[Remote] Founding AI/ML Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Guthrie AI is building AI-powered workflow solutions for the construction industry, aiming to innovate a sector that has seen little software advancement. They are seeking a Founding AI/ML Engineer to architect and deliver production-grade AI systems that address real customer needs within construction workflows.
Responsibilities
- Build and ship production-grade AI systems used by real customers
- Design multimodal pipelines for processing drawings, specifications, and construction documents
- Build agentic workflows that automate preconstruction tasks: document intake, extraction, takeoff support, bid preparation, QA
- Build and improve retrieval systems, evaluation systems, and orchestration layers
- Improve model quality, latency, reliability, and cost efficiency
- Prototype and iterate on customer-facing AI features
- Own systems end-to-end from experimentation through deployment
- Help shape engineering culture and technical direction
Skills
- 6+ years of engineering experience, with at least one prior role at an early-stage high-growth startup
- Production-grade AI systems shipped to real customers: practical hands-on experience with LLMs, computer vision, segmentation models, or other applied ML systems in production
- Retrieval systems experience: embeddings, reranking, chunking, source-grounded answers, knowledge bases
- Agentic workflow experience: tools, APIs, state management, retries, guardrails, observability
- Strong backend fundamentals: APIs, async jobs, queues, databases, cloud deployment, and monitoring. End-to-end ownership from problem definition through deployment
- Construction / AEC / glazing / curtain wall / architectural metals personal or professional exposure
- Multimodal AI, computer vision, or document intelligence / OCR background
- Prior experience converting human-operated workflows into a product (AI-native services thesis adjacency)
- Inference optimization or evaluation systems background
Benefits
- Meaningful early-employee grant. ESOP pool.
- Health insurance via Patch (employer-funded budget, employee-selected plan)
- Team / Meal Stipend
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