Staff AI Engineer, Agent Orchestration
Staff AI Engineer, Agent Orchestration
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Job Description
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
We are seeking a Staff AI Engineer Agent Orchestration to lead the development of next-generation agentic systems that infuse Generative AI into every layer of the software delivery lifecycle. This is a hybrid role that blends full-stack engineering (Kotlin TypeScript) with LLM systems design focused on transforming developer workflows CI/CD pipelines observability and runtime operations through AI-native automation.
As a technical spearheader you will be responsible for architecting and scaling intelligent developer tools copilots and runtime agents that extend far beyond prompt engineeringenabling an accelerated self-healing and insight-driven engineering ecosystem.
Responsibilities
Architect and deliver full-stack GenAI-integrated systems leveraging Kotlin (Ktor/Spring) Python React/TypeScript and AWS tooling.
Operationalize LLMs and agent frameworks to automate SDLC stages: from requirements parsing and code generation to test synthesis deployment validations and post-deploy analytics.
Develop multi-agent orchestration patterns (e.g. tool use planning memory) across backend and frontend development flows.
Embed GenAI-driven workflows into developer tooling: Full Test Driven Development cycle PR summarization AI-assisted code reviews and contextual documentation retrieval.
Extend CI/CD systems with LLM-based capabilities: dependency change impact prediction and build-time telemetry analysis.
Instrument systems with DataDog and AI-native observability: anomaly detection root cause localization and natural language log exploration.
Partner cross-functionally with product infra and data teams to identify and prioritize AI-native engineering opportunities.
Scout evaluate and hands-on integrate cutting-edge GenAI frameworks and developer toolingbringing innovative capabilities into our stack to radically streamline coding testing and deployment workflows.
Contribute to engineering-wide technical direction through architecture reviews RFCs and mentorship.
Requirements
7 years of designing and building distributed back-end services in Kotlin (or Java) and modern TypeScript-based front-ends (React/).
Ability to ship robust production-grade Python codeowning everything from design and performance tuning to deployment.
Proven track record shipping LLM/GenAI features to production with experience across the lifecycle: prompt engineering fine-tuning latency optimization evaluation and safety alignment.
Deep fluency with modern software delivery practices: test strategy blue-green and canary deployments observability and rollback mechanisms.
Demonstrated experience driving adoption of automated testing strategies (TDD/BDD) and CI/CD best practices.
Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to synthesize complex trade-offs for both technical and cross-functional stakeholders.
Preferred requirements:
Strong full-stack development experience with Kotlin and React.
Experience building and deploying multi-agent LLM systems with memory reasoning or dynamic planning.
Familiarity with RAG pipelines vector search embeddings and semantic caching.
Prior experience in a high-growth product-centric startup environment.
Where Youll Be:
We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best!
This team operates within the Eastern Standard time zone for collaboration.
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 product vision. If this excites you wed love to connect!
Benefits
Health Insurance coverage
401k Plan
We grow you grow: Stock Options Plan granted on Day 1
Eligible for a bi-annual performance bonus
Unlimited PTO
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: access to a nutritional coach and fitness subsidies to build a healthy lifestyle
Personalized Spanish coach
Awesome opportunity to join a company that is looking to change how we eat and how chefs work!
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.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.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
