Founding AI/ML Engineer (Remote)
PulseRise Technologies•Washington, DC
•Hybrid
About The Position
We are hiring a Founding AI/ML Engineer to architect and ship production-grade AI systems transforming one of the world’s largest and least automated industries — construction. This is a product-first AI engineering role focused on multimodal intelligence, document understanding, and agentic workflow automation. You will work directly with the Chief AI Officer and founders to move from low-automation to high-automation mode, where AI agents perform core operational work with light human oversight.
Requirements
- 6+ years of engineering experience
- Experience at an early-stage, high-growth startup
- Shipped production-grade AI systems to real customers
- Hands-on LLM and/or computer vision experience
- Retrieval systems experience (embeddings, chunking, grounding)
- Agentic workflow experience (tools, APIs, state management, retries, guardrails)
- Strong backend fundamentals: APIs, Async jobs / queues, Databases, Cloud deployment, Monitoring
- Full end-to-end ownership mindset
Nice To Haves
- Construction / AEC exposure
- Multimodal AI or document intelligence background
- OCR / segmentation / computer vision experience
- Experience converting human-operated workflows into AI product systems
- Inference optimization or evaluation system expertise
Responsibilities
- Build and ship production-grade AI systems used daily by real customers
- Design multimodal pipelines for drawings, specs, and construction documents
- Build agentic workflows automating preconstruction tasks: Document intake, Extraction, Takeoff support, Bid preparation, QA workflows
- Build and improve: Retrieval systems (embeddings, reranking, chunking), Evaluation systems, Orchestration layers
- Optimize model quality, latency, reliability, and cost efficiency
- Prototype and iterate quickly on customer-facing AI features
- Own systems end-to-end (experiment → deploy → monitor → improve)
- Help shape engineering culture and long-term technical direction
Benefits
- Meaningful early-employee ESOP grant
- Employer-funded health insurance (Patch model)
- Team / meal stipend
- Growth path to technical leadership (optional management track)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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