Founding Applied AI Engineer

The role

You will design and ship real-world AI systems to personalize recommendations and automate complex requests. You will build AI recommendation and booking flows, RAG systems, preference engines, and AI orchestration layers.

What you will do

• Build AI recommendation and booking flows for hotels, dining, and flights
• Develop retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems for dynamic hotel and travel searches
• Create preference engines that learn and evolve from member interactions
• Build lightweight AI orchestration layers integrated with Zendesk, Slack, and internal tools

Required qualifications

• 5+ years experience developing software in modern environments (Python, Node.js, Go, or similar)
• 3+ years experience deploying and scaling cloud-based applications (AWS, GCP, or similar)
• Deep experience integrating LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Hugging Face) and building production AI systems
• Knowledge of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), embeddings, and vector search (Pinecone, FAISS, or similar)
• Solid understanding of database design (Postgres, Redis, vector DBs)
• Strong optimization skills, especially for low-latency, high-availability systems
• Product instincts
• Collaboration skills and a desire to work tightly with product, design, and operations

Benefits

• Real impact
• Early stage, no bureaucracy
• Creative, high-caliber teammates
• Solid compensation
• Meaningful equity
• Fun problem space

About the company

Atlas is a concierge and credit card for those who expect more, providing access across dining, travel, and lifestyle. The team is a small, high-performing group of around 35 people based between New York and San Francisco.