Staff AI Engineer (NYC)

The role

You will research, build, and ship AI-powered product capabilities. You will establish AI as a foundational layer of the product 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 and unsupervised learning
• Choose, build, train, and evaluate ML models and AI methods
• Translate business problems into AI solutions
• Own the architecture of agentic chat across the 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 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
• Strong programming skills in Python
• Proficiency in SQL
• Experience across the modeling stack including 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
• Ability to translate business problems into data solutions
• Proven track record of shipping user-facing features with measurable impact
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Benefits

• Competitive base salary and bonus
• Equity
• Healthcare covering medical, dental and vision
• 401(k)
• Catered lunch every day in our NYC office
• 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.