Description
You will build the intelligence layer at Vanta, making the company's data useful by creating a single interpretive layer that reads across every source of truth.
The EPD Systems team is building infrastructure for Vanta's engineering, product, and design organisation to understand itself.
Responsibilities:
- Build the intelligence layer: a cross-source interpretive layer that reads across Vanta's sources of truth and makes them queryable and reasoned-over by EPD leadership, GTM, and beyond
- Define what to build: scope the problem yourself, make explicit tradeoffs about what to defer, and own the sequence of what gets built and when
- Ship working things yourself: prototypes, internal tools, agent workflows , using AI as part of how you work, not what you report on
- Understand the organisation: go to the teams whose decisions this layer will serve , GTM, G&A, EPD , and come back knowing what they can't answer today
- Catch and address AI-specific quality problems , reliability, cost, latency, drift, bad answers , before they cause damage
- Build on top of what the Signal Collection and EPD OS roles are constructing; understand what's trustworthy and what's coming
Requirements:
- You scope ambiguous problems yourself , you don't wait for the mandate to sharpen before you start. You're comfortable showing unpolished work, and you're honest about when to push ahead alone vs. pull in an engineer
- You've shipped real things with LLM tooling recently, and your approach has changed in the last six months
- You change behaviour across orgs you don't control , GTM, G&A , through what you build and how you communicate, not through authority
- You know what quality means when building with AI: reliability, cost, latency, edge cases, drift
- You find root causes rather than symptoms, and you think through second- and third-order effects before you make a change
Benefits:
- Industry-competitive salary and equity
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% of employee-only benefit premiums covered for most medical plans
- 16 weeks paid Parental Leave for all new parents
- Health & wellness stipend
- Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend
- Commuter benefits for team members who report to the SF and NYC office
- Family planning benefits
- Matching 401(k) contribution with immediate vesting
- Flexible PTO policy, plus 80 hours of Sick Time
- 11 company-paid holidays
- Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events!