Senior AI Engineer, Agent Harness

Overview

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.

As a Senior AI Engineer, you will own the end-to-end design, implementation, and evolution of AI-driven features across the Drata platform.

• 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; develop agentic workflows that combine retrieval, tool use, structured reasoning, and human oversight; 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:
  Architect 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.

• Experience:
  
  5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience; 2+ years specifically in ML/AI engineering
• Programming
  
  Languages:
  
  Proficiency in Python;
  Type Script 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

• 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

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.

At Drata, our people are our strongest advantage—and we prove it with support that exceeds industry standards. Our total rewards package is designed to power your well-being, accelerate your growth, and keep your work-life balance thriving. Explore how we invest in your Life at Drata.

• Shared Success:
  We provide stock equity to ensure that as the company grows, you share directly in that success. Equity gives every employee a sense of ownership and the opportunity to celebrate our wins together—because your contributions don’t just support our progress; they help drive our collective success.
• Health & Wellness:
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