AI Product Engineer, Evaneos
€67-75k
3-5 days a week in office (Rue de Mogador, Paris)
Online platform connecting travelers to local agencies
Be an early applicant
Online platform connecting travelers to local agencies
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
€67-75k
3-5 days a week in office (Rue de Mogador, Paris)
101-200 employees
Company mission
From day one, Evaneos exists to create meaningful connections through travel and bring long-term benefits to local communities
Role
Who you are
- You have at least 5 years of software development experience and are comfortable with APIs and data stores
- You’ve built and deployed AI agents in production with real users: not just PoCs or hackathon projects
- You’ve set up or contributed to LLM evaluation pipelines (offline benchmarks and/or online metrics) and have designed guardrails
- You have hands-on experience with observability for LLM systems: tracing, monitoring, diagnosing regressions from traces (Langfuse, LangSmith, or equivalent)
- Curious and passionate about AI: you keep up with the state of the art, test things to understand them, and apply what you learn to what you build
- Full-stack at heart: in a small team, you’re happy to touch front, back, and infra. No “That’s not my job.”
- Strong ownership: you spot problems, propose solutions, and move forward while keeping everyone in the loop. You finish what you start
- Product appetite: you want to understand users, conversion, and the business. Engineering is a means to an end: crafting meaningful experiences and solving real customer problems
- Team player: You like pairing, sharing knowledge, communicating clearly, and pulling in the same direction
- Fluent in professional English
- You want to build and ship AI products to real users, not do pure ML research
- You care about the product outcome, not just the technical pipeline
- You’re comfortable working daily alongside product, design, and business stakeholders
What the job involves
- Within the Innovation Department, the Pathfinder team is reinventing how travelers design their tailor-made trips, with AI as the central lever of the experience
- We are hiring an AI Product Engineer to ship AI-native travel experiences used by real travelers in production
- You’ll design, build, and operate AI products powered by agentic architectures, working end-to-end from problem framing to live monitoring, always in service of real user and business needs
- Your impact: you’ll build traveler-facing AI products that move metrics on conversion, experience, and cost
- Two are already live and serving traffic: an AI trip designer that helps travelers explore and customize itineraries and a conversational experience that turns their intent into a structured travel project local agencies can act on
- Real products, not internal tools
- Within the Innovation Department, AI runs on two complementary fronts:
- Pathfinder: we design and build AI-native products to unlock new growth opportunities and keep Evaneos at the forefront of its market
- AI Company: we solve real team problems to improve internal efficiency, accelerate execution, and build a practical AI-native culture
- You’ll join Pathfinder
- It’s a small, focused team:
- Clément Stouls (Product Manager),
- Lou Anfriani (Product Designer),
- Jocelyne Boun (AI Product Engineer) & Timothé Hofmann (Full stack Engineer),
- You (AI Product Engineer)
- The team reports to Romain Quilliot (Head of Innovation), who leads strategy, operations, and execution. By design, the team member owns it’s direction and proposes initiatives — with direct exposure to C-level leadership on product and business strategy
- Design agent architectures: runtime, tool systems, orchestration patterns, middleware, state management, RAG. Choose the right pattern for the right problem!
- Own context engineering: shape what the models see and find ways to better steer the model and system, raising quality while controlling cost
- Make quality measurable: build evaluation pipelines (offline benchmarks plus online metrics) and observability to catch hallucinations, drift, and regressions before users do
- Own the economic viability: once something is live, find the right balance of quality, speed, and cost
- Keep it running: debug production issues on non-deterministic systems, handle model migrations when providers change their APIs, and deal with structured output failures and tool call errors
- Own the infra: You build it, you ship it. Keep the dev environment fast and the deployment pipeline reliable
- Own problems end-to-end: from framing to resolution, in collaboration with product, design, and business stakeholders
- Take an active part in product direction, grounded in real user and business stakes
- Translate technical constraints into product options, and explain the paradigm shifts AI brings
- Proactively communicate on progress, decisions, and blockers: position yourself as an enabler for the team
- Co-lead the AI Champions Tech program, leveling up Product & Tech across Evaneos on AI practices and knowledge
- Share your learnings with the Innovation team and wider tech community
- Run workshops and talks that demystify what matters in the agentic era
Application process
- In French and/or English:
- RH call with our Talent Acquisition Manager (Greismar): Initial chat to get to know you, learn about your work experience, and how they connect to the role ⏲️ 30 - 45 minutes
- Take-home assignment (with your favorite coding agents): build an agent integrated into a travel product. We’ll share the brief, evaluation criteria, and expected deliverables upfront
- Technical interview with Romain Q and one engineer: ways of working, collaboration and deep-diving into your assignment + discussion on agentic architecture and system design. ⏲️ 1h30
- Product discussion with Lou or Clément & Jocelyne: discussing how you work with product teams and make informed decision. ⏲️ 1h
- Final conversation with Romain R, Chief Product Officer. ⏲️ 30 minutes
- A quick word on how we read your application 👋
- To give every candidate a fair shot and the attention they deserve, we sometimes lean on AI tools to support parts of our hiring process: to help review applications or assess responses. These tools support our team and help us stay consistent, but they don’t make decisions for us. Every final hiring call is made by a person. Questions about how we process your data? Feel free to reach out :)
Our take
Evaneos, founded in 2009, is an online travel platform that directly connects travellers with a carefully curated network of experts across the globe. By partnering with these experienced locals, Evaneos enables travellers to create unique and authentic travel experiences that are tailored to their interests and preferences.
Evaneos boasts an impressive network of over 600 local partners in 160 destinations, making it a go-to platform for travellers seeking a unique travel experience. With a firm commitment to responsible tourism, Evaneos partners exclusively with locals who share its vision of promoting cultural awareness and respect for local communities. This not only ensures that travellers have an unforgettable adventure but also helps to support the economies of the destination they visit in a sustainable and ethical manner.
Evaneos has taken a significant step towards achieving its growth objectives with recent funding rounds. The company is now in a strong position to expand and solidify its presence in key markets across Europe, including France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. By leveraging the newly acquired capital, Evaneos can continue to provide innovative travel solutions, and offer unparalleled personalised experiences for its customers, cementing its position as a leader in the travel industry.
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Company HQ
Chaussée-d'Antin, Paris, France
Leadership
Eric La Bonnardiere
(Co-Founder)Previously worked as a Consultant at Advancy and Capgemini. Also worked as the Assistant to the Director of Isover at Saint-Gobain.
Yvan Wibaux
(Co-Founder)Previously founded Getvega and Viatao. Now works as a Professor at the University of Central Paris and is an Investor and Advisor for multiple companies.
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