Software Engineer, AI (Early Career)
Company: Ande
Location: New York City
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-11-07
About this role
About Ande
Ande makes Corporate Entertainment Effortless. Marketing, sales, EAs and workplace teams use Ande’s AI to book client dinners, sports suites, catering, merch and more. Policies, spend and logistics are managed in one place, with one vendor.
Over 60 enterprises run their entertainment on Ande, with $400 million+ in annual entertainment spend flowing through a network of 93,000 entertainment providers across 90+ cities. Ande has raised $52 million+ in seed and Series A funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Duration Ventures and Sierra Ventures, with participation from Bain Capital Ventures.
## About the role
You will build the intelligence behind the Ande Agent. That's the concierge and its team of subagents that take a request from one sentence ("dinner for 12 with the Acme team next Thursday, somewhere private") to a confirmed, paid, on-policy booking.
This is not a chatbot or a demo. The agent acts on real money, on behalf of real executives, with real venues on the other end of the thread. You will ship to production from your first weeks, own real parts of the agent end to end, and work side by side with senior engineers who will review your work closely and help you grow fast.
## What you'll work on
- **The agent system.** Improve how the concierge and its subagents for sourcing, comparison and venue coordination plan, call tools and recover when something goes wrong. Find the failure in real conversations, fix it, and prove the fix.
- **Tools the agent can trust.** Build and extend the typed capabilities the agent uses to search, hold, book, pay and message, including the proposals a booker confirms before anything consequential happens.
- **Evals.** Write scenarios, graders and LLM judges, add every bug you fix as a case, and help keep the suite trustworthy enough that changes ship on the number.
- **Memory and supply data.** Build the pieces that turn every venue conversation into structured facts that make the nex...