OKX

Principal / Staff Engineer - Compliance

OKX
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5 months ago
Hong Kong, Hong Kong or Singapore, SingaporeStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Formulate, select, and develop technical solutions for compliance projects spanning KYC, identity verification, sanctions and PEP screening, transaction monitoring, travel-rule enforcement, case management, and regulatory reporting.
  • Lead research and development, coordinate resources, troubleshoot issues, and ensure high-quality and timely delivery, including AI model integration work.
  • Partner with Data Science, Risk, and Legal to productionize models and build reliable, auditable inference infrastructure.
  • Define the boundary between probabilistic AI and mandatory deterministic compliance logic.
  • Develop AI engineering practices including agentic coding patterns, prompt libraries, evaluation suites, and human-in-the-loop review for regulated workflows.
  • Support team development and cultivate technical talent across the compliance engineering organization.

Requirements

  • Compliance-first systems mindset with knowledge of state machines, idempotency, exactly-once semantics, reconciliation jobs, and immutable audit logs.
  • Daily fluency with AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Codex CLI, or equivalents is required.
  • Production experience integrating AI/ML model inference into Java services, including REST/gRPC model serving, feature engineering pipelines, latency optimization, graceful degradation, and drift or rollback playbooks.
  • Hands-on production experience with at least one LLM application pattern: RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, or LLM-based classification or extraction.
  • Experience building AI safeguards such as evaluation suites, hallucination tests, prompt regression suites, and human-in-the-loop review.
  • Understanding of distributed systems principles including CAP, consistency, idempotency, and exactly-once versus at-least-once semantics.
  • Experience with KYC, AML, sanctions, fraud, payments, or regulatory audits is a strong plus.
  • Clear logic, quick thinking, and communication skills for working with engineers, compliance officers, auditors, and regulators.
  • Exposure to LLM integration or AI agent frameworks and system-level prompt engineering is a strong plus.

Benefits

  • L&D programs and education subsidies, including budget for AI tools, courses, and conferences
  • Team-building programs and company events
  • Wellness and meal allowances
  • Comprehensive healthcare coverage for employees and dependants

Tech Stack

gRPCJava
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About OKX

5,001-10,000 employees

OKX builds a global cryptocurrency exchange and Web3 wallet used by retail and institutional traders for spot, derivatives, and DeFi access, with developer APIs. Its business model centers on trading and financing fees, plus wallet and on-chain services. Founded in 2017 and privately held, OKX publishes monthly proof-of-reserves and operates as part of the OKG group serving crypto markets worldwide.

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