Physical Security Lead, Manufacturing Operations

Cerebras
Sunnyvale
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Manufacturing & Production OperationsExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Risk assessment","Project management","Written communication","Analytical thinking","Stakeholder influence"]

Establish and govern physical security standards across Cerebras’ current and future contract manufacturing locations. Partner with stakeholders to assess site risks, implement sensitive-area access controls (including CICO and visitor/contractor restrictions), protect intellectual property, and oversee contract security services. Own cargo and logistics security requirements, collaborate on access control/video/intrusion systems, and respond to security incidents with evidence preservation, root-cause analysis, and corrective-action tracking.

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Physical Security Lead, Manufacturing Operations

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Job Summary

Establish and govern physical security standards across Cerebras’ current and future contract manufacturing locations. Partner with stakeholders to assess site risks, implement sensitive-area access controls (including CICO and visitor/contractor restrictions), protect intellectual property, and oversee contract security services. Own cargo and logistics security requirements, collaborate on access control/video/intrusion systems, and respond to security incidents with evidence preservation, root-cause analysis, and corrective-action tracking.
Location: Sunnyvale
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Manufacturing & Production Operations
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Serve as the primary Global Physical Security partner for current and future contract manufacturing locations, developing and governing minimum standards and risk acceptance.
  • •Conduct initial, recurring, and event-driven site assessments, prioritizing findings and driving corrective actions to verified closure.
  • •Design and govern sensitive-area entry controls (including CICO, restrictions for personal property/DBDs, visitor and contractor access, escorting, and exceptions) aligned with cleanroom/ESD/life-safety/production needs.
  • •Protect intellectual property and controlled materials through security zoning, access governance, visitor controls, and photography restrictions.
  • •Act as client security representative for partner-managed guard services and manage scope, post orders, training, service levels, performance metrics, and incident-based response coordination.
Travel: High travel

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years of physical security experience supporting manufacturing/industrial environments such as semiconductor, electronics, or computing hardware.
  • •Implement security controls in active manufacturing operations while balancing production, safety, quality, cleanroom/ESD, and continuity.
  • •Experience supporting contract manufacturers, suppliers, or partner-operated facilities through standards, assessments, governance, and stakeholder influence.
  • •Experience protecting intellectual property and sensitive materials using sensitive-area entry controls such as clean-in/clean-out (CICO).
  • •Working knowledge of access control, video surveillance, intrusion detection, visitor management, alarm monitoring, and contract security oversight.
Experience:5+ yearsSemiconductorManufacturingIndustrialElectronicsComputing hardwareContract manufacturing
Skills:Risk assessmentProject managementWritten communicationAnalytical thinkingStakeholder influence
Certifications:ASIS CPPASIS PSPPCI
Tech Stack:GenetecAccess controlVideo surveillanceIntrusion detectionVisitor managementAlarm monitoringSecurity technologyESD

Company Brief

Cerebras
Designs and builds wafer-scale AI accelerators and systems for large-scale deep learning workloads, delivering specialized hardware and software to accelerate model training and inference for enterprises and research institutions.
Industry: Hardware Devices
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Headquarters: Sunnyvale, United States
Founded: 2016
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