CookUnity

CookUnity

AI Native Engineer

New York, New York, United States

Sponsorship not specified$10k-$100kDetected 1 day ago
TypeScriptPythonKotlinFull-Stack DevelopmentGitSQLPostgreSQLSnowflakeAWSTemporaldbtLLMsAI OrchestrationJiraProcurementManual TestingLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationNetSuite

About the role

  • Every team at CookUnity has workflows that could be 10-100x more effective with the right automation.
  • You'll embed directly with the cross functional AI team as a dedicated AI engineer.
  • Your job isn't to write code faster with AI.

Responsibilities

  • Discover and Design
  • Identify where automation can drive step-change outcomes: processing orders of magnitude more inputs, collapsing multi-day processes into hours, or enabling work that simply wasn't feasible before.
  • Design the future-state workflow: where an agent acts autonomously, where a deterministic app handles the logic, where humans review, what context is needed, and what guardrails keep it safe.
  • Build production workflows and internal tools that the team relies on daily, not just demos.
  • Create human-in-the-loop interfaces where they matter. Knowing when to automate fully and when to keep a human checkpoint is a core skill.
  • Write clean, maintainable code. You'll use AI tools to move fast, but you own the quality of what ships.
  • Own your agents and apps in production. Monitor performance, track KPIs, and explain outcomes to stakeholders.
  • Manage evals and regression testing after model updates, prompt changes, or upstream data shifts.
  • The values and behaviors that guide how we operate, collaborate, and scale.

Requirements

  • Demonstrated ability to map a business process and redesign it with automation.
  • You can wire up business systems without waiting for someone else to do it.
  • You know when an LLM-powered agent is the right call and when a well-built internal app or script is better.
  • Hands-on experience with
  • You can talk about what shipped last month and what it changes.
  • Hands-on experience with LLMs in production, not just prompting, but building reliable systems: structured outputs, eval frameworks, error handling, human-in-the-loop design.

Compensation

  • All final pay rates will be determined by candidates experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data.
  • Pay Range for this position
  • $130,000 - $190,000 USD

Benefits

  • 🩺 Health Insurance coverage
  • access to fitness subsidies to build a healthy lifestyle
  • ⛱ Unlimited PTO
  • 🐣 Paid family leave
  • 🕯 Compassionate Leave: 3-5 days each time the need arises
  • 🧘🏽‍♀️ Wellness
  • We believe great leadership starts with alignment on vision, values, and ways of working.
  • All final pay rates will be determined by candidates experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data.

Company info

  • Food has lost its soul to modern convenience.
  • And with it, it has lost the power to nourish, inspire, and connect us.
  • So in 2018, CookUnity was founded as the first-of-its-kind platform that connects the world with the source of truly great food: chefs.
  • Today, CookUnity delivers 50 million meals a year from the industry's best chefs to homes all over the country.
  • Ready-to-eat.
  • And crafted with the passion that nourishes body and soul.
  • Unwilling to stop there, CookUnity is expanding beyond delivery to become an ever-innovating marketplace focused on our singular mission: empower Chefs to nourish the world.
  • If that mission has you hungry in more ways than one, you've found the right job posting.
  • structured and unstructured data flows, decision points, handoffs, and bottlenecks.
  • To give you deeper insight into who we are and what we're looking for, we invite you to explore: CookUnity's Leadership Principles.

Equal opportunity

  • CookUnity is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
  • Equal Opportunity Employer.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or physical or mental disability
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