Deploy AI compliance agents for controls testing, risk assessments, policy management, and audits with evidence-backed accuracy. Backed by NEA.
About the role
You will build AI systems designed to outperform the world's leading experts in Governance, Risk, and Compliance. Not research. Not prototypes. Production systems with a fanatical focus on accuracy, explainability, and responsible design. You will own the AI-native products that set a new global standard for GRC. We use an in-person work model and offer relocation assistance.
What they're looking for
- 4-8 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
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
More about this role
Every enterprise spends millions on Governance, Risk, and Compliance. It's one of the most critical — and most painful — parts of running a business. The industry has been dominated by legacy platforms with notoriously low NPS scores for decades. It's completely ripe for disruption.
Zania is building agentic AI for GRC to solve this problem. We're building intelligent agents that execute complex risk and compliance workflows with full explainability — not dashboards, not copilots, but agents that do the work. We've found exceptional product-market fit and are scaling fast.
Dream Customers: FAANG companies, Big 4 firms, and a portfolio of the world's most notable enterprises.
Tier 1 Backing: Series A led by NEA, with Anthropic and Menlo Ventures. $18M raised to build a generational company.
World-Class Team: AI and security leaders from Airbnb, Microsoft, Bain, Deloitte, PwC, Brex, and Instacart.
Pioneering Technology: Our engineers and GRC experts work at the absolute forefront of applied AI, building agentic systems that will define the future of compliance.
Hyper-Growth: 10x ARR growth in the last year.
You will build AI systems designed to outperform the world's leading experts...
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