Sr Engineer - Ai Strategy And Digital Automation

Position Overview

Position Overview: The primary responsibility of the Sr Engineer – AI is to play a pivotal role in identifying, developing, and deploying cutting-edge AI solutions across our organization. This position offers the unique opportunity to work on a variety of projects, integrating cutting-edge technologies into our business. Our AI Strategy and Digital Automation Team is at the forefront of exploring emerging technologies and developing groundbreaking solutions that enhance our services, improve customer experience, and drive our business forward.

The successful candidate will be a fast, clear, and independent thinker who is curious about how things work, metrics and numbers savvy, analytical, and has demonstrated leadership ability. They should see the big picture/whole system and execute at the grass-roots level to rapidly demonstrate impact and value to the organization, thrive in a fast-paced, customer-centric, and ever-changing environment. This position is classified as exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act and Nevada state law.

It is paid on a salary basis and is not eligible for overtime. All duties are to be performed in accordance with departmental and The Venetian Resort’s policies, practices, and procedures.

• Architect and develop autonomous agentic AI solutions using frameworks like Google Agent Development Kit (ADK), Vertex AI Agent Engine, Lang Chain, or OpenAI Agents SDK.
• Develop scalable, asynchronous APIs using FastAPI and integrate Model Context Protocol (MCP) to standardize secure connections between agents and external enterprise data and tools.
• Implement hybrid retrieval pipelines using Vertex AI Vector Search for semantic lookup and Knowledge/Context Graphs (e.g., Neo4j) to manage long-term user memory and complex relationship mapping.
• Build ingestion pipelines for internal enterprise data (Big Query, Enterprise Knowledge Base, Unstructured Docs) to ground agents in internal organizational knowledge.
• Deploy and manage scalable agent architectures on Google Cloud (using Vertex AI Agent Engine or Cloud Run), ensuring secure integrations and reliable recovery workflows.

• Implement full-stack observability (tracing, logging, dashboards) to visualize agent reasoning, debug state issues, and monitor production health.
• Build robust evaluation frameworks ("Evals") and benchmark orchestration tools to track accuracy, minimize hallucinations, and ensure systematic quality improvement ("hill climbing").
• Design and optimize advanced system prompts (Chain-of-Thought, ReAct) for Gemini models, utilizing Vertex AI Prompt Management for versioning and regression testing.
• Conduct research and analysis on emerging AI technology trends, providing insights and recommendations to senior management.
• Design and maintain high-quality prompt strategies for robustness and reliability.
• Safety is an essential function of this job.
• Consistent and regular attendance is an essential function of this job.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

All The Venetian Resort Team Members are expected to conduct and carry themselves in a professional manner at all times. Team Members are required to observe the Company’s standards, work requirements and rules of conduct.

• 21 years of age.
• Proof of authorization/eligibility to work in the United States.
• Master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 3+ years of experience building and shipping production software; 2+ years specifically working with LLMs or AI APIs.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Nevada Gaming Control Board registration as well as any other certification or license, as required by law or policy.
• Expert-level proficiency in Python, with strong familiarity in asynchronous programming (asyncio) and typing.
• Deep hands-on experience with the Google Cloud AI stack (Vertex AI, Gemini, Big Query).
• Proficiency with vector databases (Vertex AI Vector Search, Pinecone) and agent orchestration frameworks (Lang Graph, Google ADK).
• Experience designing Context…