Compliance Engineer Intern

CertiK is a Web3 security platform providing blockchain and smart-contract audits, formal verification, compliance and risk intelligence, monitoring, and validator services.

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Maintainer signals as of 9/2/2026

New York, New York, United States
About CertiK

CertiK is a New York-based Web3 security company founded in December 2017 by professors from Yale and Columbia. Its current offerings include smart-contract and blockchain audits, formal verification, penetration testing, DLT security, KYC and regulatory compliance services, SkyInsights risk analytics, Skynet security intelligence, validator operations, AI Auditor, CertiK Hunt, and Skylens.

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About the Role

Support the Engineering team with regulatory research, licensing analysis, AI output review, compliance mappings, evidence checklists, and preparation of client deliverables. The role must be performed outside the United States.

Requirements

  • Current enrollment in or recent graduation from a program in law, finance, accounting, risk management, public policy, business, computer science, or a related field
  • Strong research, analytical, and structured-writing skills
  • Strong attention to detail when reviewing regulatory sources, citations, and customer materials
  • Ability to organize complex information into clear checklists, summaries, presentations, and reports
  • Ability to manage multiple assignments and meet deadlines
  • Strong written and spoken English; professional Chinese proficiency is preferred but not required
  • Interest in digital-asset regulation, financial compliance, licensing, or AI-assisted compliance workflows
  • Familiarity with digital-asset regulation, VASP licensing, or similar regulatory frameworks is preferred
  • Previous internship, coursework, or project experience in compliance, law, audit, fintech, digital assets, or regulatory research is preferred
  • Basic understanding of LLM limitations, hallucination risk, source traceability, and human-in-the-loop review is preferred
  • Must be performed outside the United States

Responsibilities

  • Research and summarize regulatory frameworks and licensing requirements
  • Support licensing and regulatory-readiness projects, including applicability research, gap analysis, evidence requests, policy review, and application-document preparation
  • Organize regulatory requirements into structured modules, evidence categories, checklists, and mappings
  • Review AI outputs for factual consistency, source traceability, missing information, and formatting issues
  • Prepare initial drafts of compliance analyses, evidence guidance, client reports, pitch-deck content, and review materials
  • Maintain regulation-to-service mappings, evidence checklists, and submission-material reuse mappings
  • Organize customer-provided materials and identify potential evidence gaps for reviewer confirmation
  • Record reviewer feedback and update templates, evaluation cases, and compliance knowledge assets
  • Coordinate request tracking across client-facing teams, compliance reviewers, and Engineering
  • Escalate unclear regulatory interpretations and unsupported conclusions to experienced reviewers
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