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We’re looking for someone who understands both compliance and product management, someone who can turn regulatory workflows into scalable systems that help define how our AI agents reason, decide, and learn.\nBackground\nIf you’ve worked in compliance, you’ve seen it firsthand: the endless reviews, duplicate alerts, and outdated systems that make even simple controls take hours. The rules make sense; the systems don’t.\nSphinx is fixing that. We build AI analysts that work inside browsers and internal systems just like humans - automating AML, KYC, KYB, and transaction monitoring end-to-end.\nInstead of replacing judgment, our agents replicate it - learning from analyst feedback, explaining their reasoning, and improving over time. 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