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title: 'Security & Compliance Engineer at Aurelian'
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# Security & Compliance Engineer at Aurelian

- **Company:** Aurelian
- **Location:** Seattle, WA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/aurelian/b1ffb206-7042-4e87-b0e5-91e7c008de49

## Job description

## ABOUT AURELIAN

Aurelian builds AI tools that help 911 centers handle more with less, so telecommunicators can stay focused on what matters most and communities get the response they need.

AVA https://www.aurelian.com/ava is a conversational AI agent that answers non-emergency calls; the agent routes, triages, and resolves the calls without any human intervention. By handling administrative calls like noise complaints, lost dogs, and parking inquiries, AVA eliminates hold times and lets call-takers focus their energy on actual emergencies.

CORA https://www.aurelian.com/cora supports call-takers on the calls that matter most. CORA is an on-screen assistant that delivers real-time SOP checklists, smart reminders, and contextual guidance as an emergency call unfolds, so dispatchers stay calm, consistent, and confident when every second counts. When AVA detects an emergency mid-call, it transfers the caller to a telecommunicator and passes along the caller details, location, incident type, and key statements directly into CORA. The call-taker never starts from scratch.

The problem we're solving is serious. The average emergency communications center is 30% understaffed nationwide. Staffing shortages drive burnout and attrition, which makes the shortage worse. Meanwhile, 60-80% of the calls coming in aren't even emergencies at all. Aurelian addresses both sides of that equation: AVA reduces unnecessary call volume, and CORA makes every emergency call more manageable for the people handling it.

Aurelian is live in centers across the country, answering thousands of non-emergency calls every day, and is backed by New Enterprise Associates https://www.nea.com/blog/aurelian-ai-agents-powering-the-911-call-centers-of-the-future and Y Combinator https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/aurelian. Aurelian is growing rapidly; we are hiring people who want to help scale this work and make a real difference in public safety infrastructure for communities across the country.

## WHY JOIN US

We handle criminal justice information for public-safety agencies. That means security and compliance aren't a back-office function at Aurelian - they're on the critical path of every deal we close and every center we go live in. Today that work is spread across our CTO and engineering leadership. We're hiring our first dedicated security and compliance owner to take it end-to-end - and to build it as a system we can scale.

This is a genuinely hybrid role: roughly half hands-on security engineering and half compliance program ownership. You'll harden the systems that handle 9-1-1 call data and own the SOC 2 and CJIS programs, the customer security questionnaires, and the artifacts that make our security posture legible to the agencies who trust us. If you want a seat where security work directly protects people in their worst moments — and where you get to define the function from the ground up — this is it.

## WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

- Own our security posture end-to-end: Be the single source of truth for how Aurelian handles sensitive data. Keep our security claims accurate, consistent, and defensible across every document, questionnaire, and contract.
- Run the compliance program: Own SOC 2 and our alignment to the CJIS Security Policy (and FedRAMP/GovCloud as our gov pipeline grows). Own the artifacts that don't fully exist yet - subprocessor lists, data management and retention policies, incident response plans - and keep them current.
- Turn security reviews from a bottleneck into a process: Own the customer security-questionnaire pipeline so deals don't wait on engineering. Work directly with our implementation and sales teams to get agencies the answers they need, quickly and accurately.
- Do the engineering, not just the paperwork: Harden our cloud infrastructure (Azure), tighten IAM and tenant isolation, improve logging/audit and detection, and shore up our secure development practices.
- Automate the compliance grind: Wire up and operate compliance-automation tooling so evidence collection, continuous controls monitoring, and questionnaire responses run as close to hands-off as possible. Treat compliance as code.
- Operationalize personnel security: Run the processes CJIS requires across engineering - background checks / fingerprinting, security-awareness training, and access controls for anyone who touches criminal justice information.

## WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR

- A builder who can also run the program: You have a real security-engineering foundation and you've owned a compliance program. You're not a spreadsheet-only GRC analyst, and you're not a strategy-only leader who won't get hands-on. ~5–8 years across security engineering and GRC is a good marker, but we care about the blend more than the number.
- Fluent in the frameworks that matter to us: Direct experience with SOC 2 and hands-on familiarity with the CJIS Security Policy, NIST 800-53/800-171, or FedRAMP. Public-sector, GovCloud, or regulated-SaaS experience is a strong plus.
- Comfortable in the cloud and in code: You can harden a cloud environment (Azure ideally), reason about IAM, encryption, network isolation, and logging, and automate controls and evidence with scripting and GRC tooling.
- Credible in the room: You can face an auditor, a state CJIS Systems Officer, or a county CISO team and answer hard questions clearly — and translate the same material for our sales and implementation teams and our engineers.
- High ownership, low ceremony: You see the gap, define the right thing to build, and drive it to done. You'd rather build a durable system than win an argument, and you're energized by being the person the whole company relies on for this.
- Work authorization & CJIS eligibility: You must be authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorship, and — because of the data we handle — able to pass a state and national fingerprint-based background check for CJIS clearance.

To learn more about what it's like to work at Aurelian, visit our About Us https://www.aurelian.com/about page and follow us on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/aureliansystem to stay up to date!

We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every qualification listed above. We believe exceptional people come from many different backgrounds, and we’d rather connect with you than miss the opportunity.

Come do the best work of your life and join us in shaping the future of critical technology that truly matters.

FOR FULL-TIME ROLES, AURELIAN OFFERS A VARIETY OF BENEFITS, INCLUDING:

- Comprehensive Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance
- 401(k)
- Unlimited PTO
- Company-wide offsites
- Equipment stipend
- Relocation assistance
- Daily delivered lunches (on us)
- Office in Seattle
- Start-up Equity

## About Aurelian

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Aurelian builds AI tools that help 911 centers automate non-emergency calls and provide real-time guidance to telecommunicators during emergencies.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Backed by Y Combinator and NEA)
- **Headquarters**: Seattle, WA, USA
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Max Keenan (CEO), James Liu (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Government technology (GovTech) / Public safety
- **Target customers**: Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs) and emergency communications centers across the United States (B2G)
- **Mission**: Make every call better for telecommunicators and the communities they serve.

## Products & Services
- **AVA**: A conversational AI agent that answers non-emergency calls (noise complaints, lost dogs, parking inquiries) autonomously – routes, triages, and resolves calls without human intervention. Integrates with existing CAD and phone systems.
- **CORA**: An on-screen assistant for telecommunicators that delivers real-time SOP checklists, smart reminders, and contextual guidance during emergency calls. Captures caller details, location, and incident type, passing them seamlessly from AVA.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: 53 employees (LinkedIn, as of early 2025) with 528.6% yearly headcount growth; trained on thousands of non-emergency calls daily
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (Summer 2022 batch), New Enterprise Associates (NEA)
- **Growth Signals**: 13 active job postings; rapid hiring across engineering, sales, and implementation; expanding presence in US 911 centers

## Competitive Advantages
- Purpose-built for emergency communications (not a general-purpose AI platform)
- Reduces non-emergency call volume by 60–80%, directly addressing nationwide 30% understaffing in PSAPs
- Integrates alongside existing CAD/phone systems – no rip-and-replace
- Self-healing call routing continuously improves accuracy
- Real-time SOP guidance reduces cognitive load and improves consistency during emergencies

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling deployments across US 911 centers
- Hiring aggressively in engineering, product, and go-to-market roles
- Building deeper integrations with public safety infrastructure
- Growing the team to meet demand while maintaining mission-driven culture

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Fast-growing startup with a meaningful mission – improving public safety and helping telecommunicators focus on emergencies. Described as a place where “every call matters.”
- **Work Policy**: In-office in Seattle, WA (headquarters) – collaborative environment for a tightly-knit team.
- **Perks**: Competitive compensation – posted salaries for senior roles range from $150K–$240K (Staff Backend Engineer: $180K–$240K); opportunity to work on high-impact AI in a critical industry.
- **Engineering Culture**: Emphasis on building reliable, real-time systems that fit real workflows; ownership over products that save lives.

## Sources
1. [aurelian.com](https://www.aurelian.com/)
2. [aurelian.com/careers](https://www.aurelian.com/careers)
3. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/aurelian)
4. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/aurelian)
5. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/aureliansystem)

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