Drata
Senior AI Engineer
Remote - US · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$192k-$260kDetected 4 days ago
TypeScriptPythonSnowflakeVector DatabasesRESTMachine LearningLLMsRAGAgentic AIResearchCollaborationProblem Solving
About the role
- Drata is advancing the frontier of compliance automation by integrating intelligent AI capabilities into its platform.
- This role focuses on solving complex, real-world problems with agentic AI, LLMs, and intelligent reasoning systems, including automating questionnaire answering and other compliance-related workflows.
- You will work on creating generalizable AI solutions that can be applied across multiple products and domains, collaborating with cross-functional teams to bring cutting-edge research into production-ready systems.
Responsibilities
- Build Agentic & Intelligent AI Systems
- Design and implement LLM-powered systems capable of multi-step reasoning, evidence grounding, and decision support in high-trust domains.
- Develop agentic workflows that combine retrieval, tool use, structured reasoning, and human oversight.
- Create interactive AI experiences that allow users to engage naturally with complex compliance and risk data.
- Build AI systems that reason over structured and unstructured data to support regulatory interpretation, control alignment, and evidence validation.
- Optimize for latency, cost, reliability, and evaluation in real-world enterprise workloads.
- Partner with platform, security, product teams, and other application development teams with diverse skill sets to operationalize AI safely and effectively.
Nice to have
- Experience in compliance, security, risk, or audit domains.
- Familiarity with Snowflake-based analytics, knowledge graphs, or enterprise data platforms.
- Experience partnering with non-technical stakeholders such as compliance or GRC teams.
- This role defines how AI is responsibly embedded into a trust-critical enterprise platform.
- Establish foundational agentic AI capabilities that power multiple present and future product experiences.
- Set the technical and ethical standard for applying modern AI in regulated, high-stakes environments.
- Explore how we invest in your Life at Drata https://drata.com/about/life-at-drata?utm_source=chatgpt.com.
Compensation
- This role will receive a competitive base salary, benefits, and/or stock, typically in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
- The applicable salary range for each US-based role is based on where the employee works and is aligned to one of 3 tiers based on the cost of labor for that geographic area.
Benefits
- We provide stock equity to ensure that as the company grows, you share directly in that success.
- Equity gives every employee a sense of ownership and the opportunity to celebrate our wins together-because your contributions don't just support our progress; they help drive our collective success.
- We want to support you in life's most important moments, so we offer a paid Parental Leave policy, after six months of employment.
- Employees also receive access to Kindbody fertility and family-building benefits and dedicated leave specialists who help guide you through the entire process.
- Drata offers a flexible vacation policy, paid holidays, and other perks to recharge.
Company info
- Hear the Voice of the Team https://drata.com/about/life-at-drata: Explore our "Life at Drata" page for employee testimonials on our collaborative and the growth opportunities available.
- Experience the Impact https://www.greatplacetowork.com/certified-company/7044563: See why we are consistently recognized on Fortune's Best Workplaces lists.
- LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/drata/posts/?feedView=all - follow us for company updates, employee stories, and career news.
- Enable customers to derive accurate, explainable insights from complex compliance and security data.
- A comprehensive suite of financial benefits, including a 401(k) plan, company-paid life and disability insurance, tax-advantaged spending accounts, and a range of discounted voluntary offerings to help you customize and strengthen your overall financial position.
- Ensure AI outputs are traceable, explainable, and auditable, meeting the expectations of enterprise customers and auditors.
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