Senior Software Engineer, AI Product

Vanta is a company dedicated to helping businesses earn and prove trust through continuous security monitoring. As a Senior Applied AI Engineer, you will be instrumental in shaping Vanta's AI offerings, collaborating with a multidisciplinary team to integrate AI into the product and enhance customer compliance and risk management.

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. You’ll work with other product engineers across Vanta to understand how AI systems can accelerate product adoption at Vanta
• 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
• 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
• 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. While you bring strong opinions, you prioritize building a platform that meets users where they are