Staff AI Engineer, Drata
$180-275k
More information about location
Security and compliance automation
Job no longer available
Security and compliance automation
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$180-275k
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To help companies earn and keep the trust of their users, customers, partners, and prospects.
Role
Who you are
- Our ideal candidate will bring a strong background in building and improving AI applications, and experience designing workflows to solve customer problems
- Entrepreneurial mindset - previous experience as an early joiner in a technology startup or evidence that you are scrappy with a "get-it-done" attitude. You thrive in an ambiguous environment and you enjoy leading people towards a common goal. You understand the main focus for engineers at a product-led startup is delivering value to customers
- Strategic infrastructure and architectural vision. Be able to learn the product & business context to inform tradeoff decisions regarding work scoping, technical debt, and strategic investment. Knowing where to cut corners and where to excel
- 3+ years of experience in shipping applied AI/ML products. (In either Python or TS)
- At least 1 year of experience in building LLM-based products
- Advanced expertise of prompt engineering, RAG pipelines for LLM applications, evaluation & improvement of LLM applications over time, experience taking a data-driven approach to building & iterating on LLM-powered applications
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field with a focus on machine learning or artificial intelligence
Desirable
- Experience at a B2B SaaS product-led startup. Even better: product in cybersecurity/compliance realm
- Experience with NLP / NLU fundamentals (e.g. text tokenization / embedding, text classification, traditional machine learning model development experience, especially for natural language-based models
- Experience with our modern web application tech stack - TypeScript, Node.js, React, Gemini/Vertex (Google Cloud Platform), Postgres, Cypress, Jest
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Principal AI Engineer to join our growing team. In this role, you will lead the vision and implementation for AI at SafeBase
- We believe AI is central to the future of B2B trust, and is a critical pillar of our strategy
- Tech Lead our AI product offerings - an LLM agent for answering trust-related questions
- Design, implement, and deploy AI pipelines for our AI-based product offerings
- Stay on the edge of AI innovation and apply industry best practices (e.g., RAG) to pipeline to keep innovating ahead of the market
- Continuously experiment to improve our pipeline and run quantitative evaluations to make our AI product into something our customers can't live without
- Work closely with the founders and leadership as our first AI Engineer and help shape the future of our AI solutions
- Help grow our platform to thousands of SaaS vendors, like OpenAI, LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Datadog
Our take
Traditional manual compliance workflows are tedious, error-prone and extremely hard to scale, which presents special difficulties for rapidly growing companies in maintaining strong data security. Drata enables companies to manage compliance easily through automatic monitoring and evidence collection, building a single picture of risk across the company.
The company has several competitors offering compliance automation solutions, including Vanta and Secureframe, but Drata is unique in automating the tasks itself rather than generating notifications for teams to action. This approach has garnered Drata a client base of thousands of companies, including bambooHR, Notion and Abnormal.
Drata has grown swiftly since its 2020 founding and acquired trust automation company Safebase in 2025 for a staggering $250 million. Iconiq Growth and GGV Capital have led Drata's impressive funding rounds in previous years, but its aim now is to expand its presence. Through its acquisition of SafeBase, Drata has also gained its customers, among which are tech leaders such as Palantir, LinkedIn and OpenAI, which will undoubtedly help it maintain its leading edge.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
64% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Dec 2022
$200m
SERIES C
Nov 2021
$100m
SERIES B
Total funding: $328.2m
Company benefits
- Healthcare: 90-100% paid premiums for medical, dental, and vision plans for employee and dependents + on demand health care concierge
- HSA, FSA, & DCFSA: Pre-tax savings plans for healthcare and dependent care, with up to a $600 annual employer contribution to the HSA plan (if enrolled in HSA medical plan)
- 100% paid short and long term disability plus life + AD&D benefits
- Learning & Development: $500 annually towards professional development opportunities + $250 annually towards personal development opportunities
- Flexible Time Off: Flexible vacation policy for strong, fully charged batteries
- 16 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: An inclusive policy to ensure you have time with your newborn, newly adopted, or foster child (available after six months of employment)
- Work Remotely: Flexible hours and work from home + $1,000 annually to cover necessary business related items for your home office
- 401K: Reach your financial goals while reducing your taxes
Company HQ
University City, San Diego, CA
Leadership
Adam Markowitz
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously VP & GM at Instructure. Founder & former CEO of Portfolium. Has worked in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
Daniel Marashlian
(Co-Founder & CTO)Former Technical Advisory Board Member at the National University. Previously Senior Director Of Engineering at Instructure. Co-founded Portfolium and RapidEngage.
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