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Governance, risk, and compliance jobs in San Diego: defense and naval systems, biotech and life sciences, healthcare and senior services, telecom, and higher education.
Open GRC jobs in San Diego (5)
Contracts and Compliance Analyst
VP, Compliance & Risk
Government Information Specialist (Privacy/HIPPA)
Quality Assurance Specialist (Deployable)
Senior Data Governance & Responsible AI Lead
The San Diego GRC market
San Diego pairs one of the largest military and defense footprints in the country with a world-class biotech cluster, and both carry heavy governance, risk and compliance demand. The Navy presence and the defense contractors around it drive cleared security compliance, CMMC, NIST and FedRAMP work. The life sciences corridor in Torrey Pines and Sorrento Valley brings clinical research compliance, data governance and privacy. Large health systems and senior services organizations add HIPAA, healthcare compliance and enterprise risk roles, and the region's telecom and wireless base contributes product security and third-party risk work. California's CCPA and CPRA regime applies across all of it, so privacy fluency is close to a baseline requirement here.
Key sectors: defense and naval systems, biotech and life sciences, healthcare and senior services, telecom, and higher education. On the board now: 5 local and 0 remote-eligible jobs.
BLS put the 2024 median at $78,420. In 2026, market trackers show averages from roughly $99,000 to $120,000, with the top quartile above $160,000. Financial centers and senior governance roles sit at the top of that range.
Sources: BLS, 2024 median
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