Senior Software Engineer, Applied AI

At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it.

As a Senior AI Applied engineer at Vanta, you will play a crucial role in shaping Vanta’s AI offerings, improving our systems, and setting technical strategy for our endtoend MLAI architecture. You’ll be part of the core AI team, working alongside a multidisciplinary group of product engineers, machine learning engineers, product managers, and security and compliance experts to implement, scale, and maintain data pipelines that accelerate AI innovations. In this role, you’ll build solid infrastructure foundations and highleverage developer tools that empower Vanta’s engineers to create and enhance highquality AI products efficiently.

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What you’ll do as an AI platform engineer at Vanta:

• Team up with product engineering teams to design and implement AIpowered features to deliver customer value and integrate LLM models with the existing products and systems

• Work closely with other engineers at Vanta to understand their pain points in AI development and identify opportunities for improvements

• 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

• How to be successful in this role:

  • At least 5 years of industry experience as a software engineer

  • 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 fullstack applications, including backend systems, APIs, and frontend interfaces

  • You understand how to improve ML systems, creating eval sets, and driving quality hillclimbing

  • You are comfortable operating up and down the stack: frontend, API, backend, and database

  • You have worked at rapidly scaling startups and large companies, especially with environments that prioritize a bias for action

  • You are actiondriven, 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

  • What you can expect as a Vantan:

    • Industrycompetitive compensation

    • 100% covered medical, dental, and vision benefits with dependents coverage

    • 16 weeks fullypaid parental Leave for all new parents

    • Health & wellness and remote workplace stipends

    • Family planning benefits through Carrot Fertility

    • 401(k) matching

    • Flexible work hours and location

    • Open PTO policy

    • 11 paid holidays in the US

    • Offices in SF, NYC, Dublin, and Sydney

    • To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all USbased job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similarstage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors and may vary based on candidate location, skills, depth of work experience, and relevant licensescredentials

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      At Vanta, we are committed to hiring diverse talent of different backgrounds and as such, it is important to us to provide an inclusive work environment for all. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender identity, age, religion, sexual orientation, veteran or disability status, or any other protected class. As an equal opportunity employer, we encourage and welcome people of all backgrounds to apply.

      About Vanta

      We started in 2018, in the wake of several highprofile data breaches. Online security was only becoming more important, but we knew firsthand how hard it could be for fastgrowing companies to invest the time and manpower it takes to build a solid security foundation. Vanta was inspired by a vision to restore trust in internet businesses by enabling companies to improve and prove their security. From our early days automating security monitoring for compliance standards like SOC 2, HIPAA and ISO 27001 to creating the worlds leading Trust Management Platform, our vision remains unchanged.

      Now more than ever, making security continuous—not just a pointintime check— is essential. Thousands of companies rely on Vanta to build, maintain and demonstrate their trust— all in a way thats realtime and transparent.