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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.\nAI Platform builds the shared foundations that help teams across Vanta ship trustworthy AI products. We own SDKs, model integrations, agent infrastructure, and tools for evaluating and debugging AI behavior. Our work spans quality and evaluations, data and context, and the foundations behind Vanta’s agentic experiences.\nWe partner closely with AI product engineers to solve real customer problems, turn successful experiments into reusable capabilities, and operate them reliably in production.\nHow does the team impact the business?\nWe help teams deliver AI capabilities faster, improve customer outcomes, and manage reliability, latency, and cost across Vanta’s AI products.\nWhat gaps will this hire fill?\nThis hire will expand our ability to turn applied AI experiments into reliable, reusable platform capabilities. They will combine hands-on implementation with evaluation, operational ownership, and close product-team partnership.\nWhy join this team?\nYour work can improve AI experiences across Vanta. Challenges include reliable agent execution, useful retrieval and context, reproducible evaluations, and tools that help engineers investigate and fix AI failures.\nGrowth trajectory\nGrow from owning a platform capability end to end to leading broader technical initiatives, mentoring engineers, and shaping capabilities adopted across teams.\nVisit our Vanta Engineering Blog to learn more about what our team is working on! \nWhat you’ll do as a Senior Software Engineer, AI Platform at Vanta:\nBuild shared SDKs, APIs, and infrastructure for AI features and agentic workflows.\n\nIntegrate durable execution infrastructure for long-running agent workflows, including checkpointing, retries, human-in-the-loop steps, and recovery from partial failures.\n\nEvolve our agent harness, the runtime for tool calling, context management, memory, and model orchestration.\n\nDevelop evaluation and debugging tools that turn production failures into measurable improvements and regression coverage.\n\nImprove model integrations, retrieval, and context delivery to support accurate, useful AI behavior.\n\nOwn platform capabilities through rollout and operation, including reliability, observability, performance, and secure handling of customer data.\n\nPartner with product teams to prototype solutions, identify common needs, and drive adoption of reusable platform capabilities.\n\nHow to be successful in this role:\nStrong software engineering fundamentals and experience building and operating backend services, APIs, or developer platforms.\n\nHands-on experience shipping LLM-powered products or agentic workflows and understanding their failure modes.\n\nExperience with durable execution or workflow orchestration platforms and designing for idempotency, retries, and long-running state.\n\nFamiliarity with agent harnesses and frameworks, including tool design, context management, subagents, and their tradeoffs.\n\nPractical evaluation experience: defining success, diagnosing failures, and measuring whether changes improve outcomes.\n\nProduct judgment: connecting platform decisions to developer needs and customer outcomes.\n\nOwnership, curiosity, and clear communication across teams in a rapidly changing technical environment.\n\nUses AI in day-to-day work to amplify their skills and strengthen their outcomes, applying it across routine workflows, actively building fluency through experimentation, and exercising sound judgment to ensure AI-assisted work meets a high quality bar.\n\nWhat you can expect as a Vanta’n:\nIndustry-competitive salary and equity\n\nComprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% of employee-only benefit premiums covered for most medical plans\n\n16 weeks paid Parental Leave for all new parents\n\nHealth & wellness stipend\n\nRemote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend\n\nCommuter benefits for team members who report to the SF and NYC office\n\nFamily planning benefits\n\nMatching 401(k) contribution with immediate vesting\n\nFlexible PTO policy, plus 80 hours of Sick Time\n\n11 company-paid holidays\n\nVirtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events!\n\nOffices in SF, NYC, London, Dublin, Tel Aviv, and Sydney\n\nTo provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar-stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors and may vary based on candidate location, skills, depth of work experience, and relevant licenses/credentials.\nAt 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.\nAbout Vanta\nWe 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.\nNow more than ever, making security continuous-not just a point-in-time check- is essential. 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