Founding Applied AI Engineer

About this role

Atlas seeks an Applied AI Engineer to build AI-powered travel and concierge features for their luxury credit card platform. You'll design production AI systems including recommendation engines, RAG-based search, and preference learning tools that serve high-end members. This founding role offers the opportunity to shape next-generation AI products in payments, travel, and dining within a small, well-funded team.

What you'll do

• Design and ship AI recommendation and booking flows for hotels, dining, and flights
• Build retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems for dynamic travel and hotel searches
• Develop preference engines that learn and evolve from member interactions
• Create lightweight AI orchestration layers integrated with Zendesk, Slack, and internal tools
• Optimize systems for low-latency, high-availability production environments
• Collaborate with product, design, and operations teams on user-facing AI experiences

What they're looking for

• 5+ years software development (Python, Node.js, Go, or similar)
• 3+ years deploying and scaling cloud applications (AWS, GCP)
• Production LLM integration (OpenAI, Anthropic, Hugging Face)
• RAG, embeddings, and vector search (Pinecone, FAISS)
• Database design (Postgres, Redis, vector databases)
• Low-latency system optimization
• Product thinking and user experience focus
• Cross-functional collaboration skills

Benefits

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity
• Real impact on luxury travel and payments industry
• Early-stage environment with minimal bureaucracy
• Work with high-caliber team from Apple, Shopify, Y Combinator
• Well-funded with multiple years of runway
• In-person collaboration in SF FiDi office (3+ days/week)