Security Engineer

About Menlo

Menlo Research is an Applied R&D lab building Asimov, an open-source humanoid robot platform, and the full software stack that powers it. Our mission is to make humanoid labor economically viable - turning software into physical labor at scale. We build across the full stack: hardware architecture, locomotion, autonomy, simulation, and infrastructure. We move fast, ship to real robots, and open-source everything we can. If you want your work to matter beyond a paper or a demo, this is the place.

The Role

This is not a role for running scans or writing policies that gather dust. We want someone who thinks like a builder and a breaker: someone who gets deep into the stack, understands how things are supposed to work, and knows what happens when they don't. Menlo does not have a dedicated security function yet. You will be the first. That means defining the unified security strategy across cloud and on-premise robot deployments, owning the threat surface, building the tooling, and setting the standards the rest of the team builds against. Full ownership, no inherited playbook.

What You'll Do

• Own the threat model across Menlo Platform: Robot API, Asimov API, Uranus, Cyclotron, and the deployment loop
• Develop and maintain a comprehensive security framework spanning Menlo Cloud and on-premise robot deployments at customer and operator sites
• Design and enforce RBAC and modern authentication protocols across the fleet and developer platform
• Implement end-to-end encryption for data at rest and in transit, covering robotic telemetry, sensor streams, and training data
• Establish secure and auditable remote access solutions for engineers troubleshooting robots in the field
• Define and enforce the trust model across Platform APIs, covering authentication, authorization, and agent identity
• Model attack surfaces in the agent-to-hardware translation layer, with focus on safety envelope bypass, rollback integrity, an...