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GovSignals
Washington, District of Columbia, United States; New York, United States
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Security Authorization Lead
Washington, DC or New York, NY • Full-time • Hybrid (3+ days/week in office)
GovSignals is the AI system of work for government contracting. It can take the government longer to buy a capability than an adversary takes to field one, and we exist to close that gap.
We're the only startup managing government contract data with AI in both FedRAMP High and DoW Impact Level 5 environments. Our platform monitors 5,000+ live government data sources, 100,000+ federal and state agencies, and 2,000,000+ government contracts in real time. Our customers in government include offices like DIU and SOCOM, and our customers in industry range from small contractors to Fortune 500 primes with billions in annual awards.
In the past 18 months, we've earned FedRAMP High and IL5 authorizations, joined GSA MAS and the MDA SHIELD IDIQ, and signed some of the biggest names in government contracting.
We're hiring a Security Authorization Lead to get GovSignals deployments through government security approval and keep them approved. You'll work under the CISO with support from the CTO, and you'll be the first person here dedicated to this work full time.
Our customers cannot use GovSignals until their own security office says yes. Every deployment brings a different boundary, a different set of reviewers, and a different list of questions about how their data is handled. You'll plan that path with the customer before work starts, write documentation that survives a line-by-line read, answer reviewers directly, carry findings to closure, and keep the evidence current afterward so the next deployment starts ahead of where the last one did.
GovSignals operates at FedRAMP High and DoW IL5 today. Some deployments will require IL6. The work also covers CMMC Level 2, SOC 2, and whatever a specific customer asks for.
GovSignals was founded by four cofounders who lived with this problem from both sides (selling to the government and serving inside it) with backgrounds across the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Department of Energy, Palantir, Amazon, federal contractors building for missiles, and state contractors building for prisons. You'll work directly with all four. Other team members at GovSignals have shipped to defense companies, scaled venture-backed startups, and founded companies of their own.
HOW WE WORK
Design by HI (Human Intelligence), Work by AI (Artificial Intelligence). Human Intelligence takes responsibility for what we build and how we communicate to customers. Artificial Intelligence does much of the building. We provide unlimited Claude and ChatGPT credits for reasonable use, and we expect you to come in with extensive AI experience.
HOW WE HIRE
Intro conversation (30 min): your background and how you work.
Working session (1 hr): real-world inspired security exercises.
Co-founder conversations (15 min): meet the cofounders.
Meet the team in person (45 min): time with the team at our Washington, DC or Brooklyn, NY office.
Offer.
Compensation
Base Salary: $140,000 – $190,000
Equity: Meaningful stake in a well-funded, fast-growing startup
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