AI Native Engineer

About CookUnity:

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 industrys best chefs to homes all over the country. Fresh. 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 youve found the right job posting.

The Role:

Every team at CookUnity has workflows that could be 10-100x more effective with the right automation. But unlocking that requires someone who can see the opportunity design the future-state process build it and keep it running. Thats this role.

Youll embed directly with the cross functional AI team as a dedicated AI engineer. Your job isnt to write code faster with AI. Its to fundamentally redesign how work gets done. Youll map existing workflows end-to-end identify where throwing compute at a task creates step-change value and then build the solution: sometimes thats an agent sometimes its a deterministic internal app sometimes its a combination. Knowing which to reach for and when is a core part of the job.

Youll architect the automated version build it and then own it in production: tracking KPIs managing evals after model changes and continuously improving.

This is equal parts business analyst systems integrator and engineer. Youll spend as much time interviewing stakeholders and mapping data flows as you will writing code. You need to be the kind of person who can sit with a team lead whiteboard a procurement process or a campaign launch workflow spot the bottleneck thats begging for automation and have a working prototype by end of week.

Youll report to the Head of Applied AI.

Responsibilities:

Discover and Design

• Map the teams highest-value workflows end-to-end: structured and unstructured data flows decision points handoffs and bottlenecks
• 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 wasnt 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 the business case. You can articulate why this workflow matters in terms of time saved revenue impact or cost reduced

Build and Ship

• Build production workflows and internal tools that the team relies on daily not just demos
• Use your judgment on the right tool for the job: agentic workflows when tasks require reasoning and flexibility deterministic apps and scripts when the logic is well-defined and reliability matters most
• Work across the companys toolstack: APIs CLIs MCP servers spreadsheets data warehouses workflow orchestration databases and whatever else needs connecting
• 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. Youll use AI tools to move fast but you own the quality of what ships

Run and Improve

• 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
• Continuously improve: every workflow you own should get measurably better over time
• Build institutional knowledge: document patterns create playbooks and teach your team to think in terms of whats now automatable.
• Level up your teams compute fluency and increase AI adoption

What Success Looks Like

• Within 60 days youve mapped 3 high value workflows and shipped your first production tool (agent or app) that the team uses daily
• Within 6 months youve automated or agent-assisted 3-5 core workflows with measurable impact on team throughput or cost
• The team youve worked with considers you indispensable not because youre the only one who can code but because you see automation opportunities they cant
• You can show a clear before/after: hours saved error rates reduced throughput increased or entirely new capabilities unlocked
• Your agents and apps are running reliably in production with monitoring evals and documented runbooks

Minimum Requirements:

• Demonstrated ability to map a business process and redesign it with automation. This is the #1 skill. Show us a time you took a messy real-world workflow understood it deeply and made it dramatically better.
• Technical fluency to connect systems and build production workflows. Youre comfortable with APIs CLIs MCP databases and workflow orchestration. You can wire up business systems without waiting for someone else to do it.
• Good judgment on agents vs. deterministic tools. You know when an LLM-powered agent is the right call and when a well-built internal app or script is better. You dont reach for AI when a cron job will do and you dont build brittle rule engines when the task needs reasoning.
• Strong foundation in at least one programming language (TypeScript Python Kotlin or similar) and ability to build full-stack when needed.
• 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.
• Operational maturity. You dont just build things you run them. You monitor measure iterate and document.
• Communication skills to work cross-functionally. Youll interview stakeholders present business cases and explain technical tradeoffs to non-technical leaders.

Preferred Requirements:

• You stay current with the latest releases and capabilities from Anthropic OpenAI Vercel OpenClaw and others in the agentic/applied AI space. You can talk about what shipped last month and what it changes.
• A portfolio of agent-powered workflows or internal tools youve built and deployed. Side projects work projects open source anything with real users.
• You understand git version control workflows and basic security and safety practices when deploying AI into production environments.
• Youve written about how you think about Applied AI (blog posts threads internal docs).
• Youve worked with ops finance marketing or another business function not just engineering.
• Youve taught non-technical people to use AI tools effectively.

Technologies Youll Use

• LLM APIs: Anthropic (Claude) OpenAI open-source models
• Agent and Orchestration: Claude Code Codex App Server Sandboxes MCP n8n Temporal Agent SDK custom TypeScript/Python pipelines
• Data: Snowflake Postgres SQL dbt
• Business Systems: Varies by team (Braze Ramp NetSuite Jira Linear Slack etc.)
• Collaboration: Slack Notion Google Workspace
• Infrastructure: Vercel AWS

Benefits

Health Insurance coverage (Canada Life)

Flexible Paid Time Off

5- year Sabbatical: After 5 years with CookUnity you get a 4-week paid sabbatical

Paid family leave

Compassionate Leave: 3-5 days each time the need arises

A generous amount of CookUnity credits to enjoy our amazing meals added to your account monthly

Wellness perks: fitness subsidies to build a healthy lifestyle

AI-forward workplace: enterprise access to ChatGPT and Claude to help you work smarter and grow faster

Personalized Spanish coach

Awesome opportunity to join a company that is looking to change how we eat and how chefs work!

Learn More About CookUnity

We believe great leadership starts with alignment on vision values and ways of working. To give you deeper insight into who we are and what were looking for we invite you to explore: CookUnitys Leadership Principles. The values and behaviors that guide how we operate collaborate and scale.

We hope this provides valuable insight into our culture and how we work. If this excites you wed love to connect!

If youre interested in this role please submit your application and if we think you might be a fit well get in touch with you.Thank you for your time!

CookUnity is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are dedicated to creating a community of inclusion and an environment free from discrimination or harassment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration 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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