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AI Software Engineer, Product

Palona AILos Altos, CA

Overview

Schedule
Full-time
Career level
Senior-level
Remote
On-site
Benefits
Health Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance

Job Description

We are looking for a product-focused AI Software Engineer to turn advances in AI into restaurant products that work reliably in the real world. You will build across customer-facing experiences, backend services, agent workflows, integrations, and evaluation systems. The job begins with a customer or product problem and ends when the solution is operating successfully in production—not when a model call works locally.

You may work on voice ordering, reservations, catering, restaurant operations, client configuration, analytics, or entirely new agent capabilities. You will collaborate directly with product, design, customer-facing teams, and restaurant operators; make fast product and technical tradeoffs; and own the quality of the resulting experience.

Our stack includes Python and FastAPI services, PostgreSQL, TypeScript, React and Next.js applications, real-time voice agents built with LiveKit, cloud infrastructure on AWS, and modern LLM, speech, and multimodal providers. Exact stack match is less important than full-stack range, product judgment, and a record of shipping.

What you’ll own

  • Build and ship end-to-end AI product experiences from problem discovery and prototype through launch, measurement, and iteration.
  • Develop customer-facing interfaces, backend APIs, data models, agent tools, and integrations as one coherent product.
  • Design agent workflows that combine models, context, memory, business rules, deterministic services, and human escalation.
  • Work directly with restaurant and internal users to understand failures, uncover unmet needs, and convert feedback into reusable product capabilities.
  • Integrate with POS, reservation, messaging, telephony, and other external systems while handling imperfect data and real operational constraints.
  • Build evaluations, instrumentation, guardrails, and feedback loops so probabilistic behavior can be measured and improved.
  • Improve latency, reliability, accuracy, usability, and cost across the full experience—not only within one layer of the stack.
  • Use AI-native development workflows to prototype and deliver quickly while retaining ownership of architecture, tests, security, and correctness.
  • Participate in product and technical planning, make tradeoffs explicit, and drive decisions when the path is ambiguous.
  • Raise the quality of nearby systems through code review, documentation, design discussion, and pragmatic refactoring.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of industrial experience in relevant technical domain.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience shipping production web or platform products.
  • Depth in either Python/backend engineering or TypeScript/React frontend engineering, plus the ability and desire to work effectively across the full stack.
  • Experience building with LLMs, speech models, computer vision, or agent systems beyond a toy prototype.
  • Product judgment: you can simplify scope, identify the highest-leverage user problem, and distinguish an impressive demo from a valuable product.
  • Experience designing APIs, data models, asynchronous workflows, and integrations with external systems.
  • A strong quality bar for testing, observability, security, reliability, and user experience.
  • Comfort working directly with users and operating in a fast-changing startup environment.
  • AI-native working habits paired with independent technical judgment.

Benefits

  • Competitive Salary and Stock Option Plan.
  • Medical, dental, vision, retirement, leave, and disability benefits as applicable.
  • Family Leave
  • Short Term & Long Term Disability
  • Paid time off and company holidays.
  • Learning and development support.

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FAQs About AI Software Engineer, Product Jobs at Palona AI

What is the work location for this position at Palona AI?
This job at Palona AI is located in Los Altos, CA, according to the details provided by the employer. Some roles may also include multiple work locations depending on the requirement.
What pay range can candidates expect for this role at Palona AI?
Employer has not shared pay details for this role.
What employment applies to this position at Palona AI?
Palona AI lists this role as a Full-time position.
What experience level is required for this role at Palona AI?
Palona AI is looking for a candidate with "Senior-level" experience level.
What benefits are offered by Palona AI for this role?
Palona AI offers following benefits: Health Insurance, Dental Insurance, Vision Insurance, Disability Insurance, Family/Dependent Health, Paid Holidays, Paid Vacation, Parental and Family Leave, Career Development, and 401k Matching/Retirement Savings for this position. Actual benefits may vary depending on the employer's policies and employment terms.
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