Applied AI Engineer

Empire State Realty Trust is hiring an Applied AI Engineer I to support, maintain, and enhance its AI-enabled enterprise applications. The role contributes to production AI software, including LLM, RAG, agent, and automation features, while developing engineering skills with guidance from senior engineers.

Responsibilities:

• Support software design, development, tests, and deployment under senior guidance, and help build applications that incorporate large language models and other AI capabilities
• Support retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workflows, such as document ingestion, chunking, embeddings, indexing, and retrieval
• Help develop AI agents, agent tools, and tool-calling workflows, and convert approved prototypes into production-ready features under senior guidance
• Implement small, well-defined features and components under close guidance, with code review by senior engineers
• Learn the architecture and codebase of AI applications, such as model integrations, RAG pipelines, agent workflows, evaluation systems, and observability, through structured orientation, documentation, and work with experienced engineers
• Write unit and integration tests and help develop automated tests and application monitoring
• Learn and apply safeguards for data privacy, access control, and responsible AI practices
• Help build APIs, backend services, and data processing workflows that connect AI solutions with internal systems, with support for data ingestion and extract, transform, and load (ETL) processes
• Write clean, well-documented code, use Git for version control, participate in peer code reviews, and follow the team’s continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) practices
• Maintain technical documentation, communicate progress and blockers clearly, and collaborate with internal teams, vendors, and business stakeholders in an agile environment