Security & Trust Engineer

About the role

Alex is the AI recruiter for hiring great people. Alex interviews, screens, and schedules every candidate – over voice, video, and text – so talent teams hire more great people, faster, without adding TA headcount. The recruiter stays in control: every shortlist is approved by a human, and every relationship and offer is owned by the customer's team. We're past 1M+ interviews, integrate with 33+ ATS platforms, and 96% of candidates prefer interviewing with Alex. We're revenue-generating, well-funded, backed by premier investors, and are focused on enterprise customers: selling to VPs of Talent Acquisition, CHROs, and CFOs at large employers who are rethinking how hiring gets done at scale.

We're hiring our first dedicated Security & Trust Engineer to own information security, compliance, and AI governance at Alex. You do not need to be a compliance expert today, but you need to be motivated to own this space. You need to be smart, technical, extremely organized, and genuinely interested in AI risk and security. We'll expect and support you to get deep fast. You'll report to our CTO and work closely with Engineering, Sales, and Operations.

Why join: You own the function – first security and trust hire, defining the program, posture, and story. You'll work on the most interesting regulatory frontier in software: AI in hiring, where AI regulation is landing first and hardest, building a playbook that doesn't exist yet. Security review is a live bottleneck in our enterprise GTM motion; fixing it is visible, measurable, and immediately valuable. Room to grow into it – we're hiring for trajectory, not credentials. Direct exposure to our CTO, CEO, Sales leadership, and enterprise customers' security teams. Impact: help a product that changes how people get hired and gives every candidate a real interview instead of a resume screen, responsibly. Upside: competitive compensation, including equity.

Responsibilities

• Own the customer security review, end to end: be the single owner of infosec questionnaires, SIGs, CAIQs, vendor risk assessments, DPAs, and security addenda; turn them around fast, accurately, and without pulling engineers off roadmap; where deals stall on security, you unstick them.
• Automate the process, don't just staff it: build the answer library, evidence repository, and tooling — including AI tooling — that takes questionnaire turnaround from weeks to days; measure of success is that volume goes up while manual effort goes down.
• Become our expert on AI risk and regulation: own our point of view on the EU AI Act, NYC LL144, GDPR, state AI and biometric laws, bias auditing, and emerging global rules on automated employment decision tools; track what's changing, translate it into what we actually do, and keep Sales, Product, and leadership ahead of it.
• Represent Alex externally: lead security, information security, and AI governance calls with enterprise prospects and customers; build the trust center, security whitepapers, and AI governance documentation that secures Alex as enterprise-grade, leading expert in this space.
• Run compliance and audit: own SOC 2 and drive the roadmap for what comes next (ISO 27001, ISO 42001, regional requirements); manage auditors, penetration tests, and compliance platform tooling; keep certifications current without fire drills.
• Make the controls real: partner with Engineering to ensure our systems, processes, and technical controls genuinely back up what we tell customers — access management, vendor and subprocessor review, vulnerability triage and remediation, incident response, cloud and CI/CD security posture; build the risk register and run the program against it.
• Shift left with Product and Engineering: get involved early on new features and model changes so security, privacy, and AI-governance questions are answered at design time rather than discovered in a customer review.

Requirements

Smart, technical, extremely organized, and genuinely interested in AI risk and security. Motivated to own the security, compliance, and AI governance space. Able to learn quickly and deepen expertise with support. Comfortable working with engineering, sales, and operations, reporting to the CTO.

Benefits

• Healthcare, vision and dental insurance
• 401(k