AI Engineer
tempoNew York (NY)
About the role
Every property has a PMS. Tempo is defining a new category: the Operations Management System (OMS), the cognitive layer for hotels. As the property brain, Tempo drives operational efficiency and NOI back to owners by understanding what needs to be done and dispatching the people, agents, and robotics to control hotel systems and steer operations.
We\'re working with top owner/operator groups and leading brands, backed by top investors out of Silicon Valley, New York, and Cambridge. This is an opportunity to have an outsize impact steering a company\'s product, market, and scale quickly.
The role:
This is a generalist seat with product ownership over the entire product suite. You\'ll move from agentic runtime, evaluations, and harnesses, to tools and domain infrastructure, to web and mobile front ends. You\'ll steer what gets built, not just how.
You willShip end to end across the stack, from the agent loop to the web and mobile surfaces a housekeeper or front desk agent actually touches
Define what correct means before you build. Write the evals for a dispatch, a report, or a handoff, then hold the system to them
Sit with hotel teams, watch how the work really happens, and turn that into product
Own problems, not tickets. Steer the roadmap with what you learn from production
The job, practicallyIn office 5 days/week, 8:30 to 5:30
Working directly with the head of engineering and founder
Occasional visits to customer properties to see the work firsthand
Small team, real hotels in production, no layers between you and what ships
Who you are:
AI-native. You build with models every day, have shipped agentic systems to production, and have opinions about where they break
A generalist who is comfortable moving between serverless backend, native, and LLM application stacks. Experience with the following technologies is helpful but not necessary: TypeScript, React/React Native, PostgreSQL, GCP
Care more about the workflow than the model. The hard part is what done means for a housekeeper at 2pm, not the API call
Want to steer product, not receive specs. Hospitality experience isn\'t required; curiosity about how operations actually run is
5+ years shipping production software
CompensationBase plus meaningful equity. Competitive package commensurate with experience.
Before you apply
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A number in mind
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Your notice period
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