Description
As a Senior Applied AI Engineer at Vanta, you will play a crucial role in shaping Vanta's AI offerings, setting technical strategy, and leading projects that leverage AI to deliver smarter, faster outcomes for customers.
You will be part of a team integrating AI into the Vanta product, working alongside a multidisciplinary group of product engineers, machine learning engineers, product managers, designers, and security and compliance experts to implement, scale, and maintain AI-enabled product experiences.
In this role, you'll build products that enable Vanta's customers to leverage AI to accelerate their journey towards compliance, managing risk, and earning trust.
Responsibilities:
- Work cross-functionally to design and implement AI-powered features to deliver customer value and integrate LLMs with Vanta's existing products and systems.
- Instrument evaluations, guardrails, and monitoring, and review customer usage to continually improve quality.
- Collaborate with AI Platform engineers shaping foundational AI systems and tooling that accelerate product teams.
- Make pragmatic tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation.
- Mentor engineers, champion good technical and product instincts, and model a collaborative, high-ownership engineering culture.
Requirements:
- At least 7 years of industry experience as a software engineer.
- Experience shipping LLM-backed products and experience with prompting, RAG, and/or agent frameworks.
- Experience designing, building, and scaling full-stack applications, including backend systems, APIs, and frontend interfaces.
- Familiarity with TypeScript, React, and Node.js, or a willingness to learn.
- Experience improving AI systems, creating eval sets, and driving quality hill-climbing.
- Experience mentoring other engineers and collaborating with product and design.
- Experience working at rapidly scaling startups and large companies.
Benefits:
- Industry-competitive salary and equity.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- 16 weeks fully-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.