Staff AI Engineer, CookUnity
Agent Orchestration
$180-200k
+ Stock Options Plan + Bi-Annual Performance Bonus
More information about location
Ready-meal delivery marketplace
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Ready-meal delivery marketplace
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$180-200k
+ Stock Options Plan + Bi-Annual Performance Bonus
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
CookUnity is on a mission to unlock the world’s best food creators and bring their meals to the masses.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of designing and building distributed back-end services in Kotlin (or Java) and modern TypeScript-based front-ends (React/Next.js)
- Ability to ship robust, production-grade Python code—owning 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
Desirable
- 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
What the job involves
- 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 engineering—enabling an accelerated, self-healing, and insight-driven engineering ecosystem
- 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 tooling—bringing 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
Our take
CookUnity is a meal subscription service which connects consumers with some of the country's best known chefs, including Esther Choi, Chris Ratel and Andy Mendez. Consumers can select from a menu of handcrafted meals that cater to a wide variety of palates and dietary preferences. Believing that healthy food fuels stronger communities, CookUnity contributes to an ongoing partnership and donation with the Food Bank For New York City.
The New York founded business hit the headlines for its upward trajectory in 2020, where it secured 15.5 million in funding and saw an expected boost not just in demand, but in the supply of top culinary talent at a time when restaurants were struggling.
While there’s a wide world of meal plan delivery services, CookUnity has a jump on much of the competition as it’s the first service that connects such eminent chefs directly with the customer. This has allowed it to expand across much of the US, and it now prepares over 10 million meals annually for its 50,000 subscribers.
With most of the urban US now covered by its service, CookUnity is moving into the next phase of its growth, expanding the range of sellers and food products on the platform, and has plans to offer family-sized portions, brekfast options and cooking classes using its existing physical and digital infrastructure. This will enable it to grow into an all-in-one meal subscription service over the coming years.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
30% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Apr 2023
$47m
LATE VC
Sep 2021
$47m
SERIES B
Total funding: $119.3m
Company benefits
- 📈 We grow, you grow: Stock Options Plan granted on Day 1
- 🏖 Unlimited PTO policy and paid holidays off
- 🐣 Family leave: 12 weeks for primary caregiver and 6 weeks for secondary caregiver, fully paid
- 🕯 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
Company HQ
Bedford-Stuyvesant, NY
Leadership
Mateo Marietti
(CEO)Born on a farm in Argentina, Mateo is on a mission to make great real food available for all and a more fair and sustainable food system. He has built 10+ food brands that delivered more than 25M meals combined in the last 13 years, including SUSHIPOP and La Causa.
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