Compliance Engineer

About the role

The Compliance Engineer will serve as the first-line compliance owner for AI outputs and client deliverables. This role involves translating complex regulatory frameworks into actionable guidance and collaborating with engineering teams to develop reusable compliance workflows and knowledge assets.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and decompose regulatory frameworks and licensing requirements.
• Support licensing and regulatory-readiness projects, including scoping, applicability analysis, gap assessment, evidence requests, policy review, application preparation, and remediation tracking.
• Conduct first-line review of AI outputs for regulatory accuracy, evidence support, source traceability, and client suitability.
• Convert unstructured requests into clear scopes and deliverables, including compliance analyses, and review reports.
• Support compliance guidance, evidence checklists, submission-material mapping, and licensing deliverables.
• Work as/with Engineering to build regulatory mappings, templates, review rules, evaluation cases, and structured AI workflows.
• Escalate high-risk regulatory interpretations and final legal or compliance conclusions to senior reviewers or Legal.

Required skills

• Regulatory analysis
• Evidence review
• Licensing documentation
• Project management
• LLM limitations
• Human-in-the-loop review

Nice to have

• Digital-asset regulation
• VASP licensing
• Chinese proficiency

Qualifications

• 3 or more years of experience in compliance, regulatory consulting, digital assets, fintech, financial services, compliance audit, or a law firm
• Hands-on experience with at least 1 licensing application, regulatory registration, or end-to-end regulatory-readiness project

About the Company

CertiK is a leading Web3 security company focused on securing blockchain protocols, smart contracts, and decentralized applications through cutting-edge security research, formal verification, and AI-powered technology. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in New York City, the company provides end-to-end security solutions for thousands of enterprise clients and Web3 projects globally.