[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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