Senior AI Platform Engineer — Build Reliable AI Tooling

Vanta; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Parental leave

Remote work stipend

Health & wellness stipend

401(k) matching

Flexible PTO

11 company-paid holidays

Job summary

Vanta seeks a Senior Software Engineer, AI Platform to build SDKs, APIs, and infrastructure for AI features and agentic workflows. You will implement durable execution for long-running tasks, advance the agent harness runtime, and create evaluation tools to measure improvements.

You will partner with product teams to prototype solutions, enhance model integrations, and ensure reliable, secure handling of customer data as you scale platform capabilities across teams.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals and backend experience.
• Hands-on experience shipping LLM-powered products or agentic workflows.
• Experience with durable execution or workflow orchestration platforms.
• Familiarity with agent harnesses and related frameworks.
• Practical evaluation ability: define success and diagnose failures.
• Strong product judgment and clear cross-team communication.

Responsibilities

• Build shared SDKs, APIs, and infrastructure for AI features and workflows.
• Integrate durable execution infrastructure for long-running agent workflows.
• Evolve the agent harness runtime, including context management and orchestration.
• Develop evaluation and debugging tools to turn failures into improvements.
• Improve model integrations, retrieval, and context delivery for better AI behavior.
• Own platform capabilities through rollout, reliability, and secure data handling.
• Collaborate with product teams to prototype solutions and drive adoption.

Skills

Software engineering

LLM-powered products

Workflow orchestration

Agent harnesses

Evaluation & diagnostics

Product judgment

Ownership & communication

AI workflow fluency

Job description

Vanta seeks a Senior Software Engineer, AI Platform to build SDKs, APIs, and infrastructure for AI features and agentic workflows. You will implement durable execution for long-running tasks, advance the agent harness runtime, and create evaluation tools to measure improvements.

You will partner with product teams to prototype solutions, enhance model integrations, and ensure reliable, secure handling of customer data as you scale platform capabilities across teams.