AI Engineer (Consumer Travel AI)
ScrumAID
New York, NY · Posted November 1, 2026
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About the job
A consumer AI startup built around an assistant that arranges and reserves hotels, restaurants and other experiences within a single chat is hiring a full-stack AI engineer. Nobody owns one narrow domain: engineers shape the agent, the recommendation engine, partner integrations, the website and the underlying infrastructure, converting model capabilities into something that handles actual reservations correctly.
Areas of work
Personalization: infer individual preferences, drawing on a user’s inbox when they allow it, to sharpen hotel and restaurant suggestions
Ranking and retrieval: build an in-house system that surfaces options already suited to each user, rather than depending on large foundation models alone
The agent itself: a conversational assistant that plans and reserves across many turns, calling tools, streaming responses and handling real payments
Coverage: help people reserve places the company cannot book directly
Close collaboration with partner business teams, marketing, finance and the CEO, plus daily shipping to production
Traits we look for
A bachelor’s in engineering, computer science or a related discipline, plus at least one year working full time as an engineer
Hands-on experience building with LLMs over time, and an approach that has evolved as models improved
Full-stack range across frontend, backend, data, infrastructure and integrations
Taste and judgment on products where quality is subjective, such as search, recommendations or conversation
Clear written and spoken communication and willingness to push back with reasons
Daily use of AI coding tools and genuine opinions about travel, food or hotels
Experience with TypeScript, Go and Postgres is useful; ML research and model training backgrounds are not the focus
Hybrid in New York, NY, with work done in person. No visa sponsorship.