Zania
Applied AI Engineer
Palo Alto, CA
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 367 days ago
Machine LearningLLMsRAGAgentic AIA/B TestingResearchCommunicationInternal Audit
About the role
- We use an in-person work model and offer relocation assistance.
Responsibilities
- Build & fine-tune models. Fine-tune foundation models on proprietary data and implement novel techniques to achieve world-class accuracy on complex GRC tasks.
- Develop AI-native workflows. Build sophisticated, multi-step agentic workflows that automate complex GRC processes - from risk assessment to compliance monitoring to evidence collection.
- Drive innovation. Rapidly prototype, evaluate, and integrate state-of-the-art research (agents, RAG, new architectures) into reliable, production-grade features.
- Build an AI agent that analyzes thousands of regulatory documents and internal controls, identifying compliance gaps with higher accuracy than a team of human experts.
- Develop an explainable AI system for risk assessment, allowing auditors and executives to understand and trust the AI's reasoning on high-stakes decisions.
- Build an advanced RAG pipeline over a massive corpus of unstructured company data to produce precise, verifiable assessments against complex compliance requirements.
- Partner with GRC subject matter experts to create ground-truth datasets for tasks like third-party risk evaluation, then fine-tune models that become the industry standard.
- Hands-on applied AI expertise. Direct experience building with LLMs - fine-tuning, RAG, and agentic systems. Not theoretical. You've put these into production.
- High agency. You take full ownership of outcomes, move with a bias for action, and have a relentless drive for world-class accuracy. You see constraints as design problems, not blockers.
- Relocation and immigration support
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Our systems must be transparent, auditable, and fair.
- Proven product sense.
- You know how to use offline evaluation and online experimentation to achieve high-performance results.
Compensation
- Competitive salary + significant equity
Benefits
- Competitive Compensation & Equity.
- 3+ years in an applied AI or machine learning engineering role.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
Company info
- FAANG companies, Big 4 firms, and a portfolio of the world's most notable enterprises.
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