Senior AI Platform Engineer - Trustworthy AI Tools

Royper Royco LLC; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical benefits

Parental leave

Job summary

Vanta is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the AI Platform to build and operate the shared SDKs, APIs, and infrastructure powering our AI features and agentic workflows. You will integrate durable execution for long-running agent pipelines, including checkpointing, retries, and human-in-the-loop steps, and advance the runtime for tool calling and context management.

You will develop evaluation and debugging tools to turn production failures into measurable improvements, enhance model

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building and operating backend services, APIs, or developer platforms.
• Hands-on experience shipping LLM-powered products or agentic workflows and understanding their failure modes.
• Experience with durable execution or workflow orchestration platforms and designing for idempotency, retries, and long-running state.
• Familiarity with agent harnesses and frameworks, including tool design, context management, subagents, and their tradeoffs.
• Practical evaluation experience: defining success, diagnosing failures, and measuring outcomes.
• Product judgment: aligning platform decisions with developer needs and customer outcomes.
• Ownership, curiosity, and clear communication across teams in a rapidly changing technical environment.
• Uses AI in day-to-day work to amplify skills and ensure high quality outputs.

Responsibilities

• Build shared SDKs, APIs, and infrastructure for AI features and agentic workflows.
• Integrate durable execution infrastructure for long-running agent workflows, including checkpointing, retries, human-in-the-loop steps, and recovery from partial failures.
• Evolve the agent harness, the runtime for tool calling, context management, memory, and model orchestration.
• Develop evaluation and debugging tools that turn production failures into measurable improvements and regression coverage.
• Improve model integrations, retrieval, and context delivery to support accurate, useful AI behavior.
• Own platform capabilities through rollout and operation, including reliability, observability, performance, and secure handling of customer data.
• Partner with product teams to prototype solutions, identify common needs, and drive adoption of reusable platform capabilities.

Skills

Software engineering fundamentals

Backend services

APIs

Developer platforms

LLM-powered workflows

Agentic workflows

Durable execution

Evaluation & debugging

Product-minded

Cross-team collaboration

Job description

Vanta is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the AI Platform to build and operate the shared SDKs, APIs, and infrastructure powering our AI features and agentic workflows. You will integrate durable execution for long-running agent pipelines, including checkpointing, retries, and human-in-the-loop steps, and advance the runtime for tool calling and context management.

You will develop evaluation and debugging tools to turn production failures into measurable improvements, enhance model