2 months ago
Base Salary
$250k - $300k/yr
Responsibilities
- Research and apply modern ML and AI methods, including agents, LLMs, RAG, embeddings, supervised learning, and unsupervised learning, to build product capabilities.
- Choose, build, train, and evaluate models and AI methods while balancing research and engineering tradeoffs.
- Translate business problems into AI solutions that improve workflows, accelerate insights, and deliver measurable value.
- Own the architecture of agentic chat across the Vendelux platform.
- Establish patterns for agents to interact with internal data, external tools, and user workflows.
- Architect multi-tenant AI infrastructure meeting performance, latency, and cost requirements.
- Own observability, evaluation frameworks, and guardrails for production ML and AI features.
- Partner with product and application engineering teams to translate business requirements into AI systems.
- Advise leadership on the AI roadmap and product differentiation through AI.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional experience in machine learning, data science, or closely adjacent work, with progressive depth in software engineering or data engineering.
- Experience shipping ML- and LLM-powered or agentic features to production users, including prompt engineering, RAG, evaluation, and LLM deployment.
- Experience selecting, training, and evaluating models and defending technical choices against alternatives.
- Ability to operate independently, set technical direction, and determine what is worth building.
- Strong programming skills in Python and proficiency in SQL.
- Experience with PyTorch or TensorFlow, scikit-learn, experimentation, and feature engineering.
- Experience with HuggingFace, LangChain, and data pipelines using Airflow, Dagster, or equivalent.
- Understanding of cloud infrastructure such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Track record of translating business problems into data solutions and shipping user-facing features with measurable impact.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to collaborate across data, engineering, and product teams.
- Candidates from non-traditional backgrounds are welcome even if they do not meet every listed requirement.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary and bonus, plus equity.
- Medical, dental, and vision healthcare coverage.
- 401(k).
- Catered lunch every day in the NYC office.
- Unlimited PTO plus company-wide shutdowns during the July 4th week and the Christmas–New Year's week.
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring four days per week in the NYC office depending on location.
Tech Stack
Apache AirflowAWSAzureDatadogDjangoGoogle Cloud PlatformMySQLNode.jsPostgreSQLPythonPyTorchReactscikit-learnSnowflakeSQLTensorFlowTypeScript
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About Vendelux
Vendelux builds a SaaS platform that turns B2B events into a measurable revenue channel for marketing and sales teams, with AI-driven insights across hundreds of thousands of conferences and trade shows. Its products include event intelligence for planning and ROI analysis and Vendelux Meetings, which identifies high-value attendees and books 1:1 meetings. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in New York, the privately held, Series B company sources first-party data via partnerships with event organizers.