Job description

At Coram AI, we’re reimagining video security for the modern world. Our cloud-native platform uses computer vision and AI to help businesses stay safe, make smarter decisions, and move faster; from real-time alerts to seamless clip sharing and multi-site visibility. You’ll be joining an ambitious, fast-moving team that values clarity, craftsmanship, and impact. Every person here has a voice, ships meaningful work, and helps shape how AI can make the world safer and more connected. The Role: We're hiring our first Lead Security & Compliance Engineer to own security, IT and compliance at Coram. Our customers range from police departments and federal agencies to Fortune 500 companies, schools and hospitals, across the US, UK and Canada. Every one of them asks how we protect their data. You'll make sure compliance never blocks a deal: you'll own our certifications, lead customer security reviews, and turn policy into real, automated controls across the company. You'll work directly with our engineering leadership and start hands-on. As we grow, you'll have the opportunity to build out the function and the team. This role is based on-site in the Bay Area. Responsibilities: - Own our compliance programmes end to end, starting with SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001: controls, evidence, policies, auditors and remediation. - Lead our path to the frameworks customers ask for most, including NDAA / TAA, HIPAA, CJIS, CMMC, ITAR and FedRAMP, and decide which to certify against and which to answer with documentation. - Partner with sales on customer security reviews, questionnaires and due-diligence calls, and build a trust centre and reusable answers so deals move faster. - Own data flows, retention and privacy controls for sensitive video and biometric data, including GDPR, Illinois BIPA and state-by-state retention rules. - Make compliance real: automate onboarding, offboarding and access reviews, and manage identity, SSO, MFA, device management and endpoint protection. - Own IT systems and vendors across our US, UK and India offices. - Work with engineering on security fixes and architecture changes, and lead incident response and customer communication when something goes wrong. - Build a prioritised security roadmap, report progress to leadership, and hire as the function grows. Qualifications: - 8+ years in security, compliance or IT, with ownership of a security and compliance programme at a B2B startup or scale-up. - Personally led a SOC 2 Type II audit, plus at least one more framework such as ISO 27001, HIPAA, CJIS, CMMC, ITAR or FedRAMP. - Experience selling into enterprise, government, law enforcement, defence or healthcare customers, and working closely with sales on security reviews. - Technical enough to work credibly with engineers: scripting (Python or Bash), cloud and infrastructure-as-code basics, identity platforms and device management. - Comfortable doing the detailed work yourself, from questionnaires to policies, while keeping the bigger picture in mind. - Able to explain risk clearly to non-technical people, and to push back on sales or leadership when it matters. - Experience leading or building a team is a plus, but not required. - Nice to have: biometric or video privacy experience, physical security or IoT hardware background, and certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CISA or OSCP. - Able to work on-site in the Bay Area. We're on a mission to transform a $50B+ legacy industry by bringing the power of cutting-edge multimodal LLMs and computer vision to real-world security and operations. From firearm detection to intelligent access control, our AI-native platform turns every camera and sensor into a smart system that enhances safety, efficiency, and awareness. Founded by Ashesh Jain (ex-Lyft Level 5, PhD Cornell) and Peter Ondruska (ex-Lyft, PhD Oxford), Coram AI is backed by Ansa Capital, Battery Ventures, Mosaic, 8VC and Up Partners, have raised over $65M, and were named to the CB Insights AI 100 as one of the most promising AI companies in the world. If you're excited to work on mission-critical AI that makes an impact in the real world, we’d love to meet you.

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You’ll be joining an ambitious, fast-moving team that values clarity, craftsmanship, and impact. Every person here has a voice, ships meaningful work, and helps shape how AI can make the world safer and more connected.
Own our compliance programmes end to end, starting with SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001: controls, evidence, policies, auditors and remediation.
Lead our path to the frameworks customers ask for most, including NDAA / TAA, HIPAA, CJIS, CMMC, ITAR and FedRAMP, and decide which to certify against and which to answer with documentation.
Partner with sales on customer security reviews, questionnaires and due-diligence calls, and build a trust centre and reusable answers so deals move faster.
Own data flows, retention and privacy controls for sensitive video and biometric data, including GDPR, Illinois BIPA and state-by-state retention rules.
Make compliance real: automate onboarding, offboarding and access reviews, and manage identity, SSO, MFA, device management and endpoint protection.
Own IT systems and vendors across our US, UK and India offices.
Work with engineering on security fixes and architecture changes, and lead incident response and customer communication when something goes wrong.
Build a prioritised security roadmap, report progress to leadership, and hire as the function grows.
8+ years in security, compliance or IT, with ownership of a security and compliance programme at a B2B startup or scale-up.
Personally led a SOC 2 Type II audit, plus at least one more framework such as ISO 27001, HIPAA, CJIS, CMMC, ITAR or FedRAMP.
Experience selling into enterprise, government, law enforcement, defence or healthcare customers, and working closely with sales on security reviews.
Technical enough to work credibly with engineers: scripting (Python or Bash), cloud and infrastructure-as-code basics, identity platforms and device management.
Comfortable doing the detailed work yourself, from questionnaires to policies, while keeping the bigger picture in mind.
Able to explain risk clearly to non-technical people, and to push back on sales or leadership when it matters.
Able to work on-site in the Bay Area.

Nice-to-haves

Experience leading or building a team is a plus, but not required.
Nice to have: biometric or video privacy experience, physical security or IoT hardware background, and certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CISA or OSCP.

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