Software Engineer, AI Product

Vanta

Senior Applied AI Engineer at Vanta shaping AI offerings. Collaborating to integrate AI for smarter compliance solutions.

Posted 6/8/2026full-timeRemote • 🇨🇦 CanadaSeniorLead💰 CA$215,000 - CA$260,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

JavaScriptNode.jsReactTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Work cross-functionally to design and implement AI-powered features to deliver customer value and integrate LLMs with Vanta’s existing products and systems. You’ll work with other product engineers across Vanta to understand how AI systems can accelerate product adoption at Vanta
Instrument evaluations, guardrails, and monitoring, and review customer usage to continually improve quality
Collaborate with AI Platform engineers shaping foundational AI systems and tooling that accelerate product teams
Make pragmatic tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation
Mentor engineers, champion good technical and product instincts, and model a collaborative, high-ownership engineering culture

Requirements

What you’ll need

At least 7 years of industry experience as a software engineer
You’ve shipped LLM-backed products and have experience with prompting, RAG, and/or agent frameworks
You have experience designing, building, and scaling full-stack applications, including backend systems, APIs, and frontend interfaces. You have familiarity with TypeScript, React, and Node.js, or a willingness to learn!
You have experience improving AI systems, creating eval sets, and driving quality hill-climbing
You have experience mentoring other engineers and collaborating with product and design
You have worked at rapidly scaling startups and large companies, especially with environments that prioritize a bias for action
You are action-driven, willing to roll up your sleeves and engage directly with users.

Benefits

Comp & perks

100% covered medical, dental, and vision benefits with dependents coverage
Pension contribution
16 weeks paid Parental Leave for all new parents
Health & wellness stipend
Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend
Flexible work hours and location
21 days of Vacation Time and 80 hours of Sick Leave
11 company-paid holidays
Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events!

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Hard Skills & Tools

AI-powered featuresLLMsfull-stack applicationsbackend systemsAPIsfrontend interfacesTypeScriptReactNode.jsquality hill-climbing

Soft Skills

mentoringcollaborationaction-drivenhigh-ownershipproduct instinctsuser engagementpragmatic tradeoffsbusiness prioritiesuser experiencesustainable technical foundation