CookUnity

AI Native Engineer

CookUnity
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3 months ago

Base Salary

$130k - $190k/yr

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 logic, human review, context, and guardrails.
  • Build and ship production workflows and internal tools used daily by business teams.
  • Connect APIs, CLIs, MCP servers, spreadsheets, data warehouses, workflow orchestration, databases, and other business systems.
  • Create human-in-the-loop interfaces where appropriate.
  • Own agents and applications in production, monitor performance, track KPIs, and explain outcomes to stakeholders.
  • Manage evaluations and regression testing after model, prompt, or upstream data changes.
  • Continuously improve workflow performance and document patterns, playbooks, and runbooks.
  • Teach teams to identify automation opportunities and increase AI adoption.

Requirements

  • Demonstrated ability to map and redesign messy business processes through automation.
  • Technical fluency with APIs, CLIs, MCP, databases, and workflow orchestration.
  • Judgment to choose between LLM-powered agents, deterministic applications, and scripts.
  • Strong foundation in at least one programming language such as TypeScript, Python, or Kotlin, with full-stack ability 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 communication skills for stakeholder interviews, business cases, and explaining technical tradeoffs.
  • Current knowledge of agentic and applied AI releases 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 AI production security and safety practices is preferred.
  • Experience working with operations, finance, marketing, or another business function is preferred.
  • Experience writing about Applied AI or teaching non-technical people to use AI tools effectively is preferred.

Benefits

  • Health insurance coverage
  • 401(k) plan
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Four-week paid sabbatical after five years
  • Paid family leave
  • Compassionate leave of 3–5 days when needed
  • Monthly CookUnity meal credits
  • Fitness subsidies and wellness perks
  • Enterprise access to ChatGPT and Claude
  • Personalized Spanish coach

Tech Stack

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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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