Cyber & AI Risk Analyst

Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more.

Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with our institutional-grade APIs. This includes broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totalling over 10 million brokerage accounts.

Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. We're deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community, continuously enhancing our award-winning, developer-friendly API and the robust infrastructure behind it.

Alpaca is proudly backed by $400 million in funding from top-tier global investors including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Opera Tech Ventures, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Unbound, Peak XV, Elefund, and Y Combinator.

We're a dynamic team of 400+ globally distributed members who thrive working from our favorite places around the world, with teammates spanning the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond!

We're searching for passionate individuals eager to contribute to Alpaca's rapid growth. If you align with our core values—Stay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountable—and are ready to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.

As a Cyber & AI Risk Analyst, you will play a critical role in strengthening Alpaca’s security, compliance, and AI risk posture across the organization. Working closely with the Cyber GRC Lead, you will support the identification, assessment, and documentation of cybersecurity and AI-related risks that impact our infrastructure, products, trading systems, and internal operations.

You will contribute to the design and execution of our risk management framework across traditional cyber domains (cloud security, infrastructure, application security, third-party risk, regulatory compliance) while also helping establish foundational governance controls for AI systems, models, and AI-enabled product features.

This role sits at the intersection of cybersecurity, emerging AI governance, regulatory expectations, and financial services risk management. You’ll collaborate closely with Engineering, Product, Legal, Compliance, and IT teams to ensure Alpaca remains resilient, compliant, and forward-looking in how we manage both Cyber and AI risk.

We’re looking for someone curious, organized, and eager to grow. If you enjoy learning how technical systems work, translating risk into clear language, and building structured programs from the group up - then this role is for you. Prior GRC experience is a plus, but not required, we’re happy to invest in the right candidate.

• Support the execution of Alpaca’s cybersecurity risk management program

• Conduct cyber risk assessments across cloud infrastructure , APIs, trading systems, and internal platforms

• Assist in identifying, documenting, and evaluating AI-related risks (model risk, data privacy, bias, explainability, adversarial threats, model misuse)

• Help develop and maintain AI governance controls aligned with evolving regulatory expectations such as the EU AI Act

• Perform third-party/vendor security and AI risk assessments

• Contribute to control testing across frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, CSA Star, NIST