AI Product Engineer for Restaurant Ops & Prototyping

Ordernised; Nottingham; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Ordernised seeks a software engineer to prototype useful AI assistance for restaurant teams. You will connect model capabilities to real user problems, test usefulness, and build the surrounding product experience.

The role involves conventional software engineering, evaluation design and cost awareness, ensuring actions like pricing or publishing remain subject to user review rather than silent automated changes.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering skills in TypeScript and Python.
• Hands-on experience building an application with model APIs or retrieval components.
• Ability to evaluate model output systematically.
• Understanding of API reliability, validation and secure handling of customer information.
• Product judgement about where automation is useful and where user review is necessary.

Responsibilities

• Build prototypes and production-quality interfaces around carefully scoped AI use cases.
• Design structured inputs and outputs with validation and sensible fallback behaviour.
• Create evaluation datasets and compare usefulness, accuracy, latency and cost.
• Implement retrieval with tenant-aware access controls and source traceability.
• Protect sensitive information through minimisation, redaction and appropriate retention choices.
• Give users clear review and correction steps before publishing generated content.
• Work with product and support teams to identify failure patterns and improve the experience.

Skills

TypeScript

Python

Model APIs

Evaluation practices

Secure data handling

Tools

APIs

Retrieval systems

Job description

Ordernised seeks a software engineer to prototype useful AI assistance for restaurant teams. You will connect model capabilities to real user problems, test usefulness, and build the surrounding product experience.

The role involves conventional software engineering, evaluation design and cost awareness, ensuring actions like pricing or publishing remain subject to user review rather than silent automated changes.