Staff AI Engineer, Foodsmart
$190-210k
+ Bonus
Telenutrition & foodcare network
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Telenutrition & foodcare network
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$190-210k
+ Bonus
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To provide simple solutions to accomplish health goals through a personalized program.
Role
Who you are
- A senior technical leader with a demonstrated ability to architect, build, and scale AI-backed systems in production environments
- Comfortable operating across layers—from backend API services to AI Services and ML model lifecycle management—while driving architectural clarity and system-level thinking
- Experienced in bridging the gap between research and production, with a strong focus on reliability, maintainability, and business outcomes
- Skilled at leading cross-team initiatives, guiding technical direction, and fostering a high-trust engineering culture
- Able to influence without authority, collaborating across teams to align on complex technical trade-offs
- Deeply invested in engineering excellence, with a strong bias toward automation, observability, and security
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 2+ years at the Staff Engineer level or equivalent
- 4+ years of experience with backend development in TypeScript, Node.js, and SQL-based RDBMS (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL)
- 1+ years deploying ML/AI models to production, with hands-on experience fine-tuning LLMs or transformer-based models
- Deep understanding of system architecture, cloud infrastructure (AWS), and scalable API design
- Strong experience with Data Pipeline tooling (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, dbt, Dagster) and model deployment practices
- Proven leadership in setting technical direction, mentoring engineers, and driving cross-team projects to completion
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
What the job involves
- Foodsmart is seeking a Staff AI Engineer who will play a critical leadership role in shaping the architecture and delivery of AI-powered systems across the organization
- You’ll operate at the intersection of backend engineering and applied machine learning—designing resilient infrastructure, deploying cutting-edge models, and mentoring engineers across teams
- This role goes beyond building software: it’s about setting strategy, elevating engineering standards, and turning AI innovation into scalable, real-world impact
- Own the architecture and implementation of distributed, high-scale backend systems and APIs that serve machine learning models in production
- Lead technical design for AI integration across product lines, enabling real-time and batch inference workflows using LLMs, transformers, and classification models
- Drive the fine-tuning and deployment of pre-trained models (e.g., from Hugging Face or OpenAI) for mission-critical business use cases in domains such as healthcare, finance, or operations
- Integrate external AI services where appropriate and evaluate trade-offs for build vs. buy decisions
- Define and evolve platform-wide standards for backend engineering, MLOps, model governance, and observability
- Mentor and support senior and mid-level engineers, both within your team and across functions, to elevate system design and code quality
- Collaborate with cross-functional leaders in product, ML research, data engineering, and DevOps to align technical initiatives with business goals
- Influence AI strategy and roadmap, evaluating emerging technologies and frameworks for future adoption
- Lead root-cause analyses and performance tuning to ensure systems remain reliable, efficient, and scalable
Our take
Eating well can be a challenge, especially for people with care commitments or lower incomes. Unfortunately, not eating well can worsen various health problems, leading to increased medical costs in the long run.
To help with this, Foodsmart supplies meal kits tailored to each customer's nutritional needs and dietary preferences. With registered dieticians consulting and guiding subscriber meal plans, the company has smartly carved a science-first niche in the multi-billion dollar meal plan delivery service market.
With over 1 million users enrolled, Foodsmart has proven popular. It also boasts demonstrated results such as positive weight loss for obese subscribers, and lowered systolic blood pressure for those with hypertension. It continues to be popular with investors too, with its fundraises supporting the expansion of operations and its business reach.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Jun 2024
$200m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Jan 2024
$10m
SERIES C
Total funding: $309.9m
Company benefits
- Unlimited PTO
- Flexible working hours
- Flexible working location
- Paid health insurance
- 401k, bonus & stock options
Company HQ
Jackson Square, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Jason Langheier
(Founder & Chief Science Officer)Board Director at Partnership for Healthier America. Co-Founder and former CTO at Proventys, and Chairman and Founder of Fitness Forward. MPH at Harvard in Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Decision Sciences.
Kurt Knight
(CEO)Joined the company as CEO in 2025. Previously spent almost 14 years at Amwell, ultimately as COO for 5 years.
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