Palona AI
AI Software Engineer, Product
Los Altos, California +1 · Full-time · Posted Aug 11, 2026
- Location
- Los Altos, California
New York, New York - Experience
- 3+ years of industrial experience in a relevant technical domain.
About the job
Build and operate full-stack AI products for restaurants, from problem discovery through production launch, measurement, and iteration.
What you'll do
- Ship end-to-end AI product experiences across interfaces, APIs, agent workflows, and integrations.
- Design and improve agent workflows, evaluations, instrumentation, guardrails, and feedback loops.
- Work with restaurant users and internal teams to identify problems and improve product quality, reliability, and usability.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of industrial experience in a relevant technical domain.
- Experience shipping production web or platform products, with strong software engineering fundamentals.
- Depth in Python/backend engineering or TypeScript/React frontend engineering, and ability to work across the full stack.
- Experience building beyond toy prototypes with LLMs, speech models, computer vision, or agent systems.
Tools
Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, TypeScript, React, Next.js, LiveKit, AWS
AI focus
Build restaurant AI products and agent workflows using models, context, memory, business rules, deterministic services, and human escalation; develop evaluations and feedback loops to measure and improve probabilistic behavior.
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