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title: 'Senior Software Engineer - GRC at Emergent Labs'
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# Senior Software Engineer - GRC at Emergent Labs 

- **Company:** Emergent Labs 
- **Location:** Bengaluru, India
- **Posted:** 2026-10-08
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/emergentlabsinc/jobs/4429196009

## Job description

Emergent builds autonomous coding agents that replace traditional software development by generating, testing, and deploying production applications directly from plain-language intent. Our systems run in production at global scale and are used to build millions of real applications.

Since our public launch, we've crossed $130M in ARR and grown to over 10M users across 190+ countries, who have built 12M+ applications on Emergent. We're backed by Creaegis, Claypond, Sentinel Global, Khosla Ventures, SoftBank, Google, Lightspeed, Prosus, Together, and Y Combinator.

We're solving the hard part of AI-driven software creation: correctness, reliability, security, and scale in real production systems. The team is built by repeat founders, Olympiad medalists, IIT & IIM alumni, and leaders from Google, Amazon, and Dropbox.

We're hiring builders who want ownership, speed, and impact at global scale.

Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) Lead

## The Role

Emergent is scaling a global B2C product used across 190+ countries. We’re looking for a GRC Lead to build and run our compliance program across security, privacy, AI, and consumer protection.

## What You’ll Own

- Certifications & Audits: Own SOC 2, ISO 27001, and related certifications from readiness through audit and renewal.
- Privacy & Data Compliance: Drive GDPR and global privacy requirements, including data residency, DSARs, DPAs, and records of processing.
- AI Governance: Define controls for emerging AI regulations, including the EU AI Act, and their application to autonomous code generation and execution.
- GRC Program: Own policies, controls, evidence collection, vendor/subprocessor risk, and audit readiness.
- Engineering Partnership: Translate compliance requirements into practical, scalable controls that engineering teams can actually implement.

## What We’re Looking For

- 5 to 7+ years in GRC, security compliance, privacy, or risk
- Hands-on experience with SOC 2 / ISO 27001
- Strong understanding of GDPR and global privacy
- Experience managing audits, vendors, controls, and compliance programs end to end
- Ability to work closely with Engineering, Security, Product, and Legal teams

What Sets You Apart

- You think in systems, not checklists
- Experience with AI governance, EU AI Act, or cloud-native products
- Comfortable building GRC programs from the ground up
- Prefer practical, scalable controls over paperwork

## Why Emergent

- Build governance for AI systems that build software
- Operate at global scale across 190+ countries
- Work directly with founders and core engineering, security, and product teams
- Solve emerging challenges at the intersection of AI, security, privacy, and regulation

## About Emergent Labs 

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Emergent is an AI-powered development platform that transforms plain-language descriptions into production-ready software applications, replacing traditional coding with autonomous coding agents.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: Pleasanton, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2024 (estimated; earliest funding round March 2025) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/emergentlabs)
- **Founders**: Mukund Jha (CEO) and Madhav Jha (CTO) – twin brothers [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/emergent)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI-powered software development / Autonomous coding agents
- **Target customers**: B2B (teams, enterprises) and B2C (individual builders, power users); from beginners to experienced developers
- **Mission**: Democratize product development by letting anyone turn ideas into monetizable software without writing code

## Products & Services
- **[Emergent Platform](https://emergent.sh/)**: AI app builder that converts natural language descriptions into fully functional applications. Handles architecture, coding, testing, and deployment autonomously. Generates production-ready code that users own. Pricing starts at $17/month (individual), $167/month (power users), $250/month (teams), with a free tier and enterprise options.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: $100M ARR achieved in 8 months (fastest-growing startup globally) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/emergentlabs); Total funding $100.125M [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/emergentlabs)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Khosla Ventures, SoftBank Vision Fund, Google (AI Futures Fund), Lightspeed India, Prosus Ventures, Together Fund, Y Combinator [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/emergentlabs)
- **Growth Signals**: 6M+ users across 190+ countries; 6M+ applications built; headcount grew 1,713% YoY to 212 employees; 37 active job postings [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/emergentlabs)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Natural language interface** – no drag-and-drop or coding required; works through conversation
- **Full code ownership** – users own all generated code, can download, modify, or host anywhere
- **Autonomous end-to-end development** – agents plan, build, test, and debug apps independently
- **Production scale** – systems run at global scale, handling millions of real applications

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling reliability, security, and correctness of AI-driven software creation
- Expanding enterprise capabilities and custom AI agents
- Continuing rapid hiring (especially in engineering, AI, and growth roles) to support hypergrowth

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: "Own it" – full product ownership from day one; direct founder mentorship; weekly releases with millions of users [emergent.sh/careers](https://emergent.sh/careers)
- **Remote/Hybrid**: Offices in Bangalore, India and San Francisco/Pleasanton, USA; open to remote for some roles (details per job posting)
- **Perks**: Competitive salary + equity; unlimited PTO; full insurance coverage; meal coverage; modern tech stack
- **Engineering culture**: Elite team of Google, Amazon, IIT/IIM alumni; tackle ambitious projects with the latest tools and technologies; high impact at global scale
- **Growth**: Fastest-growing startup in the world; massive career acceleration opportunity

## Sources
1. [emergent.sh/careers](https://emergent.sh/careers)
2. [emergent.sh](https://emergent.sh/)
3. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/emergentlabsinc](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/emergentlabsinc)
4. [linkedin.com/company/emergentlabs](https://www.linkedin.com/company/emergentlabs)
5. [ycombinator.com/companies/emergent](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/emergent)

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