CloudChef Inc

About CloudChef

CloudChef’s autonomous cooking platform replaces human skill and judgment in cooking with AI, sensors, and appliance actuators democratizing access to the world’s best foods.

We are able to replicate Michelin-star dishes more accurately than Michelin-star kitchens themselves while working with low-skilled, contextless labor.

CloudChef is a low-cost and easy-to-install upgrade on existing kitchens. Our actuators plug into any traditional cooking appliance with a knob, the sensors are cheap + readily available and our software does all the heavy lifting.

Restaurants are using CloudChef to open outlets faster, by not having to worry about their 2 biggest operational issues - skilled labor and consistency. We are also starting to see institutional caterers, meal kit companies and hotels using CloudChef to license and stream recipes from across the world.

Demo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSilM6XoWek

The Role

As a core software engineer, you will lead development for the Kitchen Operating System (Kitchen OS) - the central orchestration and scheduling software. It is responsible for converting a kitchen production plan into atomic tasks that are scheduled and managed at different appliances/areas in the kitchen.

The operating system monitors the kitchen appliances through digital twins, and schedules atomic tasks to ensure the kitchen production plan runs on time. To do this it constantly communicates with a host of IoT devices using a Python Multiprocessing system.

In addition, you will also contribute to the Kitchen Manager - a set of web interfaces that allows users to plan and manage cooking schedules and inventory by interfacing with our kitchen operating system.

In this role, you will -

• Own the development and deployment of all Kitchen OS features
• Own all technical decision-making (including architecture, frameworks, etc.) and programming for the Kitchen OS.
• Up-skill yourself and scale the engineering team for Kitchen OS
• Collaborate with the engineering team to deliver features for the Kitchen Manager.

About you -

• 3+ years as an engineer at a product/tech-driven company. Startup experience is ideal.
• Proficient in Python multiprocessing (preferred) OR any other frameworks for real-time computing applications
• Intermediately skilled in React, Node.js, MongoDB
• Experience building systems, both on-premise and on cloud infrastructure, that can support complex integrations
• Ability to move fast in response to new insights, while having competing priorities or deadlines
• Use high agency responsibly

Our tech stack -

• Kitchen Operating System - Python multiprocessing
• Kitchen Manager - React, Node.js
• Databases - MongoDB and GraphQL
• IoT communication - MQTT and C++
• ML - evolving stack
• Others - mobile Android

Compensation -

$30K - $38K per annum + ESOPs

Location -

Remote, Mumbai

The Team

CloudChef was founded by Nikhil, Atish, and Mohit - friends from IIT Bombay, to originally solve their own problem - living away from home, couldn’t eat from thier favorite restaurants or even home food.

We are backed by several marquee investors like Susan Wojcicki(CEO of YouTube), Claire Hughes Johnson(COO of Stripe), Rocketship.vc, Tom Colicchio, etc.

We have intentionally kept a small team. We believe that we can de-risk our business most effectively at this stage by being a small team of driven builders - who take ownership of large chunks of work.

The core team members of CloudChef are Nikhil, Mohit, Atish, Sikander, Georgi, Prateek, Chef TZac.