AI Engineer - Computer Vision

Glocomms; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Glocomms is hiring a Senior Software Engineer focused on document processing, OCR, and data extraction quality. You will own mission-critical systems that transform complex, unstructured documents into reliable data for AI-powered workflows across OCR, document understanding, and extraction pipelines.

You will collaborate with AI engineers to improve extraction accuracy and support workflow automation, with emphasis on reliability, performance, and edge-case handling in regulated environments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Production-grade document processing, OCR, extraction, or data systems experience.
• Strong backend fundamentals and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with unstructured data formats like PDFs, images, or spreadsheets.
• Ownership mindset and ability to work independently.

Responsibilities

• Build and enhance OCR and document extraction systems.
• Design pipelines for processing PDFs, spreadsheets, images, and unstructured documents.
• Improve extraction accuracy, reliability, and performance in production.
• Develop validation frameworks and confidence scoring for extracted data.
• Collaborate with AI engineers to enable document-derived data for ML workflows.
• Investigate extraction failures and continuously improve quality.
• Build tooling to monitor document processing performance.
• Support workflow automation reliant on high-quality document understanding.

Skills

Backend engineering

Document processing

OCR systems

Data extraction

Debugging

Job description

This company is building the trust and operational infrastructure that enables organizations to safely adopt and scale AI-driven workflows.

Their initial focus is on document-intensive, highly regulated environments where accuracy, reliability, and security are critical. The platform helps businesses automate complex processes, deploy AI responsibly, and modernize operational workflows.

The Role

We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer focused on document processing, OCR, and data extraction quality.

This role will own mission-critical systems that transform complex, unstructured documents into reliable, usable data for AI-powered workflows. You will work across OCR, document understanding, extraction pipelines, validation systems, and workflow automation to ensure high-quality outputs from source documents.

Why This Role Matters

Many business processes rely heavily on documents, including financial records, reports, invoices, contracts, schedules, spreadsheets, images, and PDFs.

The quality of document processing directly impacts platform performance, customer trust, and the ability to automate complex workflows at scale. This role plays a key part in improving extraction accuracy, system reliability, and overall product quality.

What You'll Do

• Build and enhance OCR and document extraction systems


• Design pipelines for processing PDFs, spreadsheets, images, and structured or unstructured documents


• Improve extraction accuracy, reliability, and performance for production workflows


• Develop validation frameworks and confidence scoring systems for extracted data


• Collaborate with AI engineers to make document-derived data usable in machine learning and LLM workflows


• Partner with domain and product experts to understand document variations and edge cases


• Investigate extraction failures and continuously improve processing quality


• Build tooling to monitor, evaluate, and measure document processing performance


• Support workflow automation initiatives that depend on high-quality document understanding

Who You Are

• 5+ years of software engineering experience


• Experience building production-grade document processing, OCR, extraction, or data systems


• Strong backend engineering fundamentals


• Excellent debugging, problem-solving, and data quality instincts


• Experience working with PDFs, spreadsheets, images, or other unstructured data formats


• Comfortable building systems where accuracy, reliability, and correctness are essential


• Strong sense of ownership and ability to work independently

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with OCR, computer vision, document AI, or information extraction systems


• Experience working with LLMs or AI-powered document workflows


• Background in regulated or document-heavy industries such as financial services, legal, insurance, compliance, or accounting


• Experience building evaluation frameworks or quality measurement systems


• Experience scaling large document-processing pipelines in production environments