Senior AI Engineer I

PORCH INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED; India; Hybrid; INR 2,475,000 - 3,465,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Accident insurance

Retiral benefits

12 company-paid holidays

Flexible holidays

Job summary

Porch Group in India is hiring a Senior AI Engineer I to own the end-to-end document ingestion and extraction pipeline, converting multi-format inspection reports into structured data. You will define the canonical schema, preserve verbatim source text, and build reliable evaluation and human-in-the-loop workflows.

You will work with a domain expert to align taxonomy, calibrate confidence thresholds, and optimize cost and latency per document in a production environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years hands-on with Software Engineer and ML/AI systems.
• Experience with production ML/AI systems, NLP and document extraction pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with OCR and layout-aware parsing of heterogeneous documents.
• Experience designing evaluation harnesses and with precision/recall metrics.
• Experience building human-in-the-loop review workflows.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals; able to own a system end-to-end.
• Must work with US-based business teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and own the document ingestion and extraction pipeline: PDF and HTML input, text-layer and scanned documents, OCR fallback, layout-aware parsing.
• Design the canonical output schema and map heterogeneous source formats onto it.
• Implement span grounding with verbatim source text and origin locator.
• Build the evaluation harness with labeled data and per-field precision/recall.
• Calibrate confidence thresholds for auto-accept vs human review.
• Design and build the human-in-the-loop review workflow with product and design partners.
• Own unit economics: cost and latency per document, caching, batching.
• Instrument the system to surface silent failures and monitor drift in production.
• Partner with a domain expert to define taxonomy and labeling guidelines.

Skills

ML/AI systems

NLP extraction

OCR parsing

End-to-end ownership

English fluency

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Master’s preferred

Tools

OCR

PDF/HTML processing

LLMs/NLP tools

Job description

Job Summary

Porch Group is a leading vertical software and insurance platform and is positioned to be the best partner to help homebuyers move, maintain, and fully protect their homes. We offer differentiated products and services, with homeowners insurance at the center of this relationship. We differentiate and look to win in the massive and growing homeowners insurance opportunity by 1) providing the best services for homebuyers 2) led by advantaged underwriting in insurance 3) to protect the whole home As a leader in the home services software-as-a-service ("SaaS") space, we’ve built deep relationships with approximately 30 thousand companies that are key to the home-buying transaction, such as home inspectors, mortgage companies, and title companies. In 2020, Porch Group rang the Nasdaq bell and began trading under the ticker symbol PRCH. We are looking to build a truly great company and are JUST GETTING STARTED.

Job Title: Senior AI Engineer I Location: India Workplace Type: Hybrid

The future is bright for the Porch Group, and we’d love for you to be a part of it as our Senior AI Engineer I. We are building an AI layer that reads professional inspection reports — produced in a dozen incompatible formats by a dozen different vendor tools — and turns them into structured, actionable data for the people who have to act on them, without ever altering the inspector’s original wording. This is a founding AI engineering role: you will own the extraction pipeline end to end, from ingestion and parsing through model selection, evaluation, confidence thresholds, and the human review loop. You will work directly with a domain expert to define what “correct” means, and you will be the person accountable for knowing whether the system is getting better or worse. This is a production engineering role, not a research role — success is measured in recall on real documents, not in novel methods. If you want to build the foundational AI infrastructure for a category-defining product and see your work ship straight into production, this is that role.

What You Will Do

As a Senior AI Engineer I build and own the document ingestion and extraction pipeline: PDF and HTML input, text-layer and scanned documents, OCR fallback, layout-aware parsing.

• Design the canonical output schema and the extraction logic that maps heterogeneous source formats onto it.
• Implement span grounding — every extracted field carries the verbatim source text and a locator back to its origin. Preserving source text exactly is a hard product requirement, not a preference.
• Build the evaluation harness: labeled golden set, per-field precision and recall, regression suite that runs on every prompt, model, or pipeline change.
• Calibrate confidence scoring and set the thresholds that decide what auto-accepts versus what routes to human review.
• Design and build the human-in-the-loop review workflow with the product and design partners.
• Own unit economics: cost and latency per document, model tiering, caching, batching.
• Instrument the system so silent failures surface, and monitor drift and regression in production.
• Partner with a domain expert to define the taxonomy, adjudicate edge cases, and maintain labeling guidelines.

What You Will Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (Master’s preferred).
• 5+ years of hands‑on with Software Engineer and ML/AI systems.
• Strong experience building and owning production ML/AI systems, ideally involving LLMs, NLP, or document/information extraction pipelines.
• Hands‑on experience with OCR, layout‑aware parsing, and processing heterogeneous document formats (PDF, HTML, scanned images).
• Experience designing evaluation harnesses and working with precision/recall or similar quality metrics for ML systems.
• Experience building or partnering closely on human‑in‑the‑loop review workflows.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, with the ability to own a system end to end in a production environment.
• Proven experience working with US based business teams.
• Excellent written and communication skills in English language.
• Must currently reside in or are located within 150 km of Greater Delhi NCR, Greater Bangalore, or Greater Pune.

Working Hours: 8 Hours (Excluding breaks): 4 Core US Hours Overlap (7:30pm- 11:30pm IST) & 4 flexible hours (IST) Workspace: A quiet space to work, an internet connection of at least 30 Mbps download | 10 Mbps upload.

The application window for this position is anticipated to close in 2 weeks (10 business days) from September 29, 2026. Please know this may change based on business and interviewing needs.

What You Will Get As A Porch Group Team Member

Pay Range: 2,475,000 – 3,465,000 INR annually

• Our benefits package will provide you with comprehensive coverage for your health, life, and financial well‑being.
• Our benefits include medical insurance, accident insurance and retiral benefits.
• Our wellness programs include 12 company‑paid holidays, 2 flexible holidays, privilege/earned leave, casual/sick leave, paid maternity and paternity Leaves, and weekly wellness events.

Porch is committed to building an inclusive culture of belonging that not only embraces the diversity of our people but also reflects the diversity of the communities in which we work and the customers we serve. We know that the happiest and highest performing teams include people with diverse perspectives that encourage new ways of solving problems, so we strive to attract and develop talent from all backgrounds and create workplaces where everyone feels seen, heard and empowered to bring their full, authentic selves to work.

Porch is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex including sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.

We are a leading vertical software and insurance platform and are positioned to be the best partner to help homebuyers move, maintain, and fully protect their homes. We offer differentiated products and services, with homeowners insurance at the center of this relationship. We differentiate and look to win in the massive and growing homeowners insurance opportunity by providing the best services for homebuyers, being led by advantaged underwriting in insurance, and protecting your whole home. As a leader in the home services software‑as‑a‑service ("SaaS") space, we’ve built deep relationships with approximately 30 thousand companies that are key to the home‑buying transaction, such as home inspectors, mortgage companies, and title companies. In 2020, Porch Group rang the Nasdaq bell and began trading under the ticker symbol PRCH.

No Jerks / No Egos Be Ambitious Solve Each Problem Care Deeply Together We Win

At Porch Group, we’re committed to an inclusive work culture where everyone is respected. We trust our team members with significant responsibilities, which creates true ownership opportunities and meaningful contributions. This culture of empowerment and accountability drives individual personal growth and our overall company’s success!

In 2020, Porch Group rang the Nasdaq bell and began trading under the ticker symbol PRCH. We are looking to build a truly great company and are JUST GETTING STARTED. Today, we are a truly global team hiring for positions (many fully remote) across the United States, Mexico, and India.