AI Engineer, Haddock
€40-55k
2-5 days a week in office
Restaurant management software
Open for applications
Restaurant management software
21-100 employees
Open for applications
€40-55k
2-5 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To inspire and empower millions of restaurants by taking their business to the next level.
Role
Who you are
- 👉 2+ years of hands-on experience building AI systems in production. Not experiments, real workflows that customers rely on
- 👉 You're truly AI-native: you follow new models, papers, and techniques, and you continuously refine how you use them in practice
- 👉 You're also AI-native in how you build: you use modern AI-powered dev tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex or similar) and assemble your own agents and workflows to move faster
- 👉 You combine engineering rigor with product thinking. You design, debug, and improve end-to-end systems that solve real problems
- 👉 Fluent in Spanish and comfortable in English
Desirable
- AI observability platforms like langfuse (tracing, metrics, evals for LLM apps and agents)
- Designing and running evaluations
- Multimodal LLMs, especially vision models for OCR document understanding
- Building and orchestrating multi-agent systems
- RAG systems and vector databases
- Designing or working with MCPs
What the job involves
- Architect and ship AI solutions for restaurateurs, balancing latency, cost, and accuracy
- Obsess over efficiency: a single line of code has saved us thousands of dollars, minutes of latency, or unlocked a step-change in accuracy. You'll think this way by default
- Own AI observability end-to-end: monitor billions of traces, design evaluation frameworks, and close the improvement loop as fast as possible
- Build backend and frontend code to integrate AI capabilities into the product
- Do your own project management, rolling out your initiatives to customers
- Talk to customers to validate new solutions and get feedback
Application process
- We move fast and communicate openly. Our goal is to wrap up the process within a week. Here's what to expect:
- Intro call with Enric (AI Lead), 25 mins
- Call with Pol (co-founder, CPO), 25 mins
- Technical interviews with Enric and Guillermo(Head of Tech) (2 hours)
- Final call with Arnau (co-founder, CEO), 25 mins
Our take
In the restaurant industry, cost control is an essential aspect of maintaining a profit. By successfully managing the costs of food, labour, and overhead expenses, restaurants can optimise their margins and increase profitability. Many restaurants look to SaaS companies to provide them with specialised software solutions that save management valuable time and help them stay on top of the competitive restaurant industry.
Barcelona-based Haddock is helping restaurants improve their margins thanks to real-time cost control. Through the use of AI, Haddock is making it easy for customers to digitise documents as well as export data to make better decisions and optimise their business.
Haddock has witnessed steady growth since its inception in 2020 and is now home to over 1,000 customers. Accepted into the Y Combinator accelerator programme in 2021, the startup has since gone on to open new offices and make way for new employees for a promising future in restaurant software.
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Mar 2022
$0.2m
SEED
Apr 2021
$3.5m
SEED
Total funding: $3.7m
Company benefits
- Flexible working hours
Company HQ
Dreta de l'Eixample, Barcelona, Spain
Leadership
Arnau Navarro
(CEO & Co-founder)Previously co-founded the mobile app Group where they served as CEO. They also have experience as the Internationalisation Manager at TEXFOR, as Country Manager at GINETEX Spain, and as a Lead Generation Manager at NoviCap.
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