# Governance, Risk and Compliance Lead

**Company:** [Thinking Machines Lab](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/thinking-machines-lab)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Other
**Salary:** $225k – $350k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** GRC, SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, GDPR, eu ai act, Risk Assessment, audit management, control documentation, compliance automation, Cybersecurity, AI Agents
**Posted:** 2026-07-30

> Lead end-to-end certifications (SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP) and day-to-day GRC processes for an AI company. Drive compliance roadmap, manage audits/risk, answer technical questions from engineering teams, and build automation/tools while growing the function.

## Job Description

## What You'll Do

- Own our certification roadmap end to end: scope each certification, build the control set, collect and organize evidence, and represent TML directly to auditors through to close.
- Manage recurring compliance processes on a set cadence: control testing, audit prep and response, risk register maintenance, and policy attestations.
- Answer compliance and risk questions from engineering, security, and product teams directly, by building enough technical fluency across our infrastructure, model deployment, and data handling to do so without escalating every question.
- Track regulatory and framework requirements relevant to an AI company (GDPR, EU AI Act, and similar) and translate them into specific, actionable controls.
- Identify gaps in current compliance coverage as the company adds new products, infrastructure, or jurisdictions, and propose what needs to change before it becomes a blocker.
- Build and maintain the tooling and documentation that make the next audit cycle faster than the last one.
- Plan a multi-quarter roadmap for the GRC function itself, while continuing to personally run the certifications and audits already on the books.

## Skills and Qualifications

**Minimum qualifications:**

- 7+ years related experience across technology and cybersecurity Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC), with demonstrated breadth across all three disciplines.
- Experience leading a SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP or comparable certification from scoping through audit close.
- Hands-on experience collecting audit evidence and writing control documentation.
- Experience managing a recurring compliance process, such as control testing, risk register maintenance, or policy attestations.
- Experience learning new technical domains quickly and translating them for non-technical stakeholders.

**Preferred qualifications:**

- Background as a software engineer or in a technical engineering role, now applied to GRC, evidenced by scripts, tools, or automations you've personally built for evidence collection, control testing, or audit workflows.
- Experience translating complex compliance requirements into scalable automation using AI agents and custom built tooling.
- Experience growing a GRC function's capability (new certifications, tooling, or processes) as a company scaled.

## You'll Thrive in This Role if

- You want to run the certification yourself, end to end.
- You're the one in the room with the auditor, walking through evidence.
- You can hold this week's deadlines and next year's roadmap at the same time.

## Logistics

**Compensation:** Depending on background, skills and experience, the expected annual salary range for this position is $225,000 - $350,000.

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