Job Overview
Location
Remote
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Software Engineering
Date Posted
August 8, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • We’re a startup with big ambitions: to make estate planning modern, visual, and intelligent. Vanilla is the first AI-powered estate advisory platform, built by advisors, planners, and attorneys to transform how wealth is transferred across generations.
- • Our team brings together diverse subject matter expertise across estate planning, wealth management, and scaling SaaS startups. We’re distributed across the U.S., with a mix of fully remote and hybrid roles, and we embrace flexibility while staying closely connected.
- • As a Staff Software Engineer - AI Applications, you will work collaboratively with engineering and subject matter experts to find innovative and disruptive uses of AI to streamline (or replace) workflows.
- • You will be utilizing existing Large Language Models to build applied AI applications focused on producing high accuracy rates. Your software engineer skills will come into play here as you’ll take ownership in constructing services to ingest results.
- • You will work with product, and engineering teams and build models/services that can ingest data, extract key information and surface insights.
- • You can build tooling to support model training, evaluation, inference serving, monitoring and alerting.
- • You want to use the latest ML frameworks and open source tools to develop new model training pipelines.
- • You have direct experience with software engineering and are familiar with modern languages like Python, Javascript, Go, Rust
- • You have experience building microservices and understand the tradeoffs of the approach.
- • You can identify, extract, transform, and load data from disparate sources into a centralized system. You are able to normalize, cleanse, and validate this data.
- • You are able to design and implement schemas, optimize queries, and manage database performance.
- • You must be an effective self-organizer: prioritize tasks, manage resources, and communicate effectively with non-technical stakeholders.
- • You must be able to collaborate with engineers, subject matter experts, product managers, and designers to ensure the success of projects.
🎯 Requirements
- • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- • 8+ years relevant work experience.
- • Proficiency in modern programming languages such as Python or Javascript.
- • Experience with OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar for both chat and API interfaces.
- • Deep understanding of machine learning and AI technologies, including the ability to design, train, and implement machine learning models and use natural language processing techniques for automation.
🏖️ Benefits
- • Flexible paid time off policy and 10 company-wide paid holidays
- • Parental leave, 6 weeks for all full-time employees and up to 14 weeks for birthing parents
- • Medical, dental, and vision benefits coverage for employees and their families
- • 401K eligibility after one month of employment
- • Free estate planning documents
- • Budget for learning & development and home office setup
- • Paid parking or transit for hybrid and in office employees
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About Vanilla Forums Inc.
Vanilla provides open-source and SaaS community forum software that helps organizations create, manage and grow customer communities. The platform offers customizable discussion boards, moderation tools, analytics, single sign-on, integrations with CRM and support systems, and gamification features. It serves enterprises, gaming companies, and support teams seeking to reduce support costs, increase customer engagement, and gather product feedback through structured online conversations.
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