delivering security training or briefings
Skills Required
- Must be a U.S. Citizen
- Active Top Secret Security Clearance
- Completion of FSO Program Management for Possessing Facilities (Safeguarding Certification)
- 2-4+ years of experience in industrial security or cleared environments
- Working knowledge of NISPOM (32 CFR Part 117)
- Experience with DISS, NISS, or equivalent personnel/security systems
- Experience in a fast-paced or high-growth defense environment
- Familiarity with foreign visit processing and Technology Control Plans (TCPs)
- Experience supporting classified facility operations or Restricted Areas
- Experience delivering security training or briefings
What the Team is Saying
Shield AI Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage includes medical, dental, vision, and mental-health support, with company materials describing excellent coverage. Feedback suggests these offerings are comprehensive and consistently highlighted across official and third-party benefit lists.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity is granted to all full-time hires, with RSU structures and tools like Carta Tax intended to improve understanding and tax timing. Feedback suggests this broad-based ownership approach is a notable component of total rewards.
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Parental & Family Support — Benefits include paid parental leave, fertility support, childcare benefits, family medical leave, and onsite resources such as a Mother's Room. Feedback suggests the family-oriented offerings are more expansive than basic coverage.
Shield AI Insights
What We Do
At Shield AI, you won't wait years to see your work reach the field. You'll build hardware and software that operates in the real world right now, in the hands of the people who depend on it. Hivemind, our AI pilot, has been flying since 2018. It has flown more than 30 platforms, including an F-16, and it now sits under a U.S. Air Force production contract for Collaborative Combat Aircraft. When you write code or shape a system here, you contribute to technology with a proven flight record and a clear production future. V-BAT flies intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions with an operational record that stretches from Ukraine to the Indo-Pacific. It delivers eyes where they matter most, in the most demanding conditions on earth. The teams behind it watch their work get tested where the stakes are real. X-BAT takes its first flight this year. It's an AI-piloted fighter that needs no runway, built to operate where traditional aircraft can't. Join now and you help shape a program at its earliest, most formative stage. That's the kind of ground-floor work that defines a career. Do the most impactful work of your life, on problems that matter. Autonomy at this level asks a lot of you. You'll take on problems in perception, planning, and control that few teams anywhere are equipped to solve. You'll work across disciplines, from aerospace and robotics to machine learning and systems engineering, alongside people who hold themselves to an exacting standard and expect the same from you. Our mission is clear: protect service members and civilians with intelligent systems. That purpose runs through every decision, every design review, and every deployment. It's why the work here carries a weight you can feel. Ready to join our mission? Explore our open roles and find where you fit.
Why Work With Us
Founded in 2015 by a former Navy SEAL, Shield AI builds AI pilots and uncrewed aircraft. Veterans aren't an afterthought here, they're at every level. It's why the work carries weight: AI pilots and uncrewed aircraft flying real missions, from Ukraine to the Indo-Pacific, protecting service members and civilians.
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