About the role
Thinking Machines Lab's mission is to empower humanity through advancing collaborative general intelligence. We're building a future where everyone has access to the knowledge and tools to make AI work for their unique needs and goals. We are scientists, engineers, and builders who’ve created some of the most widely used AI products, including ChatGPT and Character.ai, open-weights models like Mistral, as well as popular open source projects like PyTorch, OpenAI Gym, Fairseq, and Segment Anything.
About
the Role We're looking for a GRC Lead who personally drives our certifications (SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP and others as we grow) from scoping through audit close, and runs our compliance processes day to day. You'll collect the evidence, write the control documentation, and sit across from the auditor yourself. You'll work closely with security, legal, safety, and engineering to answer compliance and risk questions directly, using your own technical understanding of how our systems work. Day to day, you'll be managing audits, controls, and risk assessments. Alongside that, you'll be building the roadmap for what this function needs to look like in a year.
What You'll Do Own our certification roadmap end to end: scope each certification, build the control set, collect and organize evidence, and represent TML directly to auditors through to close. Manage recurring compliance processes on a set cadence: control testing, audit prep and response, risk register maintenance, and policy attestations. Answer compliance and risk questions from engineering, security, and product teams directly, by building enough technical fluency across our infrastructure, model deployment, and data handling to do so without escalating every question. Track regulatory and framework
requirements relevant to an AI company (GDPR, EU AI Act, and similar) and translate them into specific, actionable controls. Identify gaps in current compliance coverage as the company adds new products, infrastructure, or jurisdictions, and propose what needs to change before it becomes a blocker. Build and maintain the tooling and documentation that make the next audit cycle faster than the last one. Plan a multi-quarter roadmap for the GRC function itself, while continuing to personally run the certifications and audits already on the books. Skills and