Full-Time
Innovation Engineer
Updated on 9/4/2026
GuidePoint Security
1,001-5,000 employees
Cybersecurity consulting, software solutions, managed services
No salary listed
Remote in USA
Remote
U.S.-based remote role with up to 10% travel.
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- At least 5 years of experience in cloud engineering and/or solutions architecture with a significant focus on Amazon Web Services.
- Deep hands-on experience implementing, managing, and supporting artificial intelligence solutions using Amazon Web Services in an enterprise context.
- Strong understanding and practical experience with core Amazon Web Services services, including Identity and Access Management, DynamoDB, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, and CloudTrail.
- Experience designing and implementing secure, cloud-based artificial intelligence solutions on Amazon Web Services, including familiarity with AWS security services such as Guardrails, Key Management Service, and Secrets Manager.
- Enterprise-level experience with AI-focused Amazon Web Services services, including Bedrock, SageMaker, Transcribe, Rekognition, and Q Business.
- Experience collaborating with Information Technology Operations and Information Security teams on cloud deployments and security reviews.
- Proficiency in at least one relevant programming language, preferably Python.
- Understanding of generative artificial intelligence concepts, large language models, prompt engineering, and foundational artificial intelligence and machine learning principles.
- Ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues and develop creative solutions within policy boundaries.
- Strong written and oral communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience applying security principles to artificial intelligence implementations, including data protection, access controls, and threat modeling for artificial intelligence systems.
- Understanding of artificial intelligence-specific security challenges, including prompt injection, data poisoning, and model extraction attacks.
- Help design, build, deploy, and manage secure and scalable generative artificial intelligence solutions using software-as-a-service and local resources.
- Provide guidance, best practices, and support to internal teams using software-as-a-service artificial intelligence services to build custom applications.
- Design and assist with implementing secure data connectors and ingestion pipelines so enterprise artificial intelligence services can query internal organizational data sources such as knowledge bases and document repositories.
- Collaborate with Information Security and Information Technology teams to define security requirements, implement security controls, conduct security reviews, and ensure compliance for artificial intelligence deployments.
- Establish monitoring and alerting for applicable artificial intelligence solutions and help develop operational procedures for deployed artificial intelligence services.
- Optimize artificial intelligence solutions for performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.
- Act as a liaison between business stakeholders, technical teams, Information Technology operations, and Information Security regarding generative artificial intelligence initiatives.
- Keep current with software-as-a-service artificial intelligence and machine learning services, generative artificial intelligence trends, and cloud security best practices.
- Create and maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, and security guidelines.
- Contribute to the strategic artificial intelligence and machine learning roadmap.
- Assist with maintaining, developing, and presenting educational material to internal users about effective and safe artificial intelligence usage.
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner.
- AWS Certified AI Practitioner.
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect.
- AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer.
- Understanding or experience with model fine-tuning techniques.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, OpenTofu, or equivalent technologies.
- Familiarity with MLOps principles and practices.
- Experience integrating artificial intelligence services with enterprise applications and data warehouses.
- Experience designing and implementing agentic artificial intelligence architectures that autonomously perform complex workflows while maintaining security boundaries and human oversight.
- Familiarity with Model Context Protocol client/server architecture and its associated security risks.
GuidePoint Security helps organizations assess and reduce cybersecurity risk through a mix of security technologies, consulting, and managed security services for enterprise and government clients. It works by assessing a client’s security posture, recommending and deploying appropriate tools and controls, and continuously monitoring and managing security operations to detect and respond to threats. The company differentiates itself with deep industry knowledge and hands-on practitioner experience from the DoD, Intelligence Communities, and Fortune 500, enabling tailored solutions for complex, mission-critical needs instead of generic products. Its goal is to help clients make informed security decisions, lower risk exposure, and defend against evolving cyber threats using a combination of technology, expertise, and managed services.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
Growth Equity (Non-Venture Capital)
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
Reston, Virginia
Founded
2011
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- GuidePoint signed a 2026 GSA Government Solutions contract running through October 2030.
- The company reported three years of double-digit growth and opened three offices in 2025.
- Recent partnerships with Astelia, SOCRadar, Fable, and Geordie expand exposure management, intelligence, and AI-governance offerings.
What critics are saying
- Reseller partnerships with Astelia, SOCRadar, and Fable expose GuidePoint to vendor churn and margin compression.
- Scott Rachford’s July 2026 CEO handoff risks execution drift during continued expansion.
- Cybersecurity advisory is crowded; hyperscaler marketplaces and direct vendor sales can disintermediate GuidePoint by 2027.
What makes GuidePoint Security unique
- GuidePoint’s July 2026 CEO transition kept founder Michael Volk as Executive Chairman.
- Its GRIT research team publishes proprietary ransomware intelligence, including the April 2026 Q1 report.
- GuidePoint won CrowdStrike Americas Partner of the Year and SentinelOne Vision Partner of the Year in 2026.
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↑ 19%CrowdStrike names 2026 partner award winners at Fal.Con. Mark Bowen 3 September, 2026 NVIDIA, AWS, Accenture, Carahsoft, Kroll and Zscaler are among the companies recognised by CrowdStrike for their contribution to its global partner ecosystem. CrowdStrike has announced its 2026 partner award winners, recognising companies across its global channel ecosystem at Fal.Con 2026 in Las Vegas. NVIDIA was named Global Partner of the Year, while Accenture received the Global System Integrator of the Year award and Amazon Web Services (AWS) was recognised as Global AI Partner of the Year. Carahsoft was named Global Distribution Partner of the Year, with Ernst & Young LLP (EY US) taking Global Services Partner of the Year and GuidePoint Security receiving the Global Solution Provider of the Year award. Other winners included Ignition Technology as Global Technical Champion of the Year, Kroll as Global MSSP Partner of the Year and Sekuro as International Partner of the Year. SHI International was recognised as Global Flex Partner of the Year, while Zscaler received the Global Technology Alliance Partner of the Year award. CrowdStrike also introduced its Circle of Excellence awards, recognising partners that delivered net-new customer growth across its reseller and distribution ecosystem during the first half of 2026. The winners included Asper Tecnologia and Kroll as Partner MVPs, Carahsoft as Distributor Velocity Partner and GuidePoint Security as Global New Logo Growth Partner. CDW was named Regional New Logo Value Partner for the Americas, FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corporation received the equivalent award for JAPAC and Softcat was recognised for Europe. Otsuka Corporation was named International New Logo Growth Partner, while Gamma Ingenieros received the Breakthrough Emerging Partner award. "The Crowd is our advantage," said Daniel Bernard, Chief Business Officer at CrowdStrike. "Our customers are raising the bar for what's possible in cybersecurity, and our partners multiply that impact around the world. This year's winners show what happens when the world's leading organisations build, innovate, and win together on the most critical risk of today: securing AI." CrowdStrike also recognised five customers with its Customer Impact Awards. Anthropic, Mondelēz International, Providence Health & Services, Salesforce and United Airlines received awards covering leadership, community impact, transformation, Artificial Intelligence and platform adoption. Fal.Con 2026 attracted more than 10,000 attendees representing 4,000 organisations across 71 countries, alongside more than 150 partner sponsors.
Astelia now available Through GuidePoint Security. New collaboration gives GuidePoint customers access to Mythos-ready exposure management built on reachability analysis. September 02, 2026 09:00 ET | Source: Astelia NEW YORK, Sept. 02, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Astelia, the AI-native exposure management platform, today announced a new partnership with GuidePoint Security, the leading cybersecurity solution provider that helps organizations make better decisions that minimize risk. AI is changing the economics of vulnerability management. As frontier AI models compress the time it takes to turn a published CVE into a working exploit, the assumptions that let security teams deprioritize findings by severity no longer hold, and the volume of "critical" alerts keeps climbing. Through this partnership, GuidePoint customers can use Astelia to map their real network topology, analyze exploit requirements with agentic AI, and pinpoint the ~1% of vulnerabilities that are actually reachable and exploitable in their environment. Astelia then applies agentic remediation to those reachable vulnerabilities, giving teams evidence-based paths to fix what matters rather than another backlog to triage. "Everything about attacks is getting faster, and no team beats that by patching everything faster. Now that frontier AI models can turn a CVE into a working exploit in hours, severity scores say less and less about real risk, and no one is compressing a 30-day patch cycle across thousands of findings into an afternoon," said Alon Noy (Neuhaus), co-founder and CEO of Astelia. "Reachability analysis is how teams get their footing back. Only about 1% of what a scanner flags is genuinely reachable and exploitable once you account for the real network topology, and the fastest fix often isn't a patch at all but a configuration or segmentation change that cuts the attack path in minutes. We show enterprises the fraction an attacker can actually reach and let agentic remediation resolve it, so teams stop grading themselves on patch SLAs across the whole backlog and start measuring how fast they mitigate what matters." Through the partnership, GuidePoint customers can deploy Astelia on top of their existing scanners. Beyond those scanner findings, Astelia surfaces newly disclosed and zero-day vulnerabilities on its own. Using read-only integrations rather than endpoint agents or active scanning, Astelia maps network topology and correlates each vulnerability's exploit requirements, including network path, privileges, and dependencies, against how the environment is actually built. Once Astelia proves what is reachable, its agentic remediation goes to work on those vulnerabilities, generating and driving fixes that reach beyond patching to configuration changes, segmentation, and compensating controls, so security and IT can align on the fastest practical resolution. "Enterprises don't have a shortage of vulnerability data. They have a shortage of certainty about which findings actually put them at risk," said Mark Thornberry, SVP, Partnerships at GuidePoint. "That's exactly the kind of challenge we help our clients navigate, working alongside partners like Astelia to give security teams evidence-based clarity and a faster path to fixing what counts." "As AI accelerates both attacks and defenses, the winners will be the organizations that pair the right technology with the right partners. GuidePoint has built deep trust with security leaders, and combining that with Astelia's reachability-first approach is exactly the kind of collaboration this moment calls for," said Danielle Wilson, Senior Director of Channels at Astelia. The partnership builds on Astelia's continued momentum. The company recently raised $35 million and has signed multiple large enterprise customers, several of which have already renewed their contracts. About Astelia Astelia is an AI-native exposure management platform, built by former leaders of the Israeli National Red Team to help organizations focus only on the vulnerabilities that are reachable and exploitable in their environment. It maps real network topology and applies agentic AI to analyze what each exploit actually requires, identify the ~1% of findings that represent real exposure, and drive agentic remediation beyond patching. Media Contact: Deb Montner [email protected]
SOCRadar now offered through GuidePoint Security. * 4 hours ago New collaboration offers GuidePoint customers access to SOCRadar's award-winning Extended Threat Intelligence platform to help drive innovation and interoperability and improve cyber resilience NEWARK, Del. Aug. 24, 2026 - SOCRadar, a global leader in extended threat intelligence and cybersecurity, today announced a new reseller collaboration with GuidePoint Security, the leading cybersecurity solution provider that helps organizations make better decisions that minimize risk. The collaboration is designed to expand customer access to SOCRadar's award-winning Extended Threat Intelligence platform through GuidePoint's extensive network of enterprise and public sector customers. As organizations face increasingly sophisticated cyber threats, SOCRadar's comprehensive threat intelligence capabilities and intelligence-driven approach, combined with GuidePoint's proven advisory and integration expertise, enable customers to proactively identify, assess, and mitigate external risks before they impact business operations. "GuidePoint is one of the most trusted cybersecurity advisors in North America, making them an ideal company to collaborate with as we continue to expand our presence in the region," said Brian Costello, Vice President of Global Channel and Alliances at SOCRadar. "Together, we are delivering greater access to actionable threat intelligence and external risk management capabilities that can help organizations strengthen their security posture and stay ahead of emerging threats. This collaboration marks an important milestone in our commitment to empowering customers with the intelligence they need to make faster, more informed security decisions." "This partnership with SOCRadar reflects a shared commitment to helping organizations improve cyber resilience through innovative technology, expert guidance, and proactive risk management," said Mark Thornberry, SVP, Partnerships GuidePoint Security. "By combining SOCRadar's advanced threat intelligence platform with GuidePoint Security's customer-centric approach and technical expertise, organizations across North America will benefit from a more comprehensive and integrated approach to cybersecurity operations." About SOCRadar SOCRadar is the pioneer of Agentic Threat Intelligence serving organizations across more than 150 countries. The company's award-winning Agentic Threat Intelligence Platform delivers an industry-first early warning cyber risk detection and mitigation system to proactively identify and reduce external cyber threats before attackers can exploit them. The platform uniquely combines AI agents with one of the industry's most comprehensive cyber intelligence ecosystems to continuously discover, investigate, and prioritize risks across the internet, deep web, dark web, social media platforms, third-party ecosystems, and exposed digital assets. Integrating Brand Protection and Attack Surface Management (ASM) through its XTI platform, SOCRadar helps customers defend against external threats like phishing, brand impersonation and ransomware, as well as account takeover, exposed credentials, supply chain risks, and emerging attacker activity.
GuidePoint Security has been named to the 2026 Inc. 5000 list for the eleventh consecutive year, ranking No. 2,375. The annual list recognises America's fastest-growing private companies. The cybersecurity services firm has experienced strong growth in the past year, opening three new offices, including a global headquarters, and expanding its executive leadership team. The company has also introduced new capabilities across AI governance, risk management, cloud security, incident response and identity and access management. "This is a direct reflection of the exceptional team we've built and the continued trust our clients place in us," said Scott Rachford, chief executive officer of GuidePoint Security. More than 5,900 organisations rely on GuidePoint Security for cybersecurity services.
GuidePoint Security named to the Inc. 5000 list for the eleventh consecutive year. Cybersecurity solutions leader recognized as one of America's fastest-growing private companies in 2026. RESTON, Va. (August 11, 2026) - GuidePoint Security, the cybersecurity advisor and services partner organizations rely on to protect what matters most, today announced it has been named to the 2026 Inc. 5000, Inc.'s annual list of the fastest-growing private companies in America. The Inc. 5000 recognizes the nation's most successful independent and entrepreneurial businesses, honoring companies that have achieved remarkable growth while driving innovation, creating jobs and shaping the future of the economy. GuidePoint Security ranked No. 2,375 on this year's list, marking its eleventh consecutive year among the nation's fastest-growing private businesses. "Earning a place on the Inc. 5000 for 11 consecutive years is no easy feat. This is a direct reflection of the exceptional team we've built and the continued trust our clients place in us," said Scott Rachford, CEO of GuidePoint Security. "We have strong momentum, and remain focused on expanding our service offerings, investing in our people and delivering the expertise organizations need to reduce risk and operate with confidence." This year's Inc. 5000 recognizes a new class of companies redefining what growth looks like. Among the 5,000 companies on the list, the median three-year revenue growth rate was 130%, and those companies have collectively added more than 627,208 jobs to the U.S. economy over the past three years. "Every company on the Inc. 5000 has a story of perseverance, smart decision making, and a refusal to sit still," says Mike Hofman, editor-in-chief of Inc. "Their growth reflects more than strong financial performance-it reflects creativity, resilience, and the customer focus required to build companies that make a lasting impact. We congratulate all honorees on this significant achievement." This recognition follows a record-setting first half for GuidePoint Security. Over the past year, the company has opened three new offices, including a new global headquarters; expanded its executive leadership team; and introduced new capabilities across AI governance, risk management, cloud security, incident response and identity and access management - all while maintaining double-digit growth and industry-leading customer satisfaction and retention rates. For the full list, company profiles, and a searchable database by industry and location, visit: www.inc.com/inc5000. About Inc. Inc. is the leading media brand and playbook for the entrepreneurs and business leaders shaping its future. Through its journalism, Inc. aims to inform, educate, and elevate the profile of its community: the risk-takers, the innovators, and the ultra-driven go-getters who are creating the future of business. Inc. is published by Mansueto Ventures LLC, along with fellow leading business publication Fast Company. For more information, visit www.inc.com. GuidePoint Security