Top Tech Jobs & Startup Jobs in Houston, TX

Lead Washington and Oregon policy advocacy to advance zero-emission shipping and port readiness. Engage legislatures, regulatory hearings, port leadership, and coalitions; craft policy materials; conduct research; run grassroots and digital campaigns; manage projects, events, and coalition-building with community, labor, and tribal partners.

Lead and scale Cape's security organization to protect a carrier-grade cellular network and corporate systems. Own security strategy, architecture, incident response, red-teaming, threat modeling, vendor/auditor relationships, and board-level risk communication while embedding security into product development.

Lead life insurance product development and pricing engagements, grow client relationships, originate business, review financial projections, provide thought leadership, support M&A and reinsurance transactions, partner with strategy teams, and manage and develop project staff.

Lead strategy, operations, and security for a national, multi-site nonprofit. Own MSP/vendor relationships, ServiceNow platform, incident response, and AI-driven automation to improve service delivery and security posture. Manage a team of direct reports plus MSP resources, drive infrastructure initiatives and compliance, and serve as executive liaison and student mentor.

Manage and execute AI safety and security policy projects: develop workplans, conduct research and policy analysis, coordinate stakeholders, run convenings and policy sprints, produce briefings and written products, and support program management for AI safety initiatives.

Lead security engineering across web apps, APIs, cloud (AWS/OCI), Kubernetes, and on-prem systems. Build CI/CD security, secure genomic and PHI/PII pipelines (HIPAA), run monitoring and incident response, prepare for HIPAA/SOC2/ISO27001 audits, perform pentesting/vulnerability discovery, improve logging/SIEM, and drive remediation with engineering and DevOps while raising company-wide security awareness.

Design and assess secure architectures for software, embedded, hardware, and cloud systems. Lead threat modeling, risk assessments, compliance/ATO support (RMF, NIST, CMMC), security testing, and remediation. Establish secure engineering standards, mentor teams, and collaborate across engineering and program stakeholders to integrate security throughout the product lifecycle.

Build and maintain tools and services that ingest, classify, store, and review intelligence for Elliptic's graph database. Collaborate with analysts and researchers to automate workflows, deploy AI where appropriate, implement observability, and scale collection and analysis pipelines.

Provide entry-level cybersecurity engineering support for a NAVSEA program office: assist implementing security measures, monitor system posture, support documentation and compliance, and help implement cyber controls under supervision for classified programs.

Perform NIST-based security control assessments and risk assessments, develop and review System Security Plans (SSP), produce SAR/RAR and POA&Ms, support SA&A (C&A) and contingency planning, and liaise with system owners and executives. Provide clear written and verbal deliverables and operate independently on security assessment tasks.