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Lead GRC Engineer

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Lead GRC Engineer in USA

  • Higgsfield
  • Full time
  • Email
  • San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities

  • Translate security, privacy, and compliance requirements into technical controls, automated checks, and enforcement mechanisms.
  • Build pipelines and integrations that aggregate control, asset, identity, and system data across infrastructure and business systems.
  • Create automated control checks, live monitoring, dashboards, alerts, preventative controls, and production release gates.
  • Automate evidence collection, control testing, monitoring, exception management, and cross-framework evidence mapping.
  • Continuously test control effectiveness and detect control regression or drift.
  • Instrument live risk-posture data for security and GRC stakeholders.
  • Design AI-assisted and agentic workflows for evidence analysis, control testing, monitoring, and audit-response preparation.
  • Help establish the technical evidence base for AI-related certifications and assurance.
  • Partner with Security, Engineering, Privacy, Legal, Product, and other teams.

Requirements

  • At least 6 years spanning security, GRC, software engineering, automation engineering, or related technical roles.
  • Experience translating framework, regulatory, or policy requirements into technical implementations.
  • Hands-on experience building or automating security and compliance controls.
  • Production-grade scripting or programming experience, such as Python, including API and integration work.
  • Strong understanding of SOC 2, ISO 27001, and credible control evidence.
  • Ability to assess whether controls are effective, enforced, and continuously monitored.
  • Experience building in rapidly changing or 0-to-1 environments.
  • Strong judgment regarding automation, risk, exceptions, enforcement, and engineering velocity.
  • Ability to communicate technical controls and evidence to auditors, customer security teams, engineers, and nontechnical stakeholders.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $220,000-$280,000 depending on experience, skills, scope, and location.
  • Bonus eligibility through the company’s discretionary annual bonus program.
  • Stock option program and potential participation in the company’s long-term growth.
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Competitive 401(k) retirement plan with company matching and additional benefits and perks.
  • Professional growth, significant ownership, and direct impact at a rapidly scaling AI company.
  • Hybrid work arrangement in the San Francisco Bay Area with three full days per week in the San Francisco office and remaining days remote.
  • Expected availability during agreed working hours and sufficient overlap with the relevant team’s time zone.

Salary: $220k - $280k/yr

Higgsfield

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