We are seeking a Facility Security Officer (FSO) to manage and administer the organization’s industrial security program in support of classified government contracts and secure operations. The FSO will serve as the primary point of contact for all facility security matters and ensure compliance with the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual (NISPOM), DoD regulations, and customer-specific security requirements.
The ideal candidate has experience managing classified programs, administering personnel security processes, maintaining compliance with DCSA requirements, and supporting secure facilities operating at the Secret and Top Secret levels.
What you'll do:
- Administer and oversee the company’s industrial security program in accordance with NISPOM, DCSA guidance, and government customer requirements.
- Serve as the primary liaison with DCSA, government security representatives, and internal leadership regarding security matters.
- Manage personnel security actions, including clearance processing, visit requests, indoctrinations, debriefings, and access determinations.
- Maintain accurate security records in DISS, NBIS, and other government security systems.
- Develop, implement, and maintain facility security policies, procedures, and training programs.
- Conduct security education, annual refresher training, and insider threat awareness training for cleared personnel.
- Oversee classified document control, storage, transmission, destruction, and accountability processes.
- Ensure compliance with physical security requirements for closed areas, secure rooms, alarms, and classified storage containers.
- Support government inspections, self-inspections, audits, and corrective action plans.
- Coordinate and process classified visit certifications and foreign travel/security reporting requirements.
- Assist program teams with contract security classification specifications (DD254s) and security requirements implementation.
- Support insider threat program activities and coordinate with company leadership and cybersecurity personnel as required.
- Maintain readiness for DCSA assessments and ensure timely resolution of security findings.
Required qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice, Security Management, Business Administration, or related field; equivalent experience may be substituted.
- 8 years of industrial security or related security management experience.
- Experience serving in an FSO or Assistant FSO role supporting cleared defense contractor environments.
- Strong working knowledge of NISPOM, DCSA processes, and classified information handling procedures.
- Experience using DISS, NBIS, NISS, and related government security systems.
- Ability to interpret DD254s and implement contract-specific security requirements.
- Experience conducting security training, inspections, and compliance assessments.
- Excellent organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and maintain strict attention to detail.
- Active Top Secret security clearance required.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice, Security Management, Business Administration, or related field (or equivalent experience)
- 4-8 years of industrial security or related security management experience
- Experience serving in an FSO or Assistant FSO role supporting cleared defense contractor environments
- Strong working knowledge of NISPOM, DCSA processes, and classified information handling procedures
- Experience using DISS, NBIS, NISS, and related government security systems
- Ability to interpret DD254s and implement contract-specific security requirements
- Experience conducting security training, inspections, and compliance assessments
- Excellent organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and maintain strict attention to detail
- Active Top Secret security clearance
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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.
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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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