CookUnity

AI Native Engineer

CookUnity
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3 months ago
Toronto, CanadaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Map high-value workflows, including data flows, decision points, handoffs, and bottlenecks.
  • Identify automation opportunities and build business cases based on time saved, revenue impact, or cost reduction.
  • Design future-state workflows with appropriate agents, deterministic applications, human checkpoints, context, and safety guardrails.
  • Build and ship production workflows and internal tools used daily by business teams.
  • Connect APIs, CLIs, MCP servers, spreadsheets, data warehouses, workflow orchestration systems, databases, and other business tools.
  • Create human-in-the-loop interfaces where appropriate and write clean, maintainable code.
  • Own agents and applications in production by monitoring performance, tracking KPIs, and explaining outcomes to stakeholders.
  • Manage evaluations and regression testing after model updates, prompt changes, or upstream data shifts.
  • Continuously improve workflow performance and document reusable patterns, playbooks, and runbooks.
  • Teach teams to identify automation opportunities and increase AI adoption and compute fluency.

Requirements

  • Demonstrated ability to map and redesign real-world business processes with automation.
  • Technical fluency connecting systems through APIs, CLIs, MCP, databases, and workflow orchestration.
  • Ability to judge when to use LLM-powered agents versus deterministic applications or scripts.
  • Strong foundation in at least one programming language such as TypeScript, Python, or Kotlin, with the ability to build full-stack when needed.
  • Hands-on production experience with LLMs, including structured outputs, evaluation frameworks, error handling, and human-in-the-loop design.
  • Operational maturity in monitoring, measuring, iterating, and documenting production systems.
  • Strong cross-functional communication skills for interviewing stakeholders, presenting business cases, and explaining technical tradeoffs.
  • Familiarity with current agentic and applied AI capabilities from Anthropic, OpenAI, Vercel, OpenClaw, and others is preferred.
  • A portfolio of deployed agent-powered workflows or internal tools is preferred.
  • Understanding of Git, version control workflows, and basic security and safety practices for production AI deployments is preferred.
  • Experience writing about Applied AI is preferred.
  • Experience working with operations, finance, marketing, or another business function is preferred.
  • Experience teaching non-technical people to use AI tools effectively is preferred.

Benefits

  • Health insurance coverage through Canada Life.
  • Flexible paid time off.
  • A four-week paid sabbatical after five years with CookUnity.
  • Paid family leave.
  • Three to five days of compassionate leave when needed.
  • Monthly CookUnity meal credits.
  • Fitness subsidies and wellness perks.
  • Enterprise access to ChatGPT and Claude.
  • Personalized Spanish coach.

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About CookUnity

501-1,000 employees

CookUnity operates a chef-to-consumer meal marketplace and subscription service that delivers ready-to-eat dishes from independent chefs to households across the U.S. The privately held company earns revenue D2C through weekly meal plans and an online marketplace, handling production and last-mile logistics from multiple kitchens. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, it focuses on foodtech and supports a roster of regional and nationally recognized chefs.

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