Today, CertiK supports thousands of enterprise clients and Web3 projects globally, with a distributed international team spanning North America, Asia, and Europe. The company is backed by leading investors including Coatue, Goldman Sachs, Insight Partners, and Sequoia Capital, and has been recognized by organizations such as the World Economic Forum and CB Insights for its contributions to blockchain security innovation.
About You
You are a detail-oriented self-starter with a strong interest in regulatory compliance, digital assets, and AI. You are comfortable researching unfamiliar regulatory topics, organizing complex information, and producing clear first drafts. You are eager to learn how licensing applications and compliance reviews work in practice and can support both structured audit requests and fast-changing client-facing needs.
About the Role
You will support the Engineering team in regulatory research, licensing analysis, AI output review, and client-deliverable preparation. You will work with client-facing teams, compliance reviewers, and Engineering to organize regulatory knowledge, prepare initial drafts, and convert recurring compliance work into reusable mappings, templates, and workflows. All material regulatory conclusions and client deliverables will be reviewed by an experienced compliance professional.
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.
- Support the maintenance of 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.
- Support coordination and request tracking across client-facing teams, compliance reviewers, and Engineering.
- Escalate unclear regulatory interpretations and unsupported conclusions to experienced reviewers.
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, particularly 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.
Skills Required
- Current enrollment in or recent graduation from law, finance, accounting, risk management, public policy, business, computer science, or 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
- Role must be performed outside the United States (candidates working from within the U.S. cannot be considered)
- Professional Chinese proficiency
- Interest in digital-asset regulation, financial compliance, licensing, or AI-assisted compliance workflows
- Familiarity with digital-asset regulation, VASP licensing, or similar frameworks
- Previous internship, coursework, or project experience in compliance, law, audit, fintech, digital assets, or regulatory research
- Basic understanding of LLM limitations, hallucination risk, source traceability, and human-in-the-loop review
What We Do
Founded in 2018 by professors of Yale University and Columbia University, CertiK is a pioneer in blockchain security, utilizing best-in-class AI technology to secure and monitor blockchain protocols and smart contracts. CertiK’s mission is to secure the cyber world. Starting with blockchain, CertiK applies cutting-edge innovations from academia into enterprise, enabling mission-critical applications to be built with security and correctness. CertiK is one of the fastest growing and most trusted companies in blockchain security and has become a true market leader. To date, we have collectively worked with over 1300 enterprise clients, helped secure over $90 billion worth of digital assets, and detected over 23,000 vulnerabilities in blockchain code. Our clients include leading projects such as Aave, Polygon, Binance Smart Chain, Terra, Yearn, and Chiliz. Our Q1 2021 revenues have more than quadrupled the revenue of the full 2020 year. Since Q1 2020, our team size has more than doubled, and this rate of growth will continue in 2021, creating a highly effective, remote-friendly culture with talents located worldwide. CertiK just raised over $60 million in Series B and B+ funding rounds in 2021. Our investors include top VCs like Tiger Global, Coatue Management, Shunwei Capital and Hillhouse Capital as well as industry leaders like Coinbase Ventures and Binance.
