Director of Software Engineering | Sovereign AI Security - Dubai/Bangalore
About the company Our client is a high-growth, venture-backed cybersecurity pioneer that builds sovereign AI platforms and hardware appliances to protect global critical infrastructure and operational technology (OT) environments.
Location: Dubai/ Bangalore | remote role Leadership Level: VP/ Director, Founding-level Engineering Leader Reporting to: Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Compensation: Competitive Base + Equity
The Opportunity We are seeking an engineering leader to take over the entire engineering organization. In this founding-level role, you will own architecture, delivery, quality, and team scaling end-to-end.
What You Will Own Own the technical direction across the AI platform and physical appliance lines. Establish rigorous release cadences, robust versioning, and pristine UAT/production environment separations. Oversee the data path for passive monitoring, industrial protocol decoding (e.g., Modbus, S7Comm, IEC 60870-5-104), and MITRE ATT&CK mapping. Drive appliance hardening, TPM-based device identity, full-disk encryption, and compliance acceleration tooling across frameworks like IEC 62443 and ISO 27001. Lead, and rapidly scale a high-performing, distributed global engineering team.
What We Are Looking For10–15+ Years of Engineering Excellence: A proven track record of leadership where you have owned delivery and organizational growth, not just architecture. Strong roots in OT/ICS security OR a heavy enterprise detection/security background (e.g., Crowd Strike, Palo Alto, Sentinel One) with a strong command of industrial protocols. Thrives in a lean, fast-paced environment where your impact is direct and your mandate is broad.
Strong Pluses Applied AI or on-device, resource-constrained GPU inference experience. A background in SIEM, detection engineering, or SOC tooling. Familiarity with sovereign deployment requirements or critical infrastructure environments.
How to Apply If you are ready to own a mission-critical engineering function protecting the world's most vital infrastructure, we want to hear from you.