Staff AI Engineer (Remote)

The role

You will research, build, and ship AI-powered product capabilities to improve user workflows and accelerate insights. You will establish AI as a foundational layer using machine learning, agentic systems, LLMs, and scalable AI infrastructure.

What you will do

• Research and apply modern ML and AI methods including AI agents, LLMs, RAG, embeddings, supervised learning, and unsupervised learning.
• Choose, build, train, and evaluate ML models and AI methods.
• Prioritize impact and speed when developing and shipping AI-powered solutions.
• Translate business problems into AI solutions.
• Own the architecture of agentic chat across the Vendelux platform.
• Establish patterns for how agents interact with internal data, external tools, and user workflows.
• Architect multi-tenant AI infrastructure.
• Own observability, evaluation frameworks, and guardrails.
• Work closely with product and application engineering teams.
• Serve as a thought partner to leadership on the AI roadmap.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of professional experience in machine learning, data science, or closely adjacent work.
• Experience shipping ML and LLM-powered or agentic features to production users including prompt engineering, RAG, evaluation and LLM deployment.
• Experience owning the method, including which model or approach to use, training and evaluating it.
• Ability to operate independently and set technical direction.
• Strong programming skills in Python.
• Proficiency in SQL.
• Experience across the modeling stack such as PyTorch or TensorFlow, scikit-learn, experimentation and feature engineering.
• Experience with modern AI frameworks such as HuggingFace and LangChain.
• Experience with data pipelines using Airflow, Dagster, or equivalent.
• Solid understanding of cloud-based infrastructure, including AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business problems into data solutions.
• Proven track record of shipping user-facing features with measurable impact.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary and bonus
• Equity
• Healthcare covering medical, dental and vision
• 401(k)
• Unlimited PTO
• Two company-wide shutdowns during the July 4th week and the Christmas – New Year's week

About the company

Vendelux is a Series B SaaS company building a platform for event marketing intelligence. The company provides AI-driven insights to help companies optimize their event strategy.