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AI Software Engineer, Product

@ Palona AI

Toronto, Ontario

Full-time3+ years experience
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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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Benefits mentioned

Health insuranceDentalVisionDisability insurancePaid time offStock options
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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

SeniorityMid level
DepartmentSoftware development
Experience3+ years
Hours per week40 (estimated)
Work settingOffice
PositionMostly sitting
Physical demandsphysical low · computer high
LanguagesEnglish
Perks mentionedGenerous 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
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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.

FieldValue
IndustrySoftware Development
Company size11-50 employees
HeadquartersMenlo Park, CA
Organization typePrivately Held
Year founded2024
Open jobs on Jobsy5
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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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