Senior AI Governance Analyst

Groq•Worth, IL

3d•$154,300 - $208,700

About The Position

Groq is seeking a Senior AI Governance Analyst to run AI governance operations across its inference products and hosted models. The role brings the EU AI Act, emerging AI regulations, and customer AI requirements into product, contract, and design reviews before launch, ensuring evidence is available for customers and auditors. The role owns operational readiness; Legal remains responsible for legal determinations. The analyst maintains AI obligations and model inventories, runs design-stage governance reviews, handles customer AI due diligence, tracks regulatory developments, and reports governance posture and risks to security leadership. The role may also prepare Groq's AI management system for ISO/IEC 42001 certification if leadership approves.

Requirements

At least 5 years of experience in technology risk, compliance, or privacy, including at least 2 years of hands-on AI governance or responsible AI work.
Working knowledge of the EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, and ISO/IEC 42001, with experience translating them into controls, review checklists, and audit evidence.
Experience running pre-launch AI risk or impact assessments with engineering and product teams, documenting decisions to an audit-ready standard.
Technical fluency in the machine learning lifecycle, including training, fine-tuning, evaluation, and inference serving, sufficient to engage credibly with engineers.
Experience responding to customer AI due diligence and partnering with Legal on contract terms, with sound judgment about which questions should be handled by Legal.

Nice To Haves

Experience with GRC tooling.
IAPP AIGP or equivalent certification.

Responsibilities

Maintain Groq's AI obligations library, covering the EU AI Act, emerging AI laws, customer AI commitments, and model licence conditions; map obligations to controls and owners and document an operational position for each requirement. Legal retains responsibility for legal determinations, including Groq's role under each law.
Run design-stage AI governance reviews for new models, features, sites, and contract terms, assessing applicability, risk, safeguards, and launch conditions, and documenting each decision.
Maintain an inventory of models Groq serves, including providers, licence terms, intended uses, data handling, and applicable controls.
Own responses to customer AI questionnaires and AI sections of security reviews, and build a reusable answer library with Legal and Product.
Track AI regulatory developments, assess operational impacts ahead of effective dates, and report AI governance posture and open risks to security leadership monthly.
Prepare the AI management system for ISO/IEC 42001 certification if leadership approves it.