Detection Engineering Manager

3M • Austin, TX

2d • Onsite

About The Position

Detection Engineering Manager Collaborate with Innovative 3Mers Around the World Choosing where to start and grow your career has a major impact on your professional and personal life, so it’s equally important you know that the company that you choose to work at, and its leaders, will support and guide you. With a wide variety of people, global locations, technologies and products, 3M is a place where you can collaborate with other curious, creative 3Mers. This position provides an opportunity to transition from other private, public, government or military experience to a 3M career. The Impact You Will Make in this Role: The Detection Engineering Manager is a hands-on, player/coach leader who builds and scales high-fidelity threat detections across enterprise and manufacturing/OT environments. This role is pivotal to reducing attacker dwell time and improving security outcomes by increasing detection coverage, improving signal quality, and enabling faster, more consistent investigations and containment. You will set direction, develop talent, and partner closely with SOC, IR, Threat Intelligence, IT, and OT, while still doing meaningful technical work yourself. The ideal candidate blends deep detection engineering expertise with strong leadership, curiosity, and a drive to continuously raise the bar. If you love solving hard detection problems, turning adversary behavior into actionable analytics, and building a high-performing engineering culture, this role gives you the runway to make a measurable impact. Why this Role is different: You’ll build: this role expects real technical ownership, not just delegation. You’ll lead: you’ll guide a team and set standards that scale. You’ll influence: your work directly improves investigation speed, signal quality, and operational outcomes across enterprise and manufacturing.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (completed and verified prior to start) from an accredited university.
• 7+ years of experience in cybersecurity, with at least 3 years in a technical lead or leadership capacity focused on detection engineering, threat detection, or SOC engineering.
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams while remaining hands-on in technical delivery (player/coach model).

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree preferred.
• Hands-on experience with SIEM platforms (e.g., Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, Google Sec Ops) and EDR solutions (e.g., CrowdStrike, Defender for Endpoint).
• Proficiency in detection/query languages and formats (e.g., KQL, SPL, Sigma) and scripting/automation to accelerate detection engineering workflows.
• Proven experience building mature detection lifecycle practices (testing, tuning, monitoring, regression checks, controlled releases).
• Strong knowledge of adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures; ability to map detections to ATT&CK and demonstrate measurable coverage improvements.
• Experience operationalizing threat intelligence into detection priorities and outcomes for advanced threats.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills; comfortable balancing precision, scale, and operational usability.
• Ability to present technical concepts to non-technical audiences and influence cross-functional partners.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, and advise team members across cultural and generational boundaries.
• Passion for automation, continuous improvement, and building durable engineering systems that scale.

Responsibilities

• Manage and mentor a team of detection engineers, building a culture of engineering rigor, innovation, and accountability.
• Operate as a hands-on manager: personally own and deliver key detections and technical initiatives while leading team outcomes.
• Define and execute detection engineering strategy aligned with business risk, operational priorities, and organizational goals.
• Own the detection engineering operating rhythm: intake, backlog prioritization, delivery planning, peer review, and continuous improvement.
• Establish quality standards (testing, documentation, validation evidence, monitoring) and ensure detections are production-ready before release.
• Lead initiatives to automate detection engineering workflows (content-as-code, validation pipelines, regression checks) to improve speed and consistency.
• Oversee the lifecycle of detection engineering work, including prioritization, resource allocation, delivery tracking, and performance management.
• Design, develop, and optimize detection logic, signatures, and analytics across SIEM, EDR, and cloud-native platforms.
• Personally own a portfolio of high-impact detections (complex use cases, top risks, hardest-to-detect behaviors) and mentor the team on broader coverage.
• Translate adversary behaviors into actionable detections using frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK and kill-chain models; measure and expand coverage over time.
• Conduct detection gap analysis and threat modeling to prioritize improvements based on exposure, telemetry readiness, and business impact.
• Build and maintain strong validation practices: testing, replay/verification, tuning, regression checks, and performance monitoring.
• Integrate threat intelligence into detection priorities and workflows to keep detections aligned to the evolving threat landscape.
• Ensure detections are operationally useful: strong context and enrichment, clear severity guidance, and defined next steps for responders.
• Stay current with emerging threats, tools, and techniques; rapidly adapt detections to changing adversary tradecraft.
• Partner with SOC, Incident Response, and Threat Intelligence to align detections to investigation workflows, escalation criteria, and containment actions.
• Collaborate with IT, OT/manufacturing stakeholders, and service providers to ensure visibility, logging coverage, and end-to-end detection effectiveness.
• Communicate detection strategy, risk coverage, and outcomes clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including executive leadership.
• Ensure detection engineering practices support compliance with internal policies and applicable external regulatory requirements.
• Maintain audit-ready documentation and evidence (rationale, test results, change history, ownership, and monitoring insights).

Benefits

• 3M offers many programs to help you live your best life – both physically and financially.
• To ensure competitive pay and benefits, 3M regularly benchmarks with other companies that are comparable in size and scope.
• Medical, Dental & Vision, Health Savings Accounts, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, Disability Benefits, Life Insurance, Voluntary Benefits, Paid Absences and Retirement Benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager