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 end-to-end ML/AI 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 high-leverage developer tools that empower Vanta's engineers to create and enhance high-quality AI products efficiently.

Visit our Vanta Engineering Blog to learn more about what our team is working on

Please note we are only able to hire in Alberta, Ontario, and British Columbia.

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

• 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

• 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 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

• 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

What you can expect as a Vantan in Canada:

• Industry-competitive salary and equity

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

• Pension contribution

• 16 weeks fully paid parental leave for all new parents

• Health & wellness stipend

• Remote workspace stipend

• Flexible work hours and location

• 21 days of PTO and 80 hours of sick leave

• 8 to 11 company paid holidays (dependent on your territory of residence)

• Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events

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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 high-profile data breaches. Online security was only becoming more important, but we knew firsthand how hard it could be for fast-growing 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 world's leading Trust Management Platform, our vision remains unchanged.

Now more than ever, making security continuous—not just a point-in-time check— is essential. Thousands of companies rely on Vanta to build, maintain and demonstrate their trust— all in a way that's real-time and transparent.