Founding Engineer – AI Agents for Restaurants

**You've put tool-using AI agents in production and debugged the harness yourself. Be the second technical co-founder in all but name.** A seed-stage startup in New York runs an agentic operating system for restaurant back-of-house work: inventory, ordering, prep and invoices. Signed restaurants grow week over week. You'd own the product from zero to one, from the agent that drafts a purchase order to the screen where a manager approves it, with agents that move real money every day. **What you'll own** * The agent harness: context, tool execution, state, failure recovery, human approval and evals * The product around it, from approval UIs to integrations * Customer conversations and the roadmap, with a voice in strategy from day one **Must-haves** * You've shipped tool-using LLM agents to production and built or debugged the harness itself * A product spike with taste: React and full stack (infra-only profiles won't fit) * A founder mentality: you own outcomes, not tickets * 1+ year of experience (roughly 1–3) * In the New York office at an intense early-startup pace, 9-9-6 **Bonus points** * Something you founded or built for real users * Early-employee time at a fast-scaling startup * A strong computer science education **What's in it for you** * $150k–$220k base + 1–3% equity * A founding seat with real influence on product and strategy **Good to know** * Full-time, in the New York office, 9-9-6 * Sponsorship is limited: please tell us your exact work authorization up front Process: phone screen with the CTO take-home (an open build with AI tools) review plus a system-design talk without AI conversation with the co-founder* offer **When you apply, please include** * Your CV (PDF), your **LinkedIn URL**, and GitHub or a link to something you built * An agent you put in production: architecture, failure modes, evals and cost * Your current location, and confirmation that the New York office on 9-9-6 works for you * Your visa or citizenship status, and if you'll need sponsorship * Your base salary expectation, your notice period, and any other interview processes you're in Does this sound like you? Apply now. If you're a match, we'll be in touch within 3 working days. *RnB Consultancy | Netherlands | 3604 AB Maarssen | KvK 71489703*