Vanta aims to help businesses earn and prove trust by continuously monitoring and verifying security, enabling companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. The Senior Applied AI Engineer will shape Vanta's AI offerings, set technical strategy, and lead projects to deliver smarter, faster outcomes for customers, helping them accelerate compliance, manage risk, and earn trust.
Requirements
- You’ve shipped LLM-backed products and have experience with prompting, RAG, and/or agent frameworks
- You have experience designing, building, and scaling full-stack applications, including backend systems, APIs, and frontend interfaces.
- You have familiarity with TypeScript, React, and Node.js, or a willingness to learn!
- You have experience improving AI systems, creating eval sets, and driving quality hill-climbing
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
Other
- At least 7 years of industry experience as a software engineer
- You have experience mentoring other engineers and collaborating with product and design
- You have worked at rapidly scaling startups and large companies, especially with environments that prioritize a bias for action
- You are action-driven, willing to roll up your sleeves and engage directly with users.
- You aren’t afraid to put on your product hat.
