Compliance Engineer - remote job

CertiK is hiring a Compliance Engineer. The role sits in IT and programming and is fully remote. The company hires candidates based in Europe.

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About the Company

CertiK, a pioneering Web3 security company with roots in cutting-edge research from Columbia University and Yale University, offers advanced security solutions for blockchain protocols, smart contracts, and decentralized applications. Established in 2017, and based in New York City, CertiK supplies comprehensive security services, such as smart contract evaluations, penetration testing, on-chain surveillance, incident management, and regulatory compliance, to major projects in the digital asset space.

Today, CertiK serves thousands of global enterprise clients and Web3 projects, with a diverse, distributed workforce across North America, Asia, and Europe. The company is supported by prominent investors such as Coatue, Goldman Sachs, Insight Partners, and Sequoia Capital, and has received acclaim from organizations like the World Economic Forum and CB Insights for its innovations in blockchain security.

About You

You should be a detail-oriented compliance specialist with a solid grasp of regulatory frameworks and licensing applications. You should be able to interpret complex regulations into straightforward guidance and client materials, and handle both structured audit requests and rapidly changing business development needs. You should also recognize when issues need to be escalated to senior Compliance or Legal teams.

About the Role

In this role, you will serve as the initial compliance overseer for AI outputs and associated client deliverables. You will collaborate with client-facing teams and commercial services. Your tasks will include converting raw AI outputs into precise and useful deliverables, and working closely with Engineering to develop recurring compliance work into reusable workflows and knowledge assets.

Responsibilities

- Evaluate and break down regulatory frameworks and licensing necessities. - Assist in licensing and regulatory-readiness projects, covering scoping, applicability analysis, gap assessments, evidence requests, policy reviews, application preparation, and remediation tracking. - Conduct preliminary reviews of AI outputs for regulatory accuracy, evidence support, source traceability, and client suitability. - Transform unstructured requests into clear scopes and deliverables, including compliance analyses and review reports. - Provide compliance guidance, evidence checklists, submission-material mapping, and licensing deliverables. - Work with Engineering to establish regulatory mappings, templates, review rules, evaluation cases, and structured AI workflows. - Escalate high-priority regulatory interpretations and final legal or compliance conclusions to senior reviewers or Legal.

Requirements

- At least three years of experience in compliance, regulatory consulting, digital assets, fintech, financial services, compliance audits, or law firms. - Practical experience with at least one licensing application, regulatory registration, or full-cycle regulatory-readiness project. - Profound knowledge of regulatory analysis, evidence review, and licensing documentation. - Capabilities to produce clear guidance, mappings, presentations, and client reports. - Strong client communication and cross-functional project management skills. - Effective management of urgent and ambiguous client requests while ensuring quality. - Excellent written and spoken English; proficiency in professional Chinese is a plus but not required. - Familiarity with digital asset regulation, VASP licensing, or similar frameworks is beneficial. - Basic understanding of limitations in LLMs, risk of hallucination, source traceability, and human-in-the-loop review.

Compensation

Additional Information

This position is based outside the United States. We are unable to consider candidates who will work from within the U.S.