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Physical Security Lead, Manufacturing Operations

Cerebras· IT & Security
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Hybrid (Sunnyvale, CA)Full-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Experienced Physical Security Lead responsible for establishing and governing physical security across current and future contract manufacturing locations. This is a hands-on individual-contributor role with functional leadership, reporting to the Director, Global Physical Security, based in the San Francisco Bay area, and requiring regular site visits and incident-based response.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the primary Global Physical Security partner for current and future contract manufacturing locations; develop and govern minimum standards, site requirements, exceptions, and risk acceptance.
  • Conduct initial, recurring, and event-driven site assessments; prioritize findings, establish corrective actions, and verify closure.
  • Design and govern sensitive-area entry controls, including clean-in/clean-out (CICO), personal property and data bearing device (DBD) restrictions, visitor and contractor access, escorting, and exceptions, while aligning with cleanroom, ESD, life-safety, and production requirements.
  • Protect intellectual property, proprietary processes, prototypes, components, test equipment, finished products, and controlled materials through security zoning, access governance, visitor controls, and photography restrictions.
  • Act as the client security representative for partner-managed guard services; where Cerebras contracts directly, manage scope, post orders, training, service levels, performance metrics, and corrective actions.
  • Collaborate on Cerebras-managed access control, video surveillance, intrusion detection, visitor management, and alarm-monitoring systems, including design reviews, commissioning, and operational validation.
  • In partnership with internal stakeholders, define physical security requirements for new manufacturing partners, production lines, facility expansions, contracts, and statements of work.
  • Govern cargo and logistics security requirements, including chain of custody, secure staging, shipping and receiving, high-risk shipments, carrier handoffs, and third-party performance.
  • Respond to manufacturing-related security incidents, preserve relevant evidence, coordinate fact-finding, identify root causes, and track corrective actions.
  • Maintain regular site presence, security metrics, risk reporting, procedures, training, and concise updates for security and business leadership.

Qualifications

  • Five or more years of progressively responsible physical security experience directly supporting manufacturing, industrial, semiconductor, electronics, computing hardware, or a comparable operational environment.
  • Demonstrated experience implementing security controls in active manufacturing operations while balancing production, safety, quality, cleanroom or ESD requirements, and continuity.
  • Experience supporting contract manufacturers, suppliers, or partner-operated facilities through standards, assessments, governance, and stakeholder influence.
  • Experience protecting intellectual property, proprietary processes, prototypes, high-value components, products, or sensitive technical information, including CICO or comparable sensitive-area entry controls.
  • Working knowledge of access control, video surveillance, intrusion detection, visitor management, alarm monitoring, and contract security service oversight.
  • Familiarity with cargo security, chain-of-custody controls, secure shipping and receiving, logistics-provider governance, and manufacturing incident response.
  • Strong risk-assessment, project-management, written-communication, analytical, and stakeholder-influence skills.

Skills

Required:Physical security management
Last updated Sep 6, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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