Sr. Security Engineer - GRC Frameworks & AI Governance
- Location
- Palo Alto, CA; New York, NY; Washington, DC
- Salary range
- USD $152,000 – $258,000 base
- Workplace
- In office
- Level
- Senior / Staff IC
- Job family
- AI Safety
- Posted
- 9 months ago
The T&S Network estimates this role to be P3, Senior. The typical base salary for that level in Safety Engineering & Data Science is $240k to $340k at a frontier lab. Key skills at this level: owns a detection system end to end, including its drift and its retraining, designs for adversarial pressure rather than for a static distribution, and sets evaluation methodology others in the company adopt.
Why this level
Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: the title reads as P3 · asks for 10+ years · posts $152k to $258k base at a frontier lab · sets strategy beyond one team.
The role, in T&S terms
Written by the T&S Network from SpaceXAI's posting.
GRC engineering for security and AI governance compliance at a company building AI models and products. The role owns the compliance posture as the organization grows, setting the standards teams build to and automating control validation and evidence so engineering can ship without losing audit readiness.
What you'd do
- Build policy-as-code, automated control validation, and continuous evidence pipelines wired into development and deployment workflows.
- Operate and extend GRC platforms such as Vanta as the system of record for controls and evidence, integrating them with cloud, identity, and engineering tools.
- Embed compliance requirements into design reviews and translate framework obligations into technical control narratives for auditors.
- Identify and prioritize AI/ML, cybersecurity, privacy, IP, and cloud risks, and lead risk reviews for new models, products, and features.
- Manage relationships with external auditors, assessors, and regulators, acting as the bridge to internal teams.
What it asks for
- 8+ years in GRC, security compliance, or technology audit with hands-on GRC engineering work.
- Experience running security compliance frameworks in AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Experience with Compliance-as-Code and GRC automation tools such as Vanta or Drata.
- 10+ years of security compliance or GRC engineering experience (preferred).
- Hands-on technical controls work in IAM, logging, encryption, and CI/CD compliance checks (preferred).
Worth knowing
- Role requires U.S. citizenship, green card, refugee, or asylee status, or eligibility for State Department authorization under ITAR.
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Social platforms · AI and model safety · 1,001 to 5,000 people · Founded 2023
Runs X and builds the Grok models, after SpaceX acquired xAI in 2026.
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