Sr. Research Engineer

Prophetic is building an AI-native platform that helps homebuilders, developers, and investors find, analyze, and act on land opportunities using proprietary technologies and large-scale data processing. The Senior Research Engineer will work with the Chief AI Officer to develop agentic systems, data pipelines, geospatial intelligence, and machine learning applications, shipping production code that powers the company's AI products nationwide.

Responsibilities:

• Build and improve the AI systems powering SearchAI, ZoneAI, SiteAI, CouncilAI, and DevMap
• Design agentic harnesses that discover, crawl, and extract from thousands of municipal and county sources, then make them code-driven, efficient, and reliable enough to run nationwide
• Work with our evals team to build the ground-truth and benchmark sets, then use them to drive real accuracy gains on extraction and inference
• Scale inference and data processing: throughput, cost, and failure handling across national runs over hundreds of millions of records
• Work with geospatial data at scale: parcel geometry, zoning, topography, and market data permitting across all 50 states
• Ship production-quality code in our pipelines and services, and integrate research outputs into the platform
• Collaborate with engineering on architecture decisions and with product on feature prioritization
• Evaluate and integrate new AI capabilities as the field evolves