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As a Compliance Engineer, you'll manage compliance programs, oversee audits, automate workflows, and interact with customers to uphold security standards like SOC 2 and ISO 27001.
About us
PhysicsX is a deep-tech company with roots in numerical physics and Formula One, dedicated to accelerating hardware innovation at the speed of software.
We are building an AI-driven simulation software stack for engineering and manufacturing across advanced industries. By enabling high-fidelity, multi-physics simulation through AI inference across the entire engineering lifecycle, PhysicsX unlocks new levels of optimization and automation in design, manufacturing, and operations — empowering engineers to push the boundaries of possibility. Our customers include leading innovators in Aerospace & Defense, Materials, Energy, Semiconductors, and Automotive.
The Role
As a Compliance Engineer, you will be building and operationalizing our compliance program and overseeing the day-to-day implementation of controls, helping us pass audits, and scaling our governance processes in a fast-paced SaaS environment. You’ll own the systems, tools, and automation workflows that allow us to meet and maintain standards like SOC 2 and ISO 27001, without slowing down the business.
Key skills:
- Experience with implementing one or more security automation platforms (e.g. Thoropass, Vanta, Drata, Secureframe)
- Experience with automating SOC 2 compliance
- Experience with interacting with corporate customers in a business-to-business setting
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Experience interacting with auditors
What you will do
- Design and manage GRC tools, evidence collection workflows, and vendor risk processes
- Support responses to customer security assessments and RFPs
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align security with product, legal, and customer trust requirements
- Track, measure, and report on control effectiveness and risk posture
- Lead and manage audits, internal readiness assessments, and third-party risk processes
- Automate and operationalize the compliance roadmap (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001)
- For new compliance standards identify gaps and help drive
What you bring to the table
- 8+ years in compliance roles
- A systems-thinking mindset and a drive to eliminate manual, repetitive compliance tasks.
- Experience building compliance programs that scale with speed and minimal overhead.
- Proven experience implementing or supporting compliance frameworks such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001
- Hands-on experience with GRC platforms and automating compliance workflows.
- Excellent communication and documentation skills.
Nice to Have Skills
- Experience deploying and scaling GRC tooling in early-stage environments
- Familiarity with customer trust programs and security questionnaire automation
- Experience with AI compliance and governance
We value diversity and are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of sex, race, religion, ethnicity, nationality, disability, age, sexual orientation or gender identity. We strongly encourage individuals from groups traditionally underrepresented in tech to apply. To help make a change, we sponsor bright women from disadvantaged backgrounds through their university degrees in science and mathematics.
We collect diversity and inclusion data solely for the purpose of monitoring the effectiveness of our equal opportunities policies and ensuring compliance with UK employment and equality legislation. This information is confidential, used only in aggregate form, and will not influence the outcome of your application.
Top Skills
Drata
Grc Tools
Iso 27001
Secureframe)
Security Automation Platforms (Thoropass
Soc 2
Vanta
PhysicsX London, England Office
Victoria House 1 Leonard Circus, London, United Kingdom, EC2A 4DQ
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