Staff AI Software Engineer

Staff AI Software Engineer Our Mission & Values: At Drata, we help companies earn and keep the trust of their users, customers, partners, and prospects. We’re the proof layer that shows great companies deserve the trust they aim to build. We live our values every day. Built on Trust means consistency is everything. Act with Integrity by always doing the right thing. Being Customer-Obsessed keeps the people we serve at the center of our work. Competitive Fire drives us to push ourselves harder than anyone else. Diversity brings unique perspectives that lead to better solutions. Automation First ensures we save time and money by making efficiency a priority. Our Culture & Work Style 🚀 At Drata, we’re not just building software - we’re building a mindset. Everything we do springs from: - Be a Driver (Owner‑Operator Mentality): Own your work. Improve relentlessly. Deliver results. - Move at Drata Speed (Precision & Velocity): Fast decisions. Quick learning. Immediate impact. - Stay Mission-Driven (Customer‑Obsessed): Challenge assumptions. Deliver value. Stay hungry. If you thrive when you’re empowered, energized, and working with smart, mission-driven people where you’ll feel at home here. Why Join The Drata Team? The best way to understand the Driver’s Mindset is to see it in action. We’re an award-winning, mission-driven team of 600+ people worldwide, united by a culture that values trust, speed, and continuous growth. - See the Speed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QidTdkGwKMY Watch our CEO, Adam Markowitz, discuss the hyper-growth journey, from $0 to $100M ARR in just four years - Hear the Voice of the Team https://drata.com/about/life-at-drata: Explore our "Life at Drata" page for employee testimonials on our collaborative and the growth opportunities available. - Experience the Impact https://www.greatplacetowork.com/certified-company/7044563: See why we are consistently recognized on Fortune's Best Workplaces lists. - Connect with Us on Socials: LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/drata/posts/?feedView=all - follow us for company updates, employee stories, and career news. While we’re ideally looking for someone who can join us in a hybrid capacity from our San Francisco office, we know great talent isn’t limited by zip code. We’ll consider remote candidates across the U.S. who are a strong match for the role. Job Summary: At Drata, we’re rethinking how compliance gets done, and AI is a core part of that. We’re looking for a Staff AI Engineer to help shape how intelligent systems power trust-critical enterprise workflows. This isn’t a “build a feature and move on” role. You’ll help define how AI is architected across the company. You’ll make foundational decisions about what we build, how we measure quality, and where we invest. From early research to production deployment, you’ll own systems end-to-end, and your judgment will directly influence our technical direction. You’ll work at the intersection of LLMs, retrieval systems, agentic workflows, and real-world compliance challenges, partnering closely with product, platform, and security teams to build AI that’s powerful, reliable, and responsible. What you’ll Do: SHAPE THE ARCHITECTURE - Design and own production AI systems end-to-end (LLM pipelines, RAG, reranking, vector stores, orchestration). - Make thoughtful build/don’t-build decisions based on real data. - Evolve our AI stack over time, from model infrastructure to workflow orchestration to evaluation tooling. RAISE THE QUALITY BAR - Design evaluation systems that measure retrieval quality, reasoning accuracy, end-to-end performance. - Build tooling that helps the team iterate confidently and catch regressions early. - Define how we measure success across the platform. INVESTIGATE DEEPLY & DECIDE WITH EVIDENCE - Analyze production outputs to identify failure patterns and root causes. - Turn complex findings into clear technical recommendations. - Know when to push forward a ... (truncated, view full listing at source)