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# Director of GRC at The San Francisco Compute Company

- **Company:** The San Francisco Compute Company
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-09-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sfcompute/e322ba7e-1022-4aef-9f65-d12342f91f38

## Job description

## About San Francisco Compute

San Francisco Compute exists to give ambitious teams large scale supercomputers without taking on a catastrophic balance sheet risk. Most GPU clouds force you to sign long term contracts with no way out. If you underbuy, you miss the window. If you overbuy, you’ll blow up with no way out. It’s a desperate gamble that San Francisco Compute does not force you to play. Originally, SFC was an AI lab that bought too big of a GPU cluster and was forced to sublease it or go under. Today, we build data centers, supercomputers, and then lease those machines on contracts that let our customers sublease. More than anyone else in the industry, we deeply felt the pain and fear of being forced to bet the farm with your neocloud vendor. To make it possible to sublease, we invented the first compute market and became the first one to offer physical settlement. That means we operate GPU clusters like a neocloud and derisk our customers like a market. Customers buying GPU clusters don’t want to work through a network of brokers. They want to transact with the folks that have the keys to the cluster and can own the SLA. To keep the industry safe from unnecessary risk, SFC needs to scale fast. To do that, we serve financially motivated parties as a technical partner to build, operate, & lease supercomputers on their behalf. Basically, we help folks who want an economic return build GPU clusters on their balance sheet, but operated in full by us. That allows us to retain the technical control needed to operate a cloud, but scale fast like a market. SFC’s ability to offer subleasing can significantly increase the levered returns for cluster owners. Our hybrid model out-performs brokered contracts or other “compute markets”, who have to go through a network of counterparties to solve problems. It also lets us design custom solutions for our customers, like clusters deployed in regions next to your dataset or physical eval set or a large CPU fleet deployed colocated with your GPU cluster. Our team includes senior & technical leadership from places like Lambda, Crusoe, Digital Ocean, AWS, and Hut8. Our CTO is the cofounder and former CEO of Voltage Park. In prior roles, our team has deployed 8GW of datacenter capacity & hundreds of thousands of GPUs. We’ve been described as having “the highest talent density in the space.” If you are an honorable, gritty person with eyes wide open & good epistemics, who wants to see AI go right, we’d love to work with you. There has never been a more critical moment in history and it is up to us to shape it on behalf of those who come after us.

## About the Role

As Director of GRC, you'll own governance, risk, and compliance at SFCompute and build the team that runs it - starting with you as the first hire. We've completed our first SOC 2 audit and are pursuing ISO 27001 next. These two - maintaining SOC 2 and obtaining ISO 27001 - are the committed mandate.

Reporting to engineering leadership, you'll set the function's strategy and operating cadence, hire and manage a small GRC team, and personally build and drive the program of work from day one - designing controls, running the tooling, and managing auditors yourself until the team is in place to take it on. Much of what your team will run doesn't exist yet - the mandate is to design new functions and processes, not inherit them.

This is a build role. You should have prior startup experience in a high-impact, senior capacity, and you should have personally taken a company through an ISO 27001 certification for the first time - not just maintained one that was already in place.

## About You

- Prior experience in a senior, high-impact GRC or security compliance role at a startup - you've built programs under resource constraints, not just operated within an already-mature function.
- Hands-on experience driving a company through its first ISO 27001 certification, from readiness through audit - standing up the program, not inheriting one already in place.
- Experience owning or running a SOC 2 program.
- Proven people leadership - you've hired, managed, and developed a team before.
- Comfortable working cross-functionally with engineering on controls, tooling, and technical remediation.

## Responsibilities

- Team Leadership: Hire, manage, and develop the GRC team from day one - set its structure, priorities, and operating cadence, and own its results.
- Compliance Program Ownership: Own our SOC 2 Type 2 program and lead ISO 27001 certification end to end - readiness, gap remediation, control implementation, auditor management, and continuous monitoring.
- Risk Management: Stand up enterprise risk management - risk assessments, the risk register, treatment plans, and reporting to leadership.
- Policy & Process Design: Author and operationalize the policies and functions a maturing company needs: access reviews, business continuity, security awareness, and vendor management. Collaborate with departments to ensure change management and incident response policies are sensible and meet compliance obligations.
- GRC Tooling: Own our compliance automation platform, Vanta, and drive selection and integration of GRC-related tooling.
- Third-Party Risk: Own vendor security reviews and third-party risk assessments.

Nice to Haves

- Hold relevant certifications such as CISA, CISM, CISSP, CRISC, or ISO 27001 Lead Implementer/Auditor.
- Have operated compliance automation platforms (Vanta or similar).
- Have privacy program experience (GDPR/CCPA).

## Benefits

Generous equity grant Team members are offered a competitive salary along with equity in the company

Visa Sponsorships Yes, we sponsor visas and work permits

Retirement matching We match 401(k) plans up to 4%

Medical, dental & vision We offer competitive medical, dental, vision insurance for employees and dependents and cover 100% of premiums

Time off We offer unlimited paid time off as well as 10+ observed holidays

Parental leave We offer biological, adoptive, and foster parents paid time off to spend quality time with family

Daily lunch We cover lunch daily for employees

Unlimited office book budget You can buy as many books for the office as you want

The San Francisco Compute Company is committed to maintaining a workplace free from discrimination and harassment.

We make employment decisions based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, belief, national origin, social or ethical origin, age, physical, mental, or sensory disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, HIV status, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status including pregnancy, or any other status protected by law.

We welcome the opportunity to consider qualified applicants with prior arrest or conviction records. Our commitment to diversity includes hiring talented individuals regardless of their criminal history, in accordance with local, state, and federal laws, including San Francisco’s Fair Chance Ordinance and California’s ban-the-box laws.

## About The San Francisco Compute Company

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: San Francisco Compute provides large-scale, vetted GPU clusters with flexible, short-term contracts and a liquid market that lets customers sublease unused capacity.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A; $52M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Evan Conrad (Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI infrastructure / GPU cloud computing
- **Target customers**: AI startups, enterprises, and research labs needing large-scale GPU clusters for pre-training, inference, and high-performance computing
- **Mission or purpose**: “De-risk the largest infrastructure build‑out in history” by creating a liquid market for GPU offtake, allowing companies to exit long-term contracts by selling capacity back to the market.

## Products & Services
- **GPU Cluster Rentals (H100 / H200)**: Virtual machines (VMs) and bare-metal clusters with 3.2 Tb/s InfiniBand fabric, parallel storage, and fast networking. Pricing starts at $2.04/hr per H100 node and fluctuates with market conditions. [sfcompute.com](https://sfcompute.com/)
- **Managed Slurm Clusters**: For customers who need a fully managed HPC scheduler environment. [sfcompute.com](https://sfcompute.com/)
- **Liquid Market for Offtake**: Customers can sign long-term contracts but then “sell back” unused capacity on a central limit order book, reducing the risk of being locked into fixed commitments. [sfcompute.com](https://sfcompute.com/about)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – $52M (Series A: $40M led by Wing Venture Capital and DCVC in November 2025; earlier venture round: $12M led by Altman Capital in July 2024) [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/san-francisco-compute-company)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Wing Venture Capital, DCVC, Altman Capital
- **Growth Signals**: 112% YoY headcount growth (35 employees); featured in The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and The New York Times; operates thousands of GPUs with ~1hr average lead time for scaling; active job postings for engineering roles. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/sfcompute)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Flexible contracts**: No forced long-term commitments; customers can exit by selling capacity on the liquid market.
- **Own infrastructure stack**: Runs its own virtualization and bare-metal software, unlike a pure reseller.
- **Fast provisioning**: VMs spin up in about 5 minutes; large clusters in ~1 hour.
- **Failure-tolerant design**: Refunds for failed nodes and can repack healthy hardware.
- **Dedicated support**: Large clusters get a dedicated Slack channel with the engineering team and emergency phone escalation.

## Strategic Focus
- **Building the GPU offtake marketplace**: Enabling lenders and cluster developers to de-risk financing by offering customers an exit mechanism.
- **Expanding InfiniBand support**: Planning to offer InfiniBand on VMs in Q3 2026 (currently available on bare metal and managed Slurm).
- **Scaling operations**: Growing the team (currently 35) and continuing to expand cluster capacity in multiple regions (US, Saudi Arabia, Canada, Australia).

## Why Work Here
- **Engineering-led culture**: 32% of employees are in technical roles; the team builds and operates the full stack from UEFI up.
- **Small, fast-moving team**: 35 employees with 112% YoY growth, offering ownership and impact.
- **Location**: In-person culture in San Francisco (“the great city of progress”).
- **Notable perks**: Direct access to engineering, hands-on experience with cutting-edge GPU infrastructure, and the chance to solve novel problems in AI infrastructure financing.
- **Open roles** (6 active postings): Software Engineer (Systems, Cloud, Product), HPC/GPU Cluster Architect, Technical Program Manager, People & Talent Acquisition Leader. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sfcompute)

## Sources
1. [sfcompute.com](https://sfcompute.com/) – Official website, pricing, FAQ
2. [sfcompute.com/about](https://sfcompute.com/about) – Mission, business model, market concept
3. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/sfcompute](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sfcompute) – Careers page, open roles
4. [linkedin.com/company/sfcompute](https://www.linkedin.com/company/sfcompute) – Company details, headcount, funding, employee breakdown
5. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/san-francisco-compute-company) – Funding rounds, investors, headquarters

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