Staff AI Engineer

Responsibilities

• Research and apply modern AI methods, including AI agents, LLMs, RAG, embeddings, supervised learning, and unsupervised learning, to build product capabilities.
• Translate business problems into AI solutions that improve workflows, accelerate insights, and drive measurable business value.
• Own the architecture and integration of agentic chat capabilities throughout the Vendelux platform.
• Design systems that enable AI agents to reason, take action, and surface insights across the product.
• Establish patterns for agents to interact with internal data, external tools, and user workflows.
• Architect multi-tenant AI infrastructure for the performance, latency, and cost needs of a growing B2B SaaS product.
• Own observability, evaluation frameworks, and guardrails for production-grade AI features.
• Collaborate with product, data science, and application engineering teams to translate requirements into AI systems.
• Advise leadership on the AI roadmap and AI-driven product differentiation.

Requirements

• At least 4 years of professional software engineering or data engineering experience, including at least 3 years building AI/ML-driven products.
• Strong programming skills in Python and proficiency in SQL.
• Experience with modern AI frameworks such as HuggingFace and LangChain.
• Experience designing data pipelines using Airflow, Dagster, or equivalent tools.
• Understanding of cloud infrastructure including AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Production experience applying LLMs and generative AI, including prompt engineering, RAG, and LLM deployment.
• Strong understanding of data science and machine learning techniques and the ability to balance research and engineering tradeoffs.
• Track record of shipping user-facing features with measurable impact.
• Ability to translate business problems into data solutions that drive business value.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to collaborate across data, engineering, and product teams.
• Candidates from non-traditional backgrounds are welcome, and not all listed requirements are mandatory.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary and bonus.
• Medical, dental, and vision healthcare coverage.
• Work from the company’s NYC headquarters.
• Unlimited paid time off plus company-wide shutdowns during the July 4th week and the Christmas–New Year’s week.