Senior Software Engineer, AI Platform

As a senior AI platform engineer at Vanta, you will play a crucial role in shaping Vanta’s AI offerings, improving our AI systems, and setting technical strategy for our end to end ML/AI architecture. You’ll form the core AI team around which many AI applications will be built and shipped. 

At Vanta, our mission is to secure the internet and protect consumer data. 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 platform engineer at Vanta, you will be working alongside a multidisciplinary group of product engineers, PMs, and security and compliance experts to implement, scale, and maintain ML pipelines to enable and and accelerate AI innovations. In this role, you’ll build solid infrastructure foundations and high-leveraged developer tools that enable vanta’s product engineers to quickly create and improve high quality AI products. 

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

• Work closely with our users, primarily 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, such as offline and online evaluation and data pipeline for model training

• Design, build, and improve unified AI services such as search 

• 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 experience building ML systems from ground up, shipping ML solutions to production, and owning the full ML development lifecycle

• Have experience with improving developer experience & resolving ML infrastructure challenges related to scale, reliability, and performance 

• Experience working at rapidly scaling startups and large companies, especially with environments that prioritize a bias for action

• Strong coding and software engineering skills 

• You are a culture carrier and take initiatives to work closely with product engineers and meet them where they are 

What you can expect as a Vantan:

• Industry-competitive compensation

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

• 16 weeks fully-paid parental Leave for all new parents

• Health & wellness and remote workplace stipends

• 401(k) …