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Our team brings deep experience from building and scaling iconic products at companies like Apple, Robinhood, and DoorDash.\nToday, we're a small, high-performing team of around 35 people based between New York and San Francisco. We value in-person collaboration and expect you to join us in our SF office (FiDi) at least three days a week.\nThe Role\nWe’re looking for an applied AI engineer to help us build the next generation of Atlas - starting with an AI-powered travel and hotel concierge used by some of the most influential people in the world.\nYou’ll design and ship real-world AI systems that personalize recommendations, automate complex requests, and rethink how payments, dining, and travel can work at the highest level.\nThis is a rare opportunity to work on meaningful, user-facing AI products inside a small, world-class team.\nWhat You'll Build\nAI recommendation and booking flows (hotels, dining, flights)\n\nRetrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems for dynamic hotel and travel searches\n\nPreference engines that learn and evolve from member interactions\n\nLightweight AI orchestration layers integrated with Zendesk, Slack, and our internal tools\n\nWhat We’re Looking For\n\n We believe determined and passionate people can adapt to any tech stack. 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