AI Compliance Engineer (Responsible AI)

SnowHeap LLC; Sharjah; On-site; AED 240,000 - 420,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first

Competitive pay

Career growth

Ownership of governance function

Job summary

SnowHeap LLC, a UAE-based AI consultancy, seeks an AI Compliance Engineer to own model governance safety and evaluations across our stack. The role focuses on designing auditable controls from policy to dashboard, in a remote setup with UAE alignment.

Contract is a 6-month temporary engagement with potential extension. The candidate must coordinate with Security/Privacy teams and lead red-teaming, DPIAs, and vendor risk management while delivering concrete compliance outcomes.

Qualifications

• 4 years in Security/Privacy/Compliance ML governance or safety engineering with 2 years on LLM products.
• Strong grasp of LLM stacks: OpenAI & Azure OpenAI Claude Agno CrewAI LangChain/LangGraph/LangSmith.
• Hands-on model evaluation: building test sets rubric-based scoring offline/online evals and statistical analysis.

Responsibilities

• Define and run SnowHeap's AI governance program: policies, control library, risk register, exception handling and sign-offs from ideation to production.
• Map laws and frameworks to concrete technical controls in our products and client projects.
• Build an evaluation harness for LLMs/agents: golden sets, scenario tests, adversarial probes, offline evals and online A/Bs.

Skills

Security governance

Privacy compliance

LLM safety

Model evaluation

Context engineering

Python

Cloud/MLOps

Stakeholder communication

Tools

OpenAI/Azure OpenAI

LangChain/LangGraph/LangSmith

Job description

SnowHeap is a UAE-based AI consultancy. We ship production LLM systems for regulated industries across MENA/EU/US and need an AI Compliance Engineer to own model governance safety and evaluations across our stack (OpenAI Claude Agno CrewAI LangChain/LangGraph/LangSmith).

Youll design controls that let us move fast and stay auditable: policy to pipeline document to dashboard. Location: Remote (MENA/EU time zones) with optional Dubai meetups.

Contract Type: 6-month temporary contract (with potential extension based on project needs and performance).
Location: Remote (MENA/EU time zones). Candidates must be able to align at least 80% of their working hours with UAE time (depending on their location). Optional Dubai meetups.

Please note: We are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this role at this time.

Tasks

• Define and run SnowHeaps AI governance program: policies control library risk register exception handling and sign-offs (from ideation to production).
• Map laws and frameworks (EU AI Act GDPR/PDPL/DIFC DPL NIST AI RMF ISO/IEC 42001 & 27001 SOC 2) to concrete technical controls in our products and client projects.
• Build an evaluation harness for LLMs/agents: golden sets scenario tests adversarial probes offline evals and online A/Bs; track hallucination safety bias privacy leakage robustness cost and latency.
• Implement guardrails (PII detection jailbreak/prompt-injection defenses output filters content safety) and wire them into pipelines (LangChain/LangGraph CrewAI/Agno).
• Stand up audit-ready telemetry: data lineage prompt/response logging with redaction model cards decision traces and approval workflows (LangSmith/observability tools).
• Partner with Security/Privacy on DPIAs/TRA retention DLP key management access controls and vendor risk (OpenAI/Anthropic terms Azure/GCP/AWS).
• Lead red-teaming exercises; coordinate incident response playbooks for model failures and safety regressions.
• Review prompts fine-tunes and datasets for policy compliance; curate evaluation datasets and go/no-go acceptance criteria.
• Coach engineers sales and clients; write crisp docs and checklists; run internal trainings and readiness reviews.
• Contribute to proposals and client audits; turn compliance into a product advantage.

Requirements

• 4 years in Security/Privacy/Compliance ML governance or safety engineering with 2 years on LLM products.
• Strong grasp of LLM stacks: OpenAI & Azure OpenAI Claude Agno CrewAI LangChain/LangGraph/LangSmith.
• Hands-on model evaluation: building test sets rubric-based scoring offline/online evals statistical analysis; familiarity with tools or libraries for evals/observability.
• Working knowledge of privacy & AI risk (GDPR/PDPL/DIFC DPL EU AI Act concepts NIST AI RMF) and how to turn them into safeguards SOPs and controls.
• Context engineering expertise: ability to design test and audit prompt chains context windows and memory architectures for compliance safety and explainability.
• Solid scripting in Python/Pydantic (TypeScript nice to have); able to review PRs and add compliance checks to CI/CD.
• Cloud/MLOps fluency: one of AWS/GCP/Azure; containers secrets monitoring access controls.
• Excellent writing and stakeholder skills; can say no with rationale and ship a safer yes.

Nice-to-haves

• ISO 27001/ISO 42001/SOC 2 implementation or audit experience.
• Prior red-teaming of LLMs (prompt-injection data exfiltration harmful content).
• Experience in regulated domains (financial services healthcare public sector).
• Arabic or UAE market experience.

Benefits

• High-ownership role shaping SnowHeaps AI governance and product roadmap.
• Remote-first across MENA/EU time zones; flexible hours.
• Competitive compensation with performance bonus.
• Fast career growth build the function and lead it.

If youve shipped real LLM systems and can turn regulation into running code and measurable quality we want to talk.

SnowHeap is an equal-opportunity employer. We value diverse perspectives and hire for talent integrity and impact.