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Security & IT Engineer

Warp Sciences · South San Francisco · On-site

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About Warp Sciences

Warp is the AI-driven U.S. chemistry CRO that turns AI-designed molecules into compounds drug discovery teams can test, in labs built for automation. Backed by Menlo Ventures.

About the role

Own the employee technology lifecycle, including computer and peripheral selection, purchasing, provisioning, inventory, support, maintenance, and retirement. Deliver an excellent onboarding and offboarding experience. Coordinate equipment, accounts, permissions, badges, orientation, access removal, and asset recovery so employees are productive and secure from their first day through their last. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • We care much more about what you’ve built, operated, and improved than your title or number of years of experience
  • Broad, hands-on ownership of an internal technology environment spanning employee devices, identity, SaaS applications, networks, workplace systems, and support
  • AI-native working habits. You use AI substantively in your own work, have built tools or automations with it, and have helped deploy AI technology safely and successfully across an organization
  • The technical judgment to evaluate, test, debug, and maintain systems regardless of whether they were purchased, written by you, produced with AI, or delivered by a contractor
  • Experience owning SOC 2 processes through completion, including control owners, evidence, assessors, remediation, and sustained operation after the examination
  • Experience responding to real security incidents, including containment, investigation, recovery, communication, and turning lessons into durable improvements
More about this role

At Warp Sciences, our mission is to help the world discover new medicines faster—and build the capacity to do it here in America. We bring AI, robotics, and life sciences together in automated labs that design, run, and learn from experiments, with each experiment making the next one better. We’re not developing drugs of our own. We’re building the infrastructure for the people who do.

We’re looking for an Security & IT Engineer to own how technology works inside Warp and continually make it better. Your users are the scientists, engineers, and operators building the company. You’ll keep the systems, technologies, and people safe and secure. You’ll ensure they have reliable equipment, secure access, and excellent tools—and build the integrations, automations, and AI workflows that help them accomplish more.

This is a senior, hands-on individual contributor role with responsibility for defining and operating the function. You’ll move comfortably between troubleshooting equipment, designing a network, deploying an AI tool, responding to a security issue, and helping a colleague get unstuck. You’ll manage contractors and specialist partners while remaining accountable for the...

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