Representative projects

• Build an AI agent that analyzes thousands of regulatory documents and internal controls, identifying compliance gaps with higher accuracy than a team of human experts.
• Develop an explainable AI system for risk assessment, allowing auditors and executives to understand and trust the AI's reasoning on high-stakes decisions.
• Build an advanced RAG pipeline over a massive corpus of unstructured company data to produce precise, verifiable assessments against complex compliance requirements.
• Partner with GRC subject matter experts to create ground-truth datasets for tasks like third-party risk evaluation, then fine-tune models that become the industry standard.

What you have

• 5-8 years in an applied AI or machine learning engineering role.
• Proven product sense. You've shipped reliable, production-scale ML products. You know how to use offline evaluation and online experimentation to achieve high-performance results.
• Hands-on applied AI expertise. Direct experience building with LLMs — fine-tuning, RAG, and agentic systems. Not theoretical. You've put these into production.
• High agency. You take full ownership of outcomes, move with a bias for action, and have a relentless drive for world-class accuracy. You see constraints as design problems, not blockers.
• Strong communication. You can work closely with security and GRC research counterparts and articulate technical tradeoffs clearly.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 4+ years of experience in applied AI, machine learning engineering, or a related technical role
• Demonstrated hands-on experience building and deploying LLM-based systems (fine-tuning, RAG, or agentic workflows) in a production environment
• Strong written and verbal communication skills — you will collaborate closely with GRC subject matter experts and must translate technical tradeoffs clearly to non-technical stakeholders

Compensation & benefits

• Competitive salary + significant equity
• Flexible PTO
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Meals and snacks in the office
• Relocation and immigration support

Zania is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.

Compensation: $180K - $230K