Founding Applied AI Engineer

Alldus; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary: $150k - $225k

Equity

Job summary

Alldus is assisting a rapidly growing AI startup in the hospitality sector in recruiting a Founding Applied AI Engineer in New York. The role will build end-to-end features spanning backend services, AI workflows, and customer-facing React applications, while enabling AI agents to operate with robust context handling, tool integration, and persistent state.

You will design APIs, data pipelines, and integrations across business systems, shaping architecture and roadmaps as the company scales.

Qualifications

• Strong technical expertise in LLM and agentic applications, backend/data systems, or React product development.
• Proficiency in Python or JavaScript/TypeScript, with willingness to work across both.
• Experience delivering production AI agents, including tool integration and context management.

Responsibilities

• Build and launch end-to-end product features across backend, AI workflows, and customer-facing React apps.
• Develop systems enabling AI agents to operate with context handling, tools, orchestration, and persistent state.
• Create APIs and data pipelines linking POS, accounting, payroll, and other systems.
• Convert invoices, recipes, supplier catalogs, and inventory into structured data.
• Design evaluations around customer workflows and diagnose model outputs and tool interactions.
• Strengthen agent reliability via error recovery and escalation processes.
• Use production results to guide model selection and improve cost efficiency.
• Engage with customers to translate feedback into product enhancements.
• Shape system architecture and engineering practices as the business grows.

Skills

LLM & agentic apps

Backend & data systems

React product development

Python/JS/TS

Production AI agents

Cloud platforms

Software engineering fundamentals

Product mindset

Data pipelines & SQL

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Our client, a rapidly growing AI startup in the hospitality sector, is hiring a Founding Applied AI Engineer to join their team in New York. The successful candidate will play a key role in developing the platform, delivering AI applications into production and leading technical decisions, while also helping define the product roadmap and broader business strategy.

Responsibilities

• Build and launch end-to-end product features, spanning backend services, AI workflows and customer-facing React applications.
• Develop the systems that enable AI agents to operate effectively, including context handling, tool execution, orchestration, persistent state and human approvals.
• Create APIs, integrations and data pipelines linking point-of-sale, accounting, payroll and other business systems.
• Convert invoices, recipes, supplier catalogues and inventory records into accurate, structured data.
• Design evaluations around real customer workflows and diagnose issues across model outputs and tool interactions.
• Strengthen agent reliability through effective error recovery and escalation processes.
• Use production results to guide model selection and improve accuracy, completion rates, response times and operating costs.
• Engage with customers to understand their operational needs and translate feedback into practical product enhancements.
• Help shape system architecture, product priorities and engineering practices as the business grows.

Skillset

• Strong technical expertise in LLM and agentic applications, backend and data systems, or React product development.
• Proficiency in Python or JavaScript/TypeScript, with a willingness to develop across both.
• Experience delivering production AI agents, including tool integration, context management, persistent state, error recovery and evaluations.
• An understanding of different AI models and providers, and how their strengths and limitations influence architecture and performance.
• Experience developing and operating cloud applications on AWS, GCP, Azure or similar platforms.
• A track record of building substantial software and explaining the technical decisions behind it; startup work, personal projects and open-source contributions are welcome.
• Experience building data pipelines and working with SQL or document databases to manage incomplete or inconsistent information.
• Strong engineering practices, including version control, maintainable code, effective testing and systematic debugging.
• A product-focused mindset, with the initiative to understand customer needs, challenge assumptions and take ownership of delivery.

Benefits

• Salary: $150k - $225k.
• Equity.