Director of Infrastructure & Security

About Machina Labs 

Engineering moves at software speed. Manufacturing doesn’t. Yet. 

Machina Labs is changing that. We build intelligent, software-defined factories that produce complex metal structures directly from digital design. By integrating advanced metal forming, robotics, and automated production inside a flexible factory architecture, we enable customers to move from prototype to production in weeks, not years. 

Backed by Lockheed Martin, Toyota, and NVIDIA, we’re building the manufacturing infrastructure that defense, aerospace, and advanced mobility programs will run on. 

If you want to work on hard problems that matter and see them fly, drive, and defend, this is the place. 

About the Role 

Machina Labs is looking for a Director of Infrastructure & Security to build the secure, scalable technology foundation for our next stage of growth. 

You’ll lead enterprise IT, cloud and DevOps infrastructure, cybersecurity, compliance, and physical security systems across Machina Labs’ commercial operations and Machina Bellator, our defense-focused subsidiary. 

This is a build role. You’ll inherit capable teams and an existing technology foundation, but there is significant work ahead as Machina scales. You will define the infrastructure and security roadmap, strengthen our defense-compliant environment, build our Security Engineering capability, and ensure our systems can scale without slowing down the engineers and operators who rely on them. 

You’ll report to the VP of Engineering – Software & IT and partner closely with leaders across Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, EHS, Legal, and the broader business. 

This is a player-coach role for someone who can set strategy and build organizations while staying close enough to the technology to dive in when it matters. 

What You’ll Do 

• Set the infrastructure and security strategy. Define and execute the strategy for IT, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, and security systems across Machina Labs and Machina Bellator as our teams, facilities, and defense programs scale. 

• Lead and grow the organization. Lead the IT and DevOps teams, define the organization needed for the next stage of growth, develop existing leaders, and build the Security Engineering function from the ground up. 

• Scale cloud and DevOps infrastructure. Guide the architecture, reliability, security, and cost management of our AWS environment in partnership with DevOps and Software Engineering. Establish scalable approaches to infrastructure as code, CI/CD, observability, and production operations. 

• Build our cybersecurity capability. Establish and mature security operations across endpoint protection, SIEM and logging, threat detection and response, vulnerability management, incident response, and security architecture. 

• Lead technical defense compliance. Own the technology strategy, controls, documentation, and audit readiness required to support CMMC, NIST SP 800-171, DFARS, ITAR/EAR, and other requirements associated with our defense and aerospace programs. 

• Own physical security technology. Partner with EHS, which owns the broader physical security program, to architect and operate the technology behind facility security — including access control, surveillance, identity integration, monitoring, and related security systems. 

• Establish policy and governance. Partner with Legal, EHS, Compliance, Engineering, and Operations to create pragmatic security and IT policies that protect the company and satisfy customer and regulatory requirements without creating unnecessary friction.