For over four decades, PAR Technology Corporation (NYSE: PAR) has been a leader in restaurant technology, empowering brands worldwide to create lasting connections with their guests. Our innovative solutions and commitment to excellence provide comprehensive software and hardware that enable seamless experiences and drive growth for over 100,000 restaurants in more than 110 countries. Embracing our "Better Together" ethos, we offer Unified Customer Experience solutions, combining point-of-sale, digital ordering, loyalty and back-office software solutions as well as industry-leading hardware and drive-thru offerings. To learn more, visit partech.com or connect with us on LinkedIn, X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, and Instagram.
About the Role
PAR is looking for a Senior /Staff AI Platform Engineer to build and scale our next-generation AI Platform that enables engineering teams to rapidly develop, deploy, and operate AI agents, agentic workflows, and GenAI-powered applications across PAR's restaurant technology products.
This role is ideal for an ML engineer enthusiast who knows both Python and .NET Platform, who is passionate about cloud-native architecture, distributed systems, developer platforms, and Generative AI. You will help build reusable AI services, orchestration frameworks, SDKs, and platform capabilities that power enterprise-grade AI solutions.
Key Responsibilities
Design and build scalable AI platform services, APIs, SDKs, and microservices using markdown and Python supporting a .NET codebase.
Develop Agentic AI capabilities, including multi-agent orchestration, agent lifecycle management, tool integration (MCP), memory, planning, reasoning, and workflow automation.
Build production-grade RAG pipelines, knowledge retrieval services, vector search, and semantic search capabilities.
Develop secure, multi-tenant AI platform services with governance, guardrails, content safety, and policy enforcement.
Build real-time streaming APIs, AI evaluation pipelines, observability, monitoring, and cost optimization for AI workloads.
Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and DevOps teams to build reusable AI capabilities and accelerate AI adoption across the organization.
What We're Looking For
7+ years of software engineering experience with strong expertise in ML/Python/agents and .NET.
Experience building scalable backend platforms, microservices, distributed systems, and cloud-native applications.
Hands-on experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, REST APIs, and CI/CD.
Experience with LLMs, Agentic AI, RAG architectures, LangChain, LangGraph, Amazon Bedrock, OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar AI frameworks.
Understanding of AI orchestration, prompt engineering, vector databases, AI security, and observability.
Strong communication, collaboration, and technical leadership skills.
Preferred Skills
AWS (EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, Bedrock, S3, CloudWatch, IAM)
.NET Core, FastAPI
LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, AutoGen, CrewAI
MCP (Model Context Protocol), A2A (Agent-to-Agent) protocols
Vector databases (OpenSearch, Pinecone, Weaviate)
OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Ragas
GitHub Actions, Terraform, Kubernetes
Why Join PAR?
Join a greenfield AI Platform team building the foundation for enterprise-scale Agentic AI. You'll help create reusable AI services, multi-agent orchestration, developer platforms, and intelligent automation capabilities that will power the next generation of PAR's restaurant technology products while working with cutting-edge AI technologies and global engineering teams.
Interview Process:
Interview #1: Phone Screen with Talent Acquisition Team
Interview #2: Video interview with the Technical Teams (via MS Teams/F2F)
Interview #3: Video interview with the Technical Teams (via MS Teams/F2F)
Interview #4: Video interview with the Hiring Manager (via MS Teams/F2F)
PAR is proud to provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. We also provide reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities in accordance with applicable laws. If you require reasonable accommodation to complete a job application, pre-employment testing, a job interview or to otherwise participate in the hiring process, or for your role at PAR, please contact [email protected]. If you’d like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant, please visit the US Department of Labor's website.
Skills Required
- 7+ years software engineering experience with strong expertise in ML, Python, agent development, and .NET
- Experience building scalable backend platforms, microservices, distributed systems, and cloud-native applications
- Hands-on experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, REST APIs, and CI/CD
- Experience with LLMs, Agentic AI, RAG architectures, LangChain, LangGraph, Amazon Bedrock, OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar AI frameworks
- Understanding of AI orchestration, prompt engineering, vector databases, AI security, and observability
- Strong communication, collaboration, and technical leadership skills
- .NET Core, FastAPI
- AWS specifics: EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, Bedrock, S3, CloudWatch, IAM
- LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, AutoGen, CrewAI
- MCP (Model Context Protocol), A2A (Agent-to-Agent) protocols
- Vector databases: OpenSearch, Pinecone, Weaviate
- OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Ragas
- GitHub Actions, Terraform, Kubernetes (as IaC/CI tooling experience)
PAR Technology Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about PAR Technology and has not been reviewed or approved by PAR Technology.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Policies highlight unlimited PTO for many roles, paid holidays and sick time, and generous parental and family leave. Time-off flexibility is emphasized alongside hybrid/remote options.
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Retirement Support — Offerings include a 401(k) with company matching and access to retirement-oriented savings programs. Financial benefits are presented as part of a comprehensive total rewards package.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — The benefits suite includes medical, dental, and vision coverage, mental health support through an EAP, wellness days, and fitness/wellness reimbursements. Additional perks such as stipends, snacks, and flexible work arrangements support day-to-day wellbeing.
PAR Technology Insights
What We Do
PAR is a leading global provider of software, systems, and service solutions to the restaurant and retail industries. Today, with 50+ years of experience and point of sale systems in nearly 100,000 restaurants and more than 110 countries, PAR is redefining the point of sale through cloud software and bringing technological innovation to all corners of the enterprise. PAR Technology Corporation's stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol PAR. For more information, visit www.partech.com. PAR Technology was founded in 1968 and its current CEO is Savneet Singh. Since its inception 55 years ago, PAR Technology has grown to 1500 employees.
Why Work With Us
At PAR, we believe we’ll win or lose through the culture we build. Our culture is built on 4 values: Speed, Ownership, Focus and Winning Together. For PAR to win, we need our customers, our employees, our suppliers, our shareholders, and our community to succeed. We believe by committing to these values in all our endeavors.
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