Founding Applied AI Engineer — Equity & Platform Lead

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

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.