Founding AI/ML Engineer

PulseRise Technologies

Founding AI/ML Engineer building production-grade AI systems transforming construction. Collaborate with founders to enhance automation through multimodal intelligence and workflow automation.

Posted 6/4/2026full-timePhiladelphia • District of Columbia, New York, Pennsylvania • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

Requirements

What you’ll need

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 Have 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

Benefits

Comp & perks

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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Hard Skills & Tools

AI systemsmultimodal pipelinesretrieval systemsembeddingschunkingAPIsdatabasescloud deploymentinference optimizationevaluation systems

Soft Skills

end-to-end ownership mindsetengineering culture shapingiterationprototypingcustomer-facing features