AI Engineer (Backend)
Core
Designing and shipping production-grade AI agents and the underlying orchestration platform to help travelers manage complex trips across airlines, hotels, and payments.
Role type
Senior AI Engineer (Agent Orchestration & Platform)
Builds
Chat-based AI assistant platform, agent orchestration engine, runtime, and evaluation systems for travel management.
Domain
Travel technology, AI agents, LLM systems
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
AI agent development, LLM system design, agent orchestration, RAG pipelines, prompt engineering, eval frameworks, system design, API integration, technical leadership
Preferred skills
Travel industry experience, flights/hotels domain knowledge
Technologies
Elixir, TypeScript
Responsibilities
Design and ship end-to-end AI agents that interact with Duffel's APIs; build the core orchestration and runtime platform; develop retrieval and grounding systems for accurate responses; create evaluation frameworks for agent quality; establish memory and personalization primitives.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with technical direction