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AI Risk Jobs
AI risk roles identify, measure, and manage the risks that AI and machine-learning systems create across the enterprise.
AI risk roles bring discipline to everything that can go wrong when an organization relies on AI: model failure, bias, security, regulatory exposure, and the operational risk of automated decisions at scale. They build the AI risk register, set risk appetite, validate and monitor models, and feed the enterprise risk picture. The discipline draws on model risk management, where banking's SR 11-7 has long set the bar, and extends it to machine-learning and generative systems.
As models multiply, AI risk has become one of the most directly transferable skill sets in the field, the bridge between quantitative work and governance.
AI Risk Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
What does an AI risk role do?
Identifies, measures, and manages the risks AI systems create, model failure, bias, security, and regulatory exposure, by building risk registers, validating models, and monitoring them in production.
Is AI risk related to model risk management?
Yes. AI risk builds on model risk management practice, including the SR 11-7 standard from banking, and extends it to machine-learning and generative-AI models.
Open AI Risk Jobs (52)
Financial Model Risk Management Lead
Underwriting/Credit Model Risk Senior Manager - Machine Learning
Senior Associate, Risk Analytics
Compliance Analyst - AI Governance
Senior Manager Risk and Controls
AI Governance Specialist
Senior Market Risk Manager
Global Head of Data & AI Governance & Oversight, SVP
AI Security Engineer (GRC)
Staff Software Engineer, AI Governance
Senior Privacy Counsel
VP, AI & Data Assurance
Quantitative Analytics Manager, Affirm Bank Model Governance
Director IT, Internal Audit
VP, Credit Risk Model Validation
Assistant VP, Credit Risk Model Validation
Senior Product Manager, AI Risk Strategy (Buy/Sell Crypto)
AI Auditor
Head of Privacy
Senior Privacy and AI Counsel
Staff Program Manager, Compliance
Senior AI Governance Counsel
AI Governance and Evaluation Manager
Head of Security & AI Governance
Cyber AI Governance and Privacy Senior Consultant
Senior Manager - Data & AI Governance
Principal Program Manager, Cyber Security - Frontier AI Models
Senior Manager, Data & AI Governance
Director AI Governance & Business Integration
Audit Project Manager - Finance Organization
VP, Risk Data & Analytics
Risk Manager, AI & GenAI Model Risk
Principal, AI Governance
Counsel, AI Risk & Compliance
AI Governance Advisor
Cybersecurity AI Risk and Governance Director
AVP, Automated Controls (AI Risk Focus)
Director, AI Governance Attorney
Manager of Risk & Governance (AI Safety)
Data and AI Governance Lead, Computing Services
AI Governance Analyst
Director, Risk Model Validation
Director, Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC)
Model Risk Management Lead, Machine Learning
(Senior) Principal Solutions Engineer-AI and Data Governance
Vice President, Responsible AI
Director, Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC)
Model Risk Senior Analyst - Validation (AI, Cyber, Technology)
Senior Model Risk Analyst
Research Scientist, Frontier Risk Evaluations
Risk Operations
Senior Associate - Model Validation and AI Governance
AI Risk Jobs jobs: what the market looks like right now
A snapshot built from the 52 AI Risk Jobs roles currently on this page.
What these roles pay by level
| Level | Median midpoint | Postings |
|---|---|---|
| Mid-level | $145k | 6 |
| Senior / lead / manager | $151k | 9 |
| Director | $221k | 6 |
How these figures were calculated, and sources
Primary source: our own board. Every figure above is the median midpoint of the salary ranges published in the live postings on this page. Nothing is estimated, modelled, or carried over from a previous month. It is recalculated each time the board refreshes.
What is included. Only postings that publish a salary range. Hourly, weekly and monthly rates are annualised (2,080 hours, 52 weeks, 12 months). Ranges below $20,000 a year are excluded as data-entry placeholders. A seniority band is shown only when at least five postings support it; executive / c-suite is present on this page but below that threshold, so no median is published for that band.
What this is not. These are advertised ranges, not accepted offers. Advertised ranges tend to run wider than what is actually paid, and roles that do not publish a range are missing from the calculation entirely, which can bias the result upward.
For an independent benchmark, compare against the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics for SOC 13-1041 — Compliance Officers, published annually at bls.gov/oes. BLS reports actual wages across all employers rather than advertised ranges, so its medians normally sit below job-board figures.
Where the work is
- Work mode: 17 remote, 7 hybrid, 28 on-site or unstated.
- Seniority mix: senior (26), mid (11), executive (8), director (7)
- Employers hiring more than one: Affirm (4), UOB Group (3), SCAN Health Plan (2), Mercury (2), Clover Health (2)
Skills these postings ask for
- AI inventory and use-case intake
- model risk and impact assessment
- ISO/IEC 42001 and NIST AI RMF implementation
- EU AI Act readiness
- AI vendor and third-party assessment
How to get an AI assurance job — the full career guide for this field: entry routes, transferable backgrounds, certifications and salary by level.
Certifications that come up most
None of these are universally required, but they appear often enough in AI Risk Jobs postings to be worth knowing: AIGP, CIPP/US, CISA, CRISC. The certification academy covers what each one actually tests and who it is for.
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