Senior Applied AI Engineer - AI Systems & Retrieval

Drata; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Drata is seeking a Senior Applied AI Engineer to drive the quality and effectiveness of our AI systems through rigorous experimentation, evaluation, and applied research. This is a research-focused role emphasizing experimentation and rigor over production engineering.

You'll own the science behind how Drata's AI products retrieve, reason, and respond—and you'll work closely with AI and Software Engineers to turn validated approaches into production-ready systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and evaluate information access and reasoning strategies across RAG, agents, and classic ML.
• Prototype GenAI workflows mapping and reasoning over compliance objects.
• Explore ML and probabilistic approaches where GenAI isn’t best.
• Build and maintain evaluation frameworks with golden datasets.
• Implement and tune ranking and reranking systems.
• Run experiments to validate approaches.

Job description

Drata is seeking a Senior Applied AI Engineer to drive the quality and effectiveness of our AI systems through rigorous experimentation, evaluation, and applied research. This is a research-focused role emphasizing experimentation and rigor over production engineering.

You'll own the science behind how Drata's AI products retrieve, reason, and respond—and you'll work closely with AI and Software Engineers to turn validated approaches into production-ready systems.