Senior AI Engineer, Agent Harness

Job Summary

Drata is advancing the frontier of compliance automation by integrating intelligent AI capabilities into its trust 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 in a compliance and security context.

What You'll Do

• Build Agentic & Intelligent AI Systems
• Design and implement LLM-powered systems capable of multi-step reasoning, evidence grounding, and decision support in high-stakes compliance environments
• 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 validation, and risk assessment
• Ensure AI outputs are traceable, explainable, and auditable, meeting the expectations of enterprise compliance teams
• Production-Grade AI Architecture
• Arcitect 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 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 values

What You'll Bring

• Experience: 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience; 2+ years specifically in ML/AI engineering
• Programming Languages: Proficiency in Python; TypeScript experience is a plus, especially for production AI system integration
• Retrieval & Vector Stores: Familiarity with vector databases (Pinecone, Chroma, FAISS, etc.) and RAG system design
• LLM & AI Systems: Proven experience building and shipping LLM-based applications in production, including embeddings, RAG, agent frameworks, prompt engineering
• Production Expertise: Track record of taking AI systems from concept to production, designing scalable, maintainable solutions
• Problem Solving: Ability to decompose complex tasks into agentic workflows and reason over high-stakes, structured, and unstructured data
• Collaboration: Experience working cross-functionally with product, compliance, security, and engineering teams

Bonus Qualifications

• 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

Impact

This role defines how AI is responsibly embedded into a trust-critical enterprise platform. Your work will: Establish foundational agentic AI capabilities that power multiple present and future product experiences Enable customers to derive accurate, explainable insights from complex compliance and security data Set the technical and ethical standard for applying modern AI in regulated, high-stakes environments

How We Support You

• Shared Success: We provide stock equity to ensure that as the company grows, you share directly in that 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: We want to support you in life's most important moments, so we offer a paid Parental Leave policy, after six months of employment. 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.

Compensation

The applicable salary range for this role is: $166,900 - $225,900. A variety of factors are considered when determining someone’s leveling and compensation–including a candidate’s professional background and experience. These ranges may be modified in the future and final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed above.