Chief AI & Agentic Engineering

OpenTalent; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

Artefact, a Paris-headquartered data and AI consulting firm recently expanding in the US with NYC and LA offices, seeks a senior leader to drive AI/ML strategy and delivery in client engagements. You will lead a team of engineers and managers, shaping architecture, context engineering, and agent harnesses, while collaborating with stakeholders and defending scalable, cost-efficient production AI.

Join us to turn data into business impact across the value chain and help build a world-class AI

Responsibilities

• AI & ML Solution Architecture: Leading the design, build, and optimization of production AI systems — classical machine learning models, LLM applications, and agentic systems.
• Context Engineering: Defining and standardizing context engineering practices — prompt and system design, RAG architectures, vector stores, memory management, and tool/function calling.
• Harness Engineering: Directing the build of robust agent harnesses — orchestration layers, evaluation frameworks, guardrails, and observability.

Job description

Artefact, a Paris-headquartered data and AI consulting firm recently expanding in the US with NYC and LA offices, seeks a senior leader to drive AI/ML strategy and delivery in client engagements. You will lead a team of engineers and managers, shaping architecture, context engineering, and agent harnesses, while collaborating with stakeholders and defending scalable, cost-efficient production AI.

Join us to turn data into business impact across the value chain and help build a world-class AI