Vanta aims to help businesses earn and prove trust by continuously monitoring and verifying security, empowering companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. The Senior AI Applied Engineer will shape Vanta's AI offerings, improve systems, and set technical strategy for the ML/AI architecture to accelerate AI innovations.
Requirements
- You have knowledge in designing, developing, and deploying applications leveraging LLM models and systems, with a strong focus on Prompt Engineering, Fine Tuning, RAG implementation and Agentic frameworks
- You have experience designing, building, and scaling full-stack applications, including backend systems, APIs, and frontend interfaces
- You understand how to improve ML systems, creating eval sets, and driving quality hill-climbing
- You are comfortable operating up and down the stack: frontend, API, backend, and database
Responsibilities
- Team up with product engineering teams to design and implement AI-powered features to deliver customer value and integrate LLM models with the existing products and systems
- Design, build, and improve AI infrastructure and tooling to unblock product strategy
- Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation
- Set an example for effective, collaborative engineering culture, and help mentor junior team members
- implement, scale, and maintain data pipelines that accelerate AI innovations
- build solid infrastructure foundations and high-leverage developer tools that empower Vanta’s engineers to create and enhance high-quality AI products efficiently
Other
- At least 7 years of industry experience as a software engineer
- 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.
- While you bring strong opinions, you prioritize building a platform that meets users where they are
- Set an example for effective, collaborative engineering culture, and help mentor junior team members
