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San Francisco Bay Area GRC Jobs
Governance, risk, and compliance roles in San Francisco Bay Area: frontier AI, technology platforms, and fintech.
Open GRC roles in San Francisco Bay Area (50)
Compliance Governance & Oversight Lead
Anthropic
$270k to $345k Compliance Posted Jun 13, 2026
Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) Manager
Sigma Computing
$190k to $215k Featured Governance Posted Jun 13, 2026
Policy Design Manager, Age-Appropriate Design
Anthropic
$245k to $285k Featured AI Governance Posted Jun 16, 2026
Senior GRC Analyst
Crusoe
Featured Governance Posted Jun 25, 2026
Governance, Risk, and Compliance Analyst
You.com
$150k Featured Risk Posted Jun 29, 2026
Security GRC Manager: Customer Trust Enablement
Sierra
Featured Governance CISA CISM CRISC Posted Jun 13, 2026
Senior Workforce Governance Program Manager
Crusoe
$160k to $190k Featured Governance Posted Jun 28, 2026
Senior Model Risk Manager - AI/ML
Mercury
Featured Risk Posted Jun 13, 2026
Director, Compliance Data Science & AI
OKX
$313k to $376k Featured AI Governance Posted Jun 13, 2026
Staff+ Software Engineer, Privacy
Anthropic
$405k Featured Privacy Posted Jun 13, 2026
Security Controls Assurance Lead
Anthropic
$345k Featured Governance Posted Jun 20, 2026
Head of Insurance and Risk Management
OpenAI
Featured Risk Posted Jun 17, 2026
Associate General Counsel, Product and Privacy
Scale AI
Featured Privacy Posted Jun 13, 2026
Director and Associate General Counsel, Compliance
Scale AI
Featured Compliance Posted Jun 13, 2026
Governance Risk and Compliance
Figma
$153k Featured Compliance CISA CISM CRISC Posted Jun 13, 2026
Senior Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) Analyst
Headway
$162k Featured Compliance Posted Jun 17, 2026
Engineering Manager, GRC Platform
Anthropic
$405k Featured Governance Posted Jun 13, 2026
Staff+ Software Engineer, GRC Platform
Anthropic
$405k Featured Governance Posted Jun 13, 2026
Research Scientist, Frontier Risk Evaluations
Scale AI
Featured Risk Posted Jun 13, 2026
Risk Operations
Column
$125k to $150k Featured Risk Posted Jun 13, 2026
Staff+ Security Engineer, Risk Engineering
Anthropic
$320k Featured Risk Posted Jun 13, 2026
Sr. Staff Security Assurance Engineer
Databricks
Featured Governance Posted Jun 20, 2026
Internal Audit Lead, Stablecoins & Digital Assets
Stripe
Featured Audit CISA CISSP Posted Jun 17, 2026
Data Governance Engineer
Chime
$160k Featured Data Governance Posted Jun 13, 2026
Senior HR Compliance Manager
Commure
Featured Compliance Posted Jun 13, 2026
Staff Product Manager, Risk Product Experience
Stripe
Featured Risk Posted Jul 3, 2026
Sr. Machine Learning Engineer, Responsible AI– Applied Research Science
Pinterest
Featured AI Governance Posted Jun 13, 2026
Staff Technical Program Manager, SOX Compliance
Pinterest
Featured Compliance Posted Jun 22, 2026
Principal Compliance Engineer
True Anomaly
$195k to $270k Featured Compliance TS/SCI CISSP Posted Jun 13, 2026
Senior Compliance Automation Engineer
True Anomaly
$175k to $210k Featured Compliance TS/SCI CISA CRISC CISSP Posted Jun 13, 2026
Counsel, Product & Regulatory - Payments & AML
Mercury
Featured Governance Posted Jul 3, 2026
Staff Software Engineer - Fraud
Mercury
Featured Governance Posted Jun 22, 2026
Data Scientist, Risk
Gusto
$186k Featured Risk Posted Jun 22, 2026
Sr Data Scientist, Risk Strategy
OKX
$224k to $268k Featured Risk Posted Jun 22, 2026
Fraud and Abuse Operations Analyst
Plaid
Featured Governance Posted Jun 22, 2026
Senior Fraud Research Analyst
Plaid
Featured Governance Posted Jun 22, 2026
Staff Product Manager, Risk Modeling
Plaid
Featured Risk Posted Jul 3, 2026
Machine Learning Engineer - (Payment Risk/Fraud) - Embedded Insights
Plaid
Featured Risk Posted Jul 3, 2026
Senior Data Scientist - (Payment Risk/Fraud) Embedded Insights
Plaid
Featured Risk Posted Jul 3, 2026
Product Manager, Fraud Data
Plaid
Featured Governance Posted Jun 23, 2026
Staff Product Manager, Risk Platform
Plaid
Featured Risk Posted Jul 3, 2026
Senior Counsel, Sanctions and Trade Compliance
OpenAI
Featured Compliance Posted Jun 20, 2026
Strategic Operations Lead, User Safety & Risk Operations
OpenAI
Featured Risk Posted Jun 20, 2026
Analytics & Automation Lead, User Safety & Risk Operations
OpenAI
Featured Risk Posted Jun 22, 2026
Technical Lead Manager, Data Engineering, Trust & Safety
OpenAI
Featured Governance Posted Jun 22, 2026
Agentic Risk Analyst
OpenAI
Featured Risk Posted Jun 20, 2026
Device Safety & Risk Operations Specialist, User Safety & Risk Operations
OpenAI
Featured Risk Posted Jun 28, 2026
Chief Audit Officer
Mercury
Featured Audit Posted Jun 13, 2026
Head of Product, Assurance
Drata
$208k to $281k Featured Governance Posted Jun 20, 2026
Senior Manager, Financial Risk Management
OpenAI
Featured Risk Posted Jun 13, 2026
The San Francisco Bay Area GRC market
The San Francisco Bay Area is where AI governance is being invented. The concentration of frontier AI labs, platform companies, and venture-backed startups has created demand for responsible AI, model risk, AI compliance, privacy, and data governance roles that barely existed a few years ago. Layer in a large fintech and financial-services presence and the Bay Area becomes the leading market for the newest category of GRC work: governing the AI systems themselves.
San Francisco Bay Area GRC at a glance
Key sectors: frontier AI, technology platforms, and fintech. On the board now: 50 local and 0 remote-eligible roles.
Compliance Officer paystats as of Q2 2026
BLS put the 2024 median at $78,420. In 2026, market trackers show averages from roughly $99,000 to $120,000, with the top quartile above $160,000. Financial centers and senior governance roles sit at the top of that range.
Sources: BLS, 2024 median