Security Engineer - GRC Fintech & Financial Services na xAI

New York, New York, United States; Palo Alto, California, United States; Washington, District of Columbia, United States

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SpaceXAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. We are seeking an experienced Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) Engineer focused on fintech and financial services regulation to help scale compliance for SpaceXAI and xMoney. The role requires hands‑on fintech compliance experience, fluency in data privacy frameworks, and GRC engineering skills such as Compliance‑as‑Code and continuous evidence collection.

Salary

USD 152,000 - 228,000

Requirements

Skills

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Security, Cybersecurity, or in an engineering/STEM field.
  • 8+ years of experience in GRC, security compliance, or technology audit roles in fintech, banking, payments, or other heavily regulated financial environments.
  • Hands‑on experience with PCI DSS and at least one of NYDFS (23 NYCRR 500) or FFIEC cybersecurity/IT examination guidance — including implementing or operating controls, not only reading the requirements.
  • Experience with Compliance‑as‑Code practices and GRC automation tooling (e.g., Vanta, or similar), with a bias toward continuous monitoring and reducing manual evidence collection.
  • Technical fluency sufficient to speak the language of engineering, cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure), and security architecture, and to anticipate how design decisions impact risk and compliance.
  • 10+ years of security compliance, GRC engineering, or technology audit-related experience in fintech or financial services.
  • Hands‑on experience implementing technical controls (e.g., IAM, logging and monitoring, encryption, network segmentation, infrastructure hardening) and integrating compliance checks into CI/CD pipelines.
  • Experience supporting SOC 2 and/or ISO 27001 programs alongside fintech-specific obligations.
  • Experience with payment ecosystems, cardholder data environments, tokenization, or similar PCI-scoped architectures.
  • Working knowledge of data privacy frameworks including GDPR and CCPA/CPRA, and experience partnering with Legal or Privacy.
  • Familiarity with additional financial regulatory regimes (e.g., GLBA, BSA/AML technology controls, state money‑transmitter expectations, or international banking rules in the EU, UK, or other markets, e.g DORA) is valuable.
  • Experience enabling enterprise sales through trust centers, vendor questionnaires, and customer security reviews.
  • Proven ability to operate a risk register and apply judgment in gray areas — focusing on outcomes over optics.
  • Exceptional analytical, problem‑solving, organizational, and project management skills, with the ability to take compliance programs from conception to assessment‑ready launch.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills — able to explain regulatory and privacy requirements to engineers, legal, sales, and executives in plain language.
  • Certifications such as CISSP, CISA, CISM, CRISC, PCIP, CIPP/US, CIPP/E, or similar preferred.
  • Experience with emerging AI‑related financial services expectations or securing AI features in a regulated fintech product is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Own and evolve financial services and payments compliance posture across PCI DSS, NYDFS (including 23 NYCRR 500), FFIEC guidance, and related banking/fintech regulatory expectations supporting xMoney across relevant jurisdictions.
  • Build and maintain Compliance‑as‑Code capabilities — policy‑as‑code, automated control validation, continuous evidence collection, and monitoring integrated into CI/CD — so audit readiness scales with the business rather than depending on manual, point‑in‑time checks.
  • Operate and extend GRC platforms (e.g., Vanta) as the backbone for control mapping, evidence management, and continuous compliance; integrate with cloud, identity, logging, and engineering systems to reduce administrative bottlenecks.
  • Partner with Architects and Engineering Leads to bake compliance and privacy requirements; translate complex regulatory obligations into concrete technical implementations and auditor‑ready narratives without slowing development.
  • Design, implement, and validate technical controls relevant to fintech environments (cardholder data environment scoping and segmentation, access control, logging, encryption, change management, vulnerability management) — not just document them.
  • Operate the cybersecurity and compliance risk register — identify, quantify, and track risks, distinguishing theoretical gaps from meaningful business and regulatory risk.
  • Lead risk assessments and compliance reviews for new products, payment flows, features, vendors, and architectural changes that affect the regulated attack surface.
  • Own and cultivate relationships with external auditors, assessors (e.g., QSAs where applicable), and regulators; serve as the bridge between auditors and internal teams so requests are reasonable, clear, and relevant to our stack.
  • Develop, maintain, and continuously improve policies, standards, and procedures aligned to PCI, NYDFS, FFIEC, privacy laws, and complementary frameworks (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001) where they overlap.
  • Champion pragmatic governance — prioritize issues that represent real security or business risk over checkbox compliance.

Technologies

Compliance‑as‑CodeVantaCI/CDAWSGCPAzureIAMlogging and monitoringencryptionnetwork segmentationinfrastructure hardeningSOC 2ISO 27001PCI DSSNYDFSFFIECGDPRCCPA

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