--- title: 'Senior AI Research Scientist/Engineer - Governance Automation (India) at Credo.AI' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-ai-research-scientist-engineer-governance-automation-india-credo-ai-india-qygy8qdra0pq' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-12' --- # Senior AI Research Scientist/Engineer - Governance Automation (India) at Credo.AI - **Company:** Credo.AI - **Location:** India - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-09-26 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-12 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/credo.ai/73f15a77-9b84-46de-bd9e-bf76f70b6d84 ## Job description ## About Credo AI The Credo AI Governance Platform operates as the trust layer for global enterprises focused on transforming their organizations with AI. It is powered by a knowledge graph that is updated by agents, enriched with global regulatory intelligence and curated business context, supported by Forward-Deployed Experts, giving enterprises a clear view of the risk profile behind every AI system. By making that risk visible, we enable teams to move quickly and confidently scale across systems to adopt compliant AI, faster and in a compliant manner. ## About Us Credo AI is a leading AI governance platform helping enterprises implement responsible AI at scale. We are building the next generation of AI-powered governance solutions that enable organizations to manage risk, ensure compliance, and scale their AI deployments with confidence. ## About the Role This is a full-time remote role for a Senior AI Research Engineer focused on governance automation. You will lead the development of our AI Governance Agent initiative, creating intelligent systems that dramatically reduce the human effort required for effective AI governance. Your work will transform how organizations approach AI risk management and compliance, making robust governance scalable even as AI deployments multiply. You will prototype, validate, and refine AI capabilities that assist in risk identification, control selection, evidence evaluation, and ultimately complete governance workflows. As this work matures, you'll expand into broader scalable oversight challenges, developing novel approaches to governance that leverage AI's capabilities while maintaining appropriate human judgment. ## Key Responsibilities - Support design and development of the Credo AI Agent, an intelligent assistant that helps streamline governance workflows - Create hybrid systems that blend rule-based foundations with advanced AI capabilities - Build prototypes in our Labs environment that demonstrate immediate value while validating longer-term approaches - Research and implement state-of-the-art approaches to AI alignment, evaluation, and oversight - Collaborate with product, engineering, and customer-facing teams to transform prototypes into production systems - Drive thought leadership in AI governance automation through publications and presentations ## About You You're passionate about solving the meta-problem of AI governance with AI itself. You understand that effective oversight requires both strong technical capabilities and nuanced understanding of governance and risk. You thrive in ambiguous problem spaces and can build pragmatic solutions that deliver immediate value while advancing longer-term research goals. ## Minimum Qualifications - Advanced degree in Computer Science, AI/ML, or equivalent experience - 3+ years experience developing and deploying production LLM-based systems - Demonstrated expertise in prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, and LLM alignment - Experience building agents or complex AI systems with multiple components - Proficiency in Python and modern AI development stacks - Strong understanding of AI risks, governance frameworks, or compliance requirements - Excellent communication skills with ability to translate complex technical concepts for diverse stakeholders ## Preferred Qualifications - Experience with risk management, compliance, or governance systems - Background in AI safety, alignment, or responsible AI research - Track record of developing innovative AI applications that address real-world problems - Experience with rapid prototyping, agile development, and experimental validation - Publication record in relevant areas (AI safety, LLMs, governance, etc.) ## Benefits - Competitive base pay and equity compensation - Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance - Flexible remote work and unlimited PTO policy - Professional development budget - Opportunity to shape the future of AI governance *Supports EST/CST/PST time zone (your choice) ## Compensation The expected base salary range for this position is ₹40–50L.  Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position in the specified location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Location & Remote Culture While this is a remote role and we're a fully distributed team, we routinely meet up in-person. We support individual members to coordinate in-person coworking whenever possible, and organize company-wide offsites multiple times a year. At Credo AI we value diversity, equity, and inclusion as core principles in our work environment, and the development of our product offerings, and we have implemented initiatives to foster and support these values. Credo AI Benefits & Perks - Competitive Salary and Equity - Health: We offer health, dental, and vision coverage. We also offer an ergonomic benefit to cover the costs of equipment to help staff stay healthy while working, both in the office and at home. - Coworking: We will cover the cost of co-working spaces like WeWork and in-person meetups. - Unlimited PTO: Credo AI has unlimited time off to support our employees - Generous Parental Leave: We offer up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave. - 401(k) plan for  employees (US only) ## About Credo.AI ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Credo AI provides an enterprise AI governance platform that helps organizations discover, assess, monitor, and comply with AI regulations across models, agents, and applications. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series B, last round July 2024) - **Headquarters**: Palo Alto, California, United States - **Founded**: 2020 - **Founders**: Navrina Singh (CEO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: AI Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) software - **Target customers**: Large enterprises (B2B) across regulated industries (financial services, healthcare, tech, insurance) seeking to manage AI risk and comply with global regulations such as the EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001, and NYC Local Law 144. - **Mission / Purpose**: “To ensure that AI is always in service of humanity” and “to create a world where AI is a tool that serves everyone.” ## Products & Services - **Credo AI Governance Platform**: A centralized “system of record” for AI governance covering intake, registry, risk assessment, policy enforcement, and audit-ready evidence. Supports traditional ML, GenAI, and agentic AI. - **Policy Engine**: Translates regulatory requirements into enforceable policy packs (EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001, etc.) with automated workflows and compliance mapping. - **AI Registry**: Discovers and catalogs all AI systems, agents, vendors, and models, including shadow AI. Provides dependency mapping and risk classification. - **Risk Intelligence**: Continuous, contextual risk assessment with a purpose-built agentic risk and control library for tool misuse, scope drift, and inter-agent risks. Integrates with observability and monitoring tools. - **GAIA (Govern AI Assistant)**: An AI assistant that compresses weeks of governance work into hours. - **Advisory Services**: Forward-deployed experts help enterprises operationalize governance and align with regulatory standards. ## Market Standing - **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private) - **Key Metric**: Total funding – conflicting reports: $41.3M per LinkedIn/Wellfound vs. $39.3M per CB Insights. Revenue estimated at $2.2M annually (source: LinkedIn). - **Notable Investors**: Decibel Partners (seed lead), Sands Capital Ventures (Series A lead), FPV Ventures and Mozilla Ventures (Series B co-leads). - **Growth Signals**: - Named a **Leader** in the Forrester Wave™: AI Governance Solutions, Q3 2025 (highest scores in 12 criteria). - Ranked **No. 6 in Applied AI** on Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies of 2026. - Recognized by Fast Company’s Next Big Things in Tech and CB Insights. - Mentioned in Gartner’s Market Guide for AI Governance Platforms (2025). - Headcount grew **+25.4% YoY** to 58 employees, operating across 6 countries. - Key customer reference: Mastercard uses the Credo AI Platform. ## Competitive Advantages - **Category creator & pure-play focus**: Credo AI pioneered the AI governance category and is now defining “Agent Governance” for agentic AI – a first-mover advantage. - **Regulatory authority**: The team has been directly involved in shaping AI governance standards at ISO, NIST, the EU Parliament, NATO, and the OECD. Pre-built policy packs are written by those who helped write the regulations. - **Governance Knowledge Graph**: Fuses global regulatory intelligence with each customer’s business context, automatically adapting controls (e.g., different rules for an EU insurance claims agent vs. a US retail marketing agent). - **Continuous, not point-in-time**: Runtime evidence flows back through monitoring and security stacks, enabling real-time governance rather than monthly audits. - **Multi-layer governance**: Governs agents, applications, models, and vendors in a single platform – a differentiator as agentic AI proliferates. ## Strategic Focus - **Agentic AI governance**: Credo AI is doubling down on agent registry, agent-specific risk controls, and runtime governance for autonomous agents. - **Expanding integrations**: 300+ integrations with existing enterprise stacks (observability, security, ML platforms) to embed governance into workflows. - **Global compliance automation**: Continually updating policy packs for emerging regulations (EU AI Act enforcement, OMB M-25, state-level laws like CO ADMT) to reduce compliance burden for multinational enterprises. - **Scale through platform adoption**: Targeting large enterprises with cross-functional governance teams (security, legal, engineering, procurement) to become the single command center for AI oversight. ## Why Work Here - **Mission-driven culture**: Employees are drawn to the company’s purpose of ensuring AI serves humanity. The CEO cites a founding ethos of “technology should always be in service of humanity.” - **Growth trajectory**: Headcount grew 25% YoY; company is scaling in a hot regulatory environment with strong market recognition. - **Team composition**: Small, high-impact team (58 people) with a mix of technical (16%), consulting (11%), and policy experts. Notable alumni go to top tech companies (Meta, Mozilla). - **Remote / Hybrid**: Operations span 6 countries (US, Canada, UK, Belgium, Netherlands, Brazil). Job postings suggest remote-friendly roles; exact policy not specified but likely hybrid for Palo Alto HQ. - **Perks & culture**: Described as a “community of practice” – employees are builders and believers. The company emphasizes integrity, courage, and collaboration with regulators and researchers. - **Open roles**: Currently hiring for AI Governance Advisor, AI Governance Success Manager (India), and general future hiring. Careers page: [jobs.ashbyhq.com/credo.ai](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/credo.ai) ## Sources 1. [credo.ai](https://www.credo.ai/) – Company website, platform details, customer references 2. [credo.ai/company/aboutus](https://www.credo.ai/company/aboutus) – Mission, founder, culture 3. [linkedin.com/company/credo-ai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/credo-ai) – Employee count, revenue estimate, funding, headcount growth 4. [cbinsights.com/company/credo-ai](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/credo-ai) – Funding total ($39.3M), founded year, product description 5. [credo.ai/company/jobs](https://www.credo.ai/company/jobs) – Open positions 6. 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