Security Jobs in United States
There are 35,911 open Security jobs in United States on freehire right now. 7,937 of them were posted recently. The skills employers ask for most often are cloud, cybersecurity and ai.
Salary
| Currency | Period | 25th | Median | 75th | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| USD | year | $138,600 | $170,000 | $205,000 | 2,589 |
| USD | hour | $19 | $24 | $36 | 216 |
From postings that disclose pay. Currencies are counted separately, never converted.
Most requested skills
- cloud 22%
- cybersecurity 22%
- ai 15%
- automation 12%
- typescript 11%
- aws 10%
- python 9%
- azure 8%
How the work is done
- Onsite 2,535 · 7%
- Remote 2,264 · 6%
- Hybrid 1,998 · 6%
Visa sponsorship offered in 24% of the 4,094 postings that state a position on it.
Seniority
- Senior 6,089
- Lead 1,830
- Principal 918
- Middle 764
- Junior 644
- Staff 600
Who is hiring
- 1000+ employees 5,544
- 501-1000 employees 1,654
- 51-200 employees 428
- 11-50 employees 268
- 201-500 employees 64
- 1-10 employees 54
Physical Security Project Manager
Manages physical security projects for Vultr’s global data centers, coordinating schedules, vendors, inspections, and documentation across builds/upgrades while ensuring compliance with security standards.
Anthropic Fellows Program, AI Safety & Security
4-month research fellowship building AI safety/security projects with public outputs, mentored by Anthropic researchers using open-source tools and compute budgets.
Information Systems Security Officer Level 1
Protects classified intelligence systems by enforcing security policies, maintaining compliance with NIST RMF, and assisting with certification and accreditation for a government contractor in Fort Meade, MD.
Information Systems Security Engineer Level 1
Designs and secures high-performance computing environments for intelligence missions, ensuring compliance with DoD security standards and mitigating vulnerabilities in systems running Red Hat, CentOS, and SUSE.
Director of Information Security
Leads Fetch’s end-to-end security program: AppSec, incident response, compliance, and AI governance while building a scalable, auditable security framework and managing a security engineering team.
Information System Security Officer
Information System Security Officer supporting cybersecurity compliance for a cloud-hosted federal enterprise digital services platform—monitoring security controls, maintaining documentation, conducting assessments, and collaborating with engineering teams.
Junior Cyber Security Analyst (R-00168)
Support system security assessments of cloud-based, NIST-regulated systems for U.S. Federal Government clients—writing security documentation, tracking remediation, and coordinating security activities within release/change management processes.
Cybersecurity Engineer
Cybersecurity Engineer implementing technical security controls for a cloud-hosted enterprise digital services platform, supporting vulnerability management, incident response, and DevSecOps integration for a military and family support services contractor.
Cybersecurity Research Assistant
Remote Cybersecurity Research Assistant implementing and monitoring security controls across on-premises Kubernetes clusters and HPC infrastructure for NIH rare disease research, using Linux, Python, Bash, Ansible, and Git.
Senior Security Engineer, Digital Forensics
Investigate security incidents and perform digital forensics to protect Google’s systems and data, using tools like GRR, Plaso, and Volatility.
Cybersecurity AI Developer-Senior
Senior developer building AI-enabled cybersecurity software for national security missions, primarily using Python with LLMs and data analytics, working directly with mission operators to prototype and deploy solutions.
Senior Security Researcher
Perform vulnerability research, reverse engineering, and exploit development on multiple system types using tools like Ghidra, IDA, and fuzzers for national security and defense customers.
Cybersecurity Engineer
Mid-level Cybersecurity Engineer securing the end-to-end Mainstay maritime autonomy platform — from onboard Linux/containers on unmanned surface vessels to ground control, communications, and cloud infrastructure.