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AI Compliance Engineer (Responsible AI)

Snowheap
Abu Dhabi, UAE
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Overview

SnowHeap is a UAE-based AI consultancy.

We ship production LLM systems for regulated industries across MENA/EU/US and need an

Ai Compliance Engineer

to own model governance, safety, and evaluations across our stack (OpenAI, Claude, Agno, CrewAI, LangChain/LangGraph/LangSmith).

You’ll design controls that let us move fast

and

stay auditable: policy to pipeline, document to dashboard.

Location: Remote (MENA/EU time zones) with optional Dubai meetups.

Contract Type

6-month temporary contract (with potential extension based on project needs and performance).

Location

Remote (MENA/EU time zones).

Candidates must be able to align at least

80% of their working hours with UAE time

(depending on their location).

Optional Dubai meetups.

Please note:

We are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this role

at this time.

Tasks

  • Define and run SnowHeap’s
  • AI governance program
  • : policies, control library, risk register, exception handling, and sign-offs (from ideation to production).
  • Map laws and frameworks (EU AI Act, GDPR/PDPL/DIFC DPL, NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001 & 27001, SOC 2) to
  • concrete technical controls
  • in our products and client projects.
  • Build an
  • evaluation harness
  • for LLMs/agents: golden sets, scenario tests, adversarial probes, offline evals, and online A/Bs; track hallucination, safety, bias, privacy leakage, robustness, cost, and latency.
  • Implement
  • guardrails
  • (PII detection, jailbreak/prompt-injection defenses, output filters, content safety) and wire them into pipelines (LangChain/LangGraph, CrewAI/Agno).
  • Stand up
  • audit-ready telemetry
  • : data lineage, prompt/response logging with redaction, model cards, decision traces, and approval workflows (LangSmith/observability tools).
  • Partner with Security/Privacy on

Dpias And Tra

  • , retention, DLP, key management, access controls, and vendor risk (OpenAI/Anthropic terms, Azure/GCP/AWS).
  • Lead
  • red-teaming exercises
  • ; coordinate incident response playbooks for model failures and safety regressions.
  • Review prompts, fine-tunes, and datasets for policy compliance; curate evaluation datasets and “go/no-go” acceptance criteria.
  • Coach engineers, sales, and clients; write crisp docs and checklists; run internal trainings and readiness reviews.
  • Contribute to proposals and client audits; turn compliance into a
  • product advantage
  • .

Requirements

  • 4+ years in Security/Privacy/Compliance, ML governance, or safety engineering, with
  • 2+ years on LLM products
  • .
  • Strong grasp of
  • LLM stacks
  • : OpenAI & Azure OpenAI, Claude, Agno, CrewAI, LangChain/LangGraph/LangSmith.
  • Hands-on
  • model evaluation
  • : building test sets, rubric-based scoring, offline/online evals, statistical analysis; familiarity with tools or libraries for evals/observability.
  • Working knowledge of
  • privacy & AI risk
  • (GDPR/PDPL/DIFC DPL, EU AI Act concepts, NIST AI RMF), and how to turn them into safeguards, SOPs, and controls.
  • **Context engineering expertise:**
  • ability to design, test, and audit prompt chains, context windows, and memory architectures for compliance, safety, and explainability.
  • Solid scripting in

Python And Pydantic

  • (TypeScript nice to have); able to review PRs and add compliance checks to CI/CD.
  • Cloud/MLOps fluency: one of AWS/GCP/Azure; containers, secrets, monitoring, access controls.
  • Excellent writing and stakeholder skills; can say “no” with rationale and ship a safer “yes”.

Nice-To-Haves

  • ISO 27001/ISO 42001/SOC 2 implementation or audit experience.
  • Prior
  • red-teaming
  • of LLMs (prompt-injection, data exfiltration, harmful content).
  • Experience in regulated domains (financial services, healthcare, public sector).
  • Arabic or UAE market experience.

Benefits

  • High-ownership role shaping SnowHeap’s AI governance and product roadmap.
  • Remote-first across MENA/EU time zones; flexible hours.
  • Competitive compensation with performance bonus.
  • Fast career growth, build the function and lead it.
  • If you’ve shipped real LLM systems and can turn regulation into
  • running code and measurable quality
  • , we want to talk.
  • Apply with your CV plus any of the following (optional but helpful):
  • Links to eval frameworks, safety work, or red-team write-ups you’ve done
  • Example policies/checklists you authored (redacted is fine)
  • GitHub or snippets showing eval harnesses, guardrails, or LangSmith/LangGraph workflows
  • SnowHeap is an equal-opportunity employer.
  • We value diverse perspectives and hire for talent, integrity, and impact.

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