Lead Stack Engineer - AI Capable

Job Description

We are seeking a highly skilled and forward-thinking Senior Lead Full Stack Engineer to join our lean, operations-driven team. As the first engineering hire, you'll not only architect and build our suite of software products—from kitchen operations and recipe management platforms to new digital tools for future lines of business—but you'll also lay the foundation for our AI-assisted systems.

You will directly influence the technological trajectory of our business and be the principal driver of technical implementation, innovation, and efficiency. We're looking for a self-starter who can operate as a solo engineer initially, but with the foresight to design scalable systems with AI in mind and grow a team around them. On-site presence (5 days / week) is mandatory due to the deep integration of our tech with physical operations.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end planning, design, and development of our internal and customer-facing software products
• Integrate AI / ML tools and services to improve kitchen productivity, forecasting, data extraction, and intelligent automation
• Evaluate opportunities to apply AI to unstructured data : menu PDFs, kitchen camera feeds, ops logs, 3P order metadata, etc.
• Collaborate with data, kitchen ops, and executive stakeholders to define requirements and roadmap
• Write clean, scalable code across the full stack with strong documentation and system design practices
• Architect systems that can incorporate LLMs, embeddings, and real-time AI inferences
• Design fault-tolerant systems that integrate cloud-native AI services (OpenAI, HuggingFace, Google Vertex, LangChain, Pinecone, etc.
• Establish CI / CD practices, test coverage, and performance monitoring
• Contribute to overall strategic tech planning, with a particular focus on how AI tools can extend human capabilities
• Recruit and mentor new engineers as the team expands

Qualifications

familiarity with edge hardware integration, computer vision, or on-prem AI inference for food tech environments

Bonus Areas of AI Application

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