Senior AI Engineer

Drata•San Francisco, CA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Drata is advancing the frontier of compliance automation by integrating intelligent AI capabilities into its platform. We are seeking a Senior AI Engineer to help design, build, and scale robust, high-impact AI systems that improve operational efficiency, enhance decision-making, and support trust-critical enterprise workflows. 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. As a Senior AI Engineer, you will own the end-to-end design, implementation, and evolution of AI-driven systems embedded directly into Drata’s core platform. Your work will focus on building generalizable, reusable AI capabilities rather than one-off features, enabling multiple product surfaces and workflows across compliance and security.

Requirements

7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience; 2+ years specifically in ML/AI engineering.
Proficiency in Python; TypeScript experience is a plus, especially for production AI system integrations.
Familiarity with vector databases (Pinecone, Chroma, FAISS, etc.) and RAG system design.
Proven experience building and shipping LLM-based applications in production, including embeddings, RAG, agent frameworks, prompt engineering, and evaluation.
Track record of taking AI systems from concept to production, designing scalable, maintainable solutions.
Ability to decompose complex tasks into agentic workflows and reason over high-stakes, structured, and unstructured data.
Experience working cross-functionally with product, compliance, security, engineering teams, and partnering with other application development teams with diverse skill sets.

Nice To Haves

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.

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.
Automated Reasoning Over Regulations & Evidence
Build AI systems that reason over structured and unstructured data to support regulatory interpretation, control alignment, and evidence validation.
Ensure AI outputs are traceable, explainable, and auditable, meeting the expectations of enterprise customers and auditors.
Production-Grade AI Architecture
Architect and deploy scalable LLM + retrieval + agent systems in production environments.
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.
Responsible & Trustworthy AI
Embed human-in-the-loop workflows, confidence thresholds, and safety guardrails into AI systems.
Ensure privacy-preserving data handling, robust failure modes, and transparent behavior aligned with Drata’s trust principles.

Benefits

Shared Success: 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.
Health & Wellness: Up to 100% employer-paid premiums for medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their dependents, along with comprehensive wellness benefits and healthcare concierge services designed to support your needs beyond traditional insurance.
Financial Well-being: 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.
Family Support: Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave (after six months of employment), along with a robust suite of family-support resources. Employees also receive access to Kindbody fertility and family-building benefits and dedicated leave specialists who help guide you through the entire process.
Growth & Development: Generous annual stipends for both professional and personal development, empowering you to invest in your continued growth. You’ll also have access to a wide range of internal learning opportunities, ensuring you can build new skills, deepen your expertise, and advance your career with confidence.
Time Off & Flexibility: We believe that to do your best work, you should get the time you need for rest, rejuvenation and recovery. Drata offers a flexible vacation policy, paid holidays, and other perks to recharge.

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