Posted 3 months ago
AI Software Engineer, Product
@ Palona AI
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Palona AI is hiring a product-focused AI Software Engineer to build restaurant products such as voice ordering, reservations and catering that work reliably in production. The role spans customer-facing interfaces, backend services, agent workflows and integrations, with direct work alongside product teams and restaurant operators. Full-time, with a competitive salary, stock options and benefits.
Responsibilities:
- Build and ship end-to-end AI product experiences
- Design agent workflows combining models, memory and business rules
- Integrate with POS, reservation and telephony systems
- Build evaluations, instrumentation and guardrails
- Improve latency, reliability and accuracy across the stack
Requirements summary:
- 3+ years of relevant industrial experience
- Production web or platform product experience
- Depth in Python/backend or TypeScript/React
- Experience with LLM, speech or agent systems beyond prototypes
- Product judgment and strong quality bar
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Source and dates
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-08-10
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-09
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-09
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Job details
| Seniority | Mid level |
| Department | Software development |
| Experience | 3+ years |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Work setting | Office |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
| Perks mentioned | Generous paid time off, Retirement plan |
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Palona AI
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Full company description
We are building a new, completely proprietary AI system with multi-agents, multimodal-to-action models, combined with unrivaled emotional intelligence language models to empower businesses to scale by delivering a high-touch customer experience, automation and efficiency. Our AI Agents will supercharge the core of your business.
- LinkedIn followers
- 3,005
- People associated on LinkedIn
- 31
- Reported office locations
- Menlo Park, CA 94025, US
- Business categories
- Brand Marketing
- Software
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Other recorded names
- Palona AI
- Profile identifies a recruitment agency
- No
- Reported total investment
- 10,000,000
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We are building a new, completely proprietary AI system with multi-agents, multimodal-to-action models, combined with unrivaled emotional intelligence language models to empower businesses to scale by delivering a high-touch customer experience, automation and efficiency. Our AI Agents will supercharge the core of your business.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Software Development |
| Company size | 11-50 employees |
| Headquarters | Menlo Park, CA |
| Organization type | Privately Held |
| Year founded | 2024 |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 5 |
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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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