Staff AI Engineer - Agentic Shopping

Teampicnic · Amsterdam Street, Area · Full-time

Description

<h1>In a nutshell&nbsp;</h1> <p><strong>Build the intelligence that helps households get the week sorted</strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Agentic grocery assistance:</strong> Picnic brings together something unusually powerful for an AI builder: a direct customer relationship, a live grocery assortment and the operational system that takes every order from intention to delivery. That gives you the opportunity to build an assistant that does more than talk; it can understand a household’s plans and constraints, assemble a grounded basket, explain its choices and learn from what customers accept or change. You will decide where models, retrieval, ranking and deterministic services add real value, balancing customer control, correctness, latency, reliability and cost.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Technical leadership &amp; vision: </strong>As a Staff AI Engineer, you will be the hands-on technical lead for Agentic Shopping. You will own technical direction, architecture and model-strategy decisions; solve the hardest production challenges yourself; and establish evaluation, observability, safety and fallback patterns that other teams can reuse.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h1>Tricks of the…