The internship involves analyzing regulatory requirements, optimizing compliance models, and collaborating with AI researchers to enhance regulatory guardrails.
About Alinia
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Key Responsibilities
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What We Offer
We are an early-stage AI startup on a mission to enable the safe and compliant deployment of AI Agents in regulated industries, worldwide, through our Regulatory Guardrails & Auditing platform. We ensure conversational AI agents adhere to companies’ business policies and regulations at scale, like Investment Guard.
We envision a future where compliance is encoded in any autonomous system, steered by human experts. The goal is to augment compliance experts’ capabilities, empowering them to become key enablers in the deployment of AI Agents in the most critical scenarios at scale.
Co-founders Ari and Carlos come from leading ML platform at Twitter and LLM governance at Hugging Face.
If you’re passionate about applying your regulatory and compliance expertise for the development of cutting-edge AI technology — and thrive in fast-moving, high-ownership environments — we’d love to hear from you. We are looking for individuals in early career stages who are mission-driven and dare to embrace the challenge.
In this role, your work will help translate complex regulatory requirements into specialized models optimized for compliance detection, ensuring customers’ AI systems meet the highest regulatory and policy standards.
You will play a key role in ensuring our Regulatory Guardrails address the right vertical compliance requirements and excel in accuracy and robustness. This role requires knowledge of vertical regulatory frameworks (e.g. financial), combined with a strong aptitude to work closely with our applied AI researchers and engineers.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct preliminary analysis of candidate Regulatory Guards to prioritize based on identified requirements from regulatory research, customer feedback, and market direction.
- Data annotation to evaluate and optimize our models.
- Stress testing of our existing regulatory guards.
- Collaborate with applied researchers to design and refine regulation-specific datasets for model optimization.
- Law Degree or equivalent
- Master in Law, LLM, or equivalent
- Proven academic path in regulated industries (e.g. fintech, health) and/or AI.
- Proficiency in English
- Strong interest in Large Language Models and AI Agents. Tech-curious and product-savvy. We don’t need a coder, but someone passionate about technical conversations, tech implementation and innovation.
- Proactiveness, attitude, ownership.
- Strong communication skills to collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary teams.
- LLM/Master/PhD in Financial Law or related field
- LLM/Master/PhD in legal aspects of AI or related field
- AI-savvy with a solid understanding of AI development processes, data annotation, and regulatory technology tools (e.g. Legal Databases; AI Legal co-pilots).
- Proficiency in Spanish
- (Proficiency in French is a nice to have)
- Competitive compensation during internship period
- Remote or hybrid work environment, with co-working spaces in New York, Barcelona and Valencia.
- Opportunity to work at the cutting edge of AI safety and compliance in regulated environments.
- Great working ambience, we want everyone to enjoy the ride!
- Cool swag ;)
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