Description:

Vanta is seeking a Senior Applied Machine Learning Engineer to help shape its AI offerings and improve the performance of AI systems.
The role involves setting the technical strategy for end-to-end ML/AI architecture and forming the core AI team for building and shipping AI applications.
The AI team aims to revolutionize security and compliance programs by streamlining the Q&A process in security reviews and providing actionable insights based on business context.
Responsibilities include conceptualizing, designing, and evaluating AI/ML solutions, collecting and analyzing data to enhance AI system performance, and partnering with product teams to define strategies for AI offerings.
The engineer will work with other engineers to architect and implement scalable ML infrastructure, including data pipelines and LLM-specific pipelines.
The role also involves researching and applying state-of-the-art machine learning techniques to improve model performance and converting research outputs into production-grade software.

Requirements:

Candidates must be strong coders with experience in building ML systems from the ground up and shipping ML solutions to production.
Expertise in deploying and maintaining LLM-based applications in production is required, including knowledge of embeddings, RAG, Agent, prompt engineering, and fine-tuning.
A strong understanding of data preprocessing, feature engineering, model evaluation techniques, and quality hill-climbing is essential.
Strong written and verbal communication skills are necessary for success in this role.
Strong analytical skills are considered a plus.

Vanta offers industry-competitive compensation and a base pay range of $160,000 - $215,000 for this position.
Medical, dental, and vision benefits are 100% covered, including dependents coverage.
The company provides 16 weeks of fully-paid parental leave for all new parents.
Health & wellness and remote workplace stipends are available.
Family planning benefits are offered through Carrot Fertility.
Employees benefit from 401(k) matching and flexible work hours and locations.
An open PTO policy and 11 paid holidays in the US are included.
Vanta has offices in San Francisco, New York City, Dublin, and Sydney.