--- title: 'GRC Manager at Baseten' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/grc-manager-baseten-san-francisco-h4rsmvjx5r79' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-18' --- # GRC Manager at Baseten - **Company:** [Baseten](https://feeny.ai/companies/baseten) - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Compensation:** $150k–$250k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-10-08 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-18 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/baseten/d04877d0-4360-4adb-879b-0ceb02f08c76 ## Job description ## ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma, and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our [$1.5B Series F](https://www.baseten.co/blog/announcing-our-series-f/), led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to ship AI products. ## THE ROLE We are seeking an experienced and detail-oriented GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance) Manager to build, support, and continuously enhance Baseten’s security governance, compliance, and privacy programs. As one of the early members of our security organization, you will play a key role in ensuring our platform meets and exceeds the highest standards for privacy, trust, and regulatory compliance. You’ll work closely with Engineering, Product, Security, and Legal to define compliance requirements, assess platform capabilities, and drive implementation from initial scoping through validation. You will also lead customer assurance efforts, helping customers understand our security architecture and compliance posture while bringing their requirements back into product planning. Alongside this product focus, you’ll contribute to Baseten’s broader GRC program, including governance, risk management, audits, vendor assessments, and security awareness. ## RESPONSIBILITIES - Product Compliance: Translate regulatory, framework, and customer requirements into clear product requirements and technical controls, partnering with Engineering and Product to build compliance into platform design and development. - Governance & Policy Development: Design, implement, and maintain security governance frameworks, policies, and procedures that align with Baseten’s risk posture and industry best practices. - Risk Management: Build and manage the company-wide risk assessment program, identifying, tracking, and mitigating key security and compliance risks. - Compliance Operations: Support efforts to achieve and maintain compliance with SOC 2, ISO 27001/27701, HIPAA, FedRAMP and other applicable standards and regulations. - Audit & Certification Management: Coordinate external audits and certification processes, ensuring evidence collection, control validation, and remediation plans are executed efficiently. - Third-Party Risk Management: Oversee vendor security assessments and ensure third-party providers meet Baseten’s security and compliance standards. - Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Engineering, Product, and Operations teams to embed compliance and risk management into day-to-day operations and technical processes. - Customer Trust & Assurance: Support customer security questionnaires, due diligence efforts, and documentation requests from prospective and existing clients. - Training & Awareness: Develop and deliver security and compliance training to ensure company-wide understanding of key policies and responsibilities. - Continuous Improvement: Stay current on evolving regulatory requirements and lead initiatives to mature our compliance and risk management programs. ## REQUIREMENTS - BS Degree in CS, CE, MIS or equivalent field - 5+ years of experience in GRC, Security Compliance, or Information Security roles, ideally in a SaaS or cloud-native environment. - Strong understanding of security frameworks and standards such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST, and GDPR. - Proven track record managing compliance audits and certification programs end-to-end. - Experience working directly with leaders and executives within Enterprise organizations - Experience working cross-functionally with technical and non-technical stakeholders to implement compliance and security controls. - Proven experience driving product compliance by translating regulatory and customer requirements into actionable product controls with Engineering and Product - Experience defining project requirements and driving implementation by translating compliance objectives into clear deliverables, coordinating cross-functional stakeholders, and managing execution through completion. - Experience responding to customer security questionnaires and leading customer security interviews, with the ability to clearly communicate security controls, compliance posture, and risk management practices to technical and nontechnical audiences. - Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment while maintaining structure and process discipline. ## NICE TO HAVE - Experience with cloud security compliance in AWS or GCP environments. - Hands-on experience using GRC tools (e.g., Vanta, Drata, Secureframe, Anecdotes). - Understanding of AI/ML security considerations, data privacy, and model governance. - Previous experience building and implementing security controls in an early-stage or rapidly growing startup. - Relevant certifications (e.g., CISA, CISSP, CISM, ISO 27001 Lead Implementer). ## BENEFITS - Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity - (U.S. only) 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employee and dependents - Flexible PTO policy including company wide Winter Break (our offices are closed from Christmas Eve to New Year's Day!) - Paid parental leave - Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot - (U.S. only) Company-facilitated 401(k) - Exposure to a variety of ML startups, offering unparalleled learning and networking opportunities. Apply now to embark on a rewarding journey in shaping the future of AI! If you are a motivated individual with a passion for machine learning and a desire to be part of a collaborative and forward-thinking team, we would love to hear from you. At Baseten, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law (by example, the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, where applicable). ## About Baseten ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Baseten is an AI infrastructure platform that provides high-performance inference infrastructure for deploying, optimizing, and managing AI models in production. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series F) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States - **Founded**: 2019 - **Founders**: Tuhin Srivastava (CEO), Amir Haghighat (CTO), Phil Howes (Co-Founder & Chief Scientist) ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: AI Infrastructure / Cloud Computing / MLOps - **Target customers**: B2B, targeting AI-native companies, enterprises, and developers building and deploying large-scale AI applications. Notable customers include Abridge, Cursor, Lovable, Notion, and OpenEvidence. - **Mission or purpose statement**: Provide the tooling, expertise, and hardware needed for teams to bring performant AI products to market as quickly and reliably as possible. The company's core belief is that "inference is everything" and that the future of AI will consist of millions of specialized models embedded into every product and workflow. ## Products & Services - **Baseten Cloud**: A fully-managed, global deployment platform for AI models. Provides out-of-the-box performance optimizations, 99.99% uptime, and massive horizontal scale. Supports single-tenant and self-hosted (hybrid) deployments. - **Baseten Inference Stack**: The proprietary, underlying technology that powers the platform. Includes custom model runtimes (LLMs, embeddings, voice AI, image generation), advanced caching, custom kernels, and cutting-edge performance research. Claims 2x higher throughput and 10% lower latency for embeddings (BEI). - **Baseten Chains**: Enables granular hardware and autoscaling for compound AI systems, reportedly powering 6x better GPU usage and cutting latency in half. - **Frontier Gateway (Pre-optimized Model APIs)**: Allows users to instantly test and deploy pre-optimized versions of the latest open-source, custom, and fine-tuned models (e.g., Qwen, DeepSeek, GLM, gpt-oss). - **Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE)**: A service offering where Baseten engineers work side-by-side with key customers to build, optimize, and scale their models from prototype to production. - **Training on Baseten**: Allows users to train models and deploy them in one click on the inference-optimized infrastructure. - **Monetization API**: An inference API that allows model developers to monetize their models. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not privately disclosed, but the company has raised a total of **$585M** in funding. - **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of **$7.0M** (as per LinkedIn). Total funding of **$585M**. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: IVP, Spark Capital, Bond, CapitalG, South Park Commons, Greylock. - **Growth Signals**: - Announced a **Series F** funding round (details not fully public in search results). - **Massive headcount growth**: 224.4% year-over-year, now employing 201 people. - **LinkedIn follower growth**: 199.9% year-over-year. - **Active job postings**: 112 open roles. - Acquired the company **Parsed**. - Backed by high-profile institutional investors including CapitalG (Alphabet's growth fund) and IVP. ## Competitive Advantages - **High-Performance Inference Stack**: A proprietary, deeply optimized stack focusing on ultra-low latency and high throughput for the most demanding Gen AI workloads (voice AI, real-time streaming, complex compound AI systems). - **Customer Obsession & Forward Deployed Engineering**: A hands-on, consulting-style approach with their FDE team, which builds deep, sticky relationships with high-value customers like Abridge and Notion. - **Global & Hybrid Cloud Flexibility**: Offers both fully-managed cloud and self-hosted deployments within customer VPCs, providing scalability and security for enterprises with strict data governance requirements. - **Founding Team's Deep Technical Credibility**: Built by former researchers and engineers who experienced the "deployment hell" of AI systems firsthand, giving them deep empathy and expertise in the problem they are solving. ## Strategic Focus - **Dominating the "Inference-as-a-Service" Market**: The company's core thesis is that inference will become the largest market ever created, and they are building the infrastructure to power it. - **Scaling for High-Volume, Mission-Critical Workloads**: Focus on reliability, performance, and cost-efficiency for customers who cannot afford downtime or latency (e.g., AI phone calls, real-time translation). - **Deepening the Technical Stack**: Continuously investing in performance research (custom kernels, new decoding techniques) and expanding capabilities into new areas like voice AI and audio streaming. - **Aggressive Hiring**: With 112 open positions and massive YoY growth, scaling the engineering, sales, and operations teams is a clear priority. ## Why Work Here - **Hard Technical Problems**: Engineers work on the most challenging problems in modern infrastructure—model serving, low-level GPU optimization, networking, distributed systems, and observability. This is a high-agency, high-impact engineering environment. - **High Growth Trajectory**: The company is experiencing explosive growth (224% headcount increase, active hiring). This offers significant career acceleration and ownership opportunities. - **Strong Engineering Culture**: Founded by engineers, for engineers. The culture emphasizes "first-principles thinking across the entire stack" and a "customer-obsessed" mindset. The employer rating on compensation, culture, and work-life balance is rated highly (5.0). - **Top-Tier Team & Investors**: The team has strong talent density with hires from Meta, Stripe, Google, NVIDIA, and Databricks. Being backed by top-tier VCs provides stability and a clear long-term vision. - **Hybrid/In-Office**: Based in San Francisco with a strong in-person or hybrid culture common for fast-moving infrastructure startups. ## Sources 1. [Company Website](https://www.baseten.co/) 2. [Careers Page](https://www.baseten.co/resources/careers/) 3. [About Us (Team)](https://www.baseten.co/about-us/) 4. [LinkedIn Company Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/baseten) 5. 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