GRC Engineer

Sierra Ventures; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Health & wellness

Meals provided in office

Parental leave

Unlimited PTO

Visa sponsorship

Job summary

Reflection AI in San Francisco seeks a Governance, Risk, & Compliance engineer to translate policy into scalable technical controls across SOC 2, ISO 27001, and NIST. You’ll build automated evidence collection, manage data lineage, and support vendor assessments.

Work with Engineering, Security, and IT to implement requirements, maintain GRC integrations like Vanta, and drive regulatory compliance as a product. Join a team shaping responsible AI governance.

Qualifications

• 3–6 years of software or security engineering experience.
• Experience implementing security frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001, or NIST.
• Ability to translate policy into technical requirements.
• Collaborate with compliance, legal, and engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and build automated controls and monitoring for security frameworks.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Security, and IT to implement requirements.
• Build tooling for compliance workflows and integrations (Vanta, etc.).
• Translate regulatory requirements into concrete technical specs.
• Support due diligence for customer security questionnaires and audits.
• Maintain integrations between GRC systems and source-of-truth systems.
• Help scope environment separations for regulatory compliance.

Skills

Python

APIs & Integrations

Automation tooling

GRC tooling

Security framework experience

Collaboration

Data governance knowledge

ML/AI data lineage

Tools

Vanta

Cloud platforms

IAM concepts

GRC dashboards

Job description

Our Mission

Reflection is a research lab making intelligence open and accessible for everyone to use, customize, and build on. We build open models that let anyone control their intelligence and help shape the future of AI. Our mission: make intelligence open and accessible to all.

Role summary

Reflection AI's Compliance and AI Governance function spans six pillars: AI Governance, Data Governance, Trade Compliance, Privacy Operationalization, Government Contracting Compliance, and Corporate Compliance. The team builds the policies, controls, and operating rhythms that let the company move fast while staying defensible with regulators, customers, and partners. This role sits at the intersection of compliance and engineering, partnering most closely on technical controls required by Security frameworks, AI Governance frameworks, Privacy, and Data Governance pillars to translate policy requirements into technical controls that scale.

We're looking for a Governance, Risk, & Compliance engineer who wants to work on compliance as a product problem rather than a paperwork problem. You'll build and maintain the technical infrastructure (tooling, pipelines, automated controls, evidence collection) that lets the compliance program operate at engineering scale instead of through manual review. A core part of the job is keeping our security framework compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST) running on automated evidence rather than manual screenshotting, and building out the technical side of our Trade Compliance, Privacy, Data Governance, and TPRM program. You'll be the technical translator between compliance requirements and the engineering and security teams that have to implement them.

What You'll Do

• Design and build automated controls and monitoring that satisfy security framework requirements (SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST 800-53/800-171, CMMC): access reviews, data minimization, model/data lineage, continuous evidence collection
• Partner with Engineering, Security, and IT to implement technical requirements arising from security frameworks, deemed export controls, and privacy regulations
• Build and maintain internal tooling that supports compliance workflows (intake forms, screening checks, reporting dashboards, GRC platform integrations such as Vanta)
• Translate regulatory and policy requirements into concrete technical specifications engineering teams can implement
• Support technical due diligence for inbound customer security questionnaires, audits, and outbound vendor assessments
• Maintain integrations between compliance/GRC systems and source‑of‑truth systems (identity, data infrastructure, model pipelines)
• Help scope and support technical environment separations or system boundaries required for regulatory compliance (e.g., subsidiary or enclave environments)

What We're Looking For

• 3-6 years of software engineering, security engineering, or DevOps/infrastructure experience
• Hands‑on experience supporting at least one security framework (SOC 2, ISO 27001, or NIST) as an engineer, not just as a subject
• Comfortable writing production‑quality code (Python, or similar) and working with APIs/integrations
• Experience translating non‑technical requirements (policy, regulatory, contractual) into technical implementation
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and identity/access management concepts
• Strong collaboration skills; able to work effectively with compliance, legal, and engineering stakeholders who don’t share a common vocabulary
• Experience building or maintaining GRC tooling, TPRM/vendor risk platforms, or compliance automation (e.g., Vanta or similar)
• Familiarity with one or more relevant frameworks: CMMC, NIST 800‑171/800‑53, SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR/CCPA technical requirements
• Experience with data governance or data lineage tooling, especially in ML/AI pipelines
• Background supporting a government contracting or regulated environment

What We Offer:

We believe that to make intelligence open and accessible to all, you need to start at the foundation. Joining Reflection means building from the ground up as part of a talent‑dense team. You will help define our future as a company, and help define the future of open foundational models.

We want you to do the most impactful work of your career with the confidence that you and the people you care about most are supported.

• Top-tier compensation: Salary and equity structured to recognize and retain our talent globally.
• Stock options: Everyone who joins and contributes to Reflection's success gets to share in the upside through stock options.
• Health & wellness: Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and life, with an annual wellness allowance.
• Meals: Lunch and dinner are provided in the office daily.
• Life & family: 22 weeks paid parental leave for all new birthing and non‑birthing parents, including adoptive and surrogate journeys.
• Vacation days: Unlimited paid time off in the U.S. and 30 days in the U.K.
• Sponsorship support: We sponsor visas to help exceptional talent join our team and support long‑term immigration pathways where applicable.
• Team building: We have regular off‑sites, happy hours, and team celebrations.

Export Control Notice: This position may require access to technology or source code subject to the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Any offer of employment for this role may be conditioned on the Company's ability to provide the candidate with access to such technology or source code in compliance with applicable U.S. export control laws, which may require the Company to seek government authorization.

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