AI Engineer

For over four decades PAR Technology Corporation (NYSE: PAR) has been a leader in restaurant technology empowering brands worldwide to create lasting connections with their guests. Our innovative solutions and commitment to excellence provide comprehensive software and hardware that enable seamless experiences and drive growth for over 100000 restaurants in more than 110 countries. Embracing our Better Together ethos we offer Unified Customer Experience solutions combining point-of-sale digital ordering loyalty and back-office software solutions as well as industry-leading hardware and drive-thru offerings. To learn more visit or connect with us on LinkedIn X (formerly Twitter) Facebook and Instagram.

Position Description:

At PAR Technology we are focused on using AI to provide better products for the people who use our solutions. Were looking for an engineer with strong experience in LLM integration and AI product development to help turn our restaurant data and AI capabilities into a meaningful differentiating part of our user experience.

This role combines hands-on engineering product-level influence and architecture designing and building intelligent multi-step pipelines that use LLMs tools and data to solve complex user and product problems.

Position Location:

Remote United States

Reports To:

Director Software Engineering

What Were Looking For:

5 years experience as a software engineer ideally within a SaaS or data-centric product environment

Proficiency with LLM platforms and APIs (e.g. OpenAI Azure OpenAI)

Familiarity with prompt engineering embedding models and vector databases

Experience designing and implementing multi-step AI workflow chains (e.g. LangChain Semantic Kernel custom pipelines)

Strong data skills including proficiency with SQL and structured datasets in production

Understanding of cloud-based orchestration tools like Azure Data Factory or equivalents

Experience taking AI features from prototype to production with attention to scalability cost-efficiency and observability

Strong communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally with product engineering and data teams

Recognized as an internal driver of AI strategy and implementation setting standards and best practices for trustworthy scalable AI

Additional Skills (Nice-to-Haves):

Experience working with data-rich applications especially in retail hospitality or restaurant operations

Exposure to data visualization analytics platforms or reporting tools

Experience with traditional machine learning workflows (e.g. scikit-learn TensorFlow PyTorch)

Unleash your potential: What you will be doing and owning:

LLM-Powered Product Features: Design and build user-facing AI capabilities that simplify decision-making surface insights and enable faster action for operational teams. These features will be actively used by customers and help drive adoption and retention.

AI Workflow Chains: Create and maintain multi-step LLM workflows (chains) that combine prompts tools and data to execute complex tasksenabling conversational agents data-powered assistants and automation flows that deliver measurable process improvements.

Data-Enriched AI Capabilities: Use retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to combine internal data with LLMs and generate context-aware trustworthy results. These capabilities will evolve into trusted product experiences.

Wow Factor Experiences: Deliver features that set PAR apart from the competition and provide tangible value to usersleading to greater product adoption and customer retention.

Interview Process:

• Interview #1: Phone Screen with Talent Acquisition Team

• Interview #2: Video interview with the Hiring Manager (via MS Teams)

• Interview #3: Technical interview and exercise with the Team (via MS Teams)

• Interview #4: Final interview with Team (via MS Teams)

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