# Founding Applied AI Engineer

**Company:** [Atlas](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/atlas)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** ML Engineering
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** Python, Node.js, Go, AWS, GCP, LLMs, OpenAI, Anthropic, Hugging Face, RAG, Pinecone, Faiss, Postgres, Redis, Vector Databases
**Posted:** 2026-02-24

> Builds AI-powered concierge systems for luxury travel including recommendation flows, RAG for searches, preference engines, and integrations. Requires 3+ years cloud/AI experience with LLMs, vector search, and production systems; hybrid in SF office.

## Job Description

## What You'll Build
- AI recommendation and booking flows (hotels, dining, flights)
- Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems for dynamic hotel and travel searches
- Preference engines that learn and evolve from member interactions
- Lightweight AI orchestration layers integrated with Zendesk, Slack, and our internal tools

## What We’re Looking For
- 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 — you think about the end experience, not just the technical specs
- Collaboration skills and a desire to work tightly with product, design, and operations

## Similar roles

- [Software Engineer, AI Agents](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/94686d85-8544-4cc4-a8cf-41545c3d9d95) - Cloudflare
- [CoDesign & NextGen Performance Engineer](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/2cb728b7-a9ea-44b0-b16a-47364021f7be) - Cerebras Systems - Sunnyvale, CA
- [Research Engineer, Privacy](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/3220c5d0-0e5f-4869-b133-1ed126b4208a) - OpenAI - San Francisco, CA - $380k – $445k/yr
- [Research Engineer](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/b4d18018-e64d-4828-a8b4-303225328e17) - Console - San Francisco, CA - $200k – $350k/yr
- [Software Engineer, AI Platform](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/7ddad000-3e1c-47cb-a45b-31d8e72abc4f) - Notion - San Francisco, CA - $180k – $201k/yr

**Apply:** https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/4765ed4a-8c02-42a1-830a-9dfd13e9e11a
**Canonical:** https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/4765ed4a-8c02-42a1-830a-9dfd13e9e11a