Founding AI/ML Engineer (Remote)

PulseRise Technologies is seeking a Founding AI/ML Engineer to architect and ship production-grade AI systems for the construction industry. This role focuses on developing multimodal intelligence and automating workflows with minimal human oversight, working closely with the Chief AI Officer and founders.

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

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
• 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