Lead GRC Engineer
Higgsfield1 day ago
Base Salary
$220k - $280k/yr
Responsibilities
- Translate security, privacy, and compliance requirements into technical controls, automated checks, and enforcement mechanisms.
- Build pipelines and integrations that aggregate control, asset, identity, and system data across infrastructure and business systems.
- Create automated control checks, live monitoring, dashboards, alerts, preventative controls, and production release gates.
- Automate evidence collection, control testing, monitoring, exception management, and cross-framework evidence mapping.
- Continuously test control effectiveness and detect control regression or drift.
- Instrument live risk-posture data for security and GRC stakeholders.
- Design AI-assisted and agentic workflows for evidence analysis, control testing, monitoring, and audit-response preparation.
- Help establish the technical evidence base for AI-related certifications and assurance.
- Partner with Security, Engineering, Privacy, Legal, Product, and other teams.
Requirements
- At least 6 years spanning security, GRC, software engineering, automation engineering, or related technical roles.
- Experience translating framework, regulatory, or policy requirements into technical implementations.
- Hands-on experience building or automating security and compliance controls.
- Production-grade scripting or programming experience, such as Python, including API and integration work.
- Strong understanding of SOC 2, ISO 27001, and credible control evidence.
- Ability to assess whether controls are effective, enforced, and continuously monitored.
- Experience building in rapidly changing or 0-to-1 environments.
- Strong judgment regarding automation, risk, exceptions, enforcement, and engineering velocity.
- Ability to communicate technical controls and evidence to auditors, customer security teams, engineers, and nontechnical stakeholders.
Benefits
- Base salary range of $220,000-$280,000 depending on experience, skills, scope, and location.
- Bonus eligibility through the company’s discretionary annual bonus program.
- Stock option program and potential participation in the company’s long-term growth.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Competitive 401(k) retirement plan with company matching and additional benefits and perks.
- Professional growth, significant ownership, and direct impact at a rapidly scaling AI company.
- Hybrid work arrangement in the San Francisco Bay Area with three full days per week in the San Francisco office and remaining days remote.
- Expected availability during agreed working hours and sufficient overlap with the relevant team’s time zone.
About Higgsfield
Higgsfield is the ultimate production studio for creators by creators. 40% of our team are filmmakers, producers, and creatives who shape our product roadmap, working side by side with our ML engineers in a relentless creative feedback loop. We're on a mission to give everyone with a vision the tools of a world-class studio. Higgsfield is where your ideas become cinema.