AI-First Staff Engineer — End-to-End Platform, Full-Stack

Sauce; New York (NY); On-site; USD 160,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health, dental, vision insurance

Parental leave

Flexible work environment

Paid time off

Job summary

Sauce, a premier restaurant technology platform, seeks an AI-first engineer on our NYC team. You will own features end-to-end, from database to UI, shipping production-ready AI-driven capabilities that improve delivery and restaurant operations.

If you’ve launched AI products quickly and with real users, we want to talk. You’ll work on agents, RAG, tool-use, and production-grade model integration, collaborating with product and operations to turn real-world restaurant problems into shipped

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with 3+ years shipping production full-stack applications.
• Hands-on experience with LLM APIs and SDKs (OpenAI, Anthropic, or open models).
• Ownership mindset: design, build, deploy end-to-end in ambiguous problems.
• Public open-source projects or demos showing shipped work.
• AI-first by default and product-minded, focusing on user outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Take ambiguous product ideas from zero to shipped—design, build, deploy, and iterate largely on your own.
• Build AI-native features (agents, RAG, tool-use, structured outputs, evals) as core product, not demos.
• Own the full stack: frontend, backend, data, model integration, and cross-component glue.
• Establish feedback loops: evals, telemetry, fast iteration for reliable AI products.
• Make pragmatic build-vs-buy decisions and keep the team at the model frontier.
• Collaborate with product and operations to turn real restaurant problems into shipped solutions.
• Raise velocity and product taste across the team.

Skills

LLM APIs

Full-stack development

Open-source projects

AI-first mindset

Product-minded

Tools

TypeScript

Python

Web stack

Job description

Sauce, a premier restaurant technology platform, seeks an AI-first engineer on our NYC team. You will own features end-to-end, from database to UI, shipping production-ready AI-driven capabilities that improve delivery and restaurant operations.

If you’ve launched AI products quickly and with real users, we want to talk. You’ll work on agents, RAG, tool-use, and production-grade model integration, collaborating with product and operations to turn real-world restaurant problems into shipped