Applied AI Engineer: ML Risk & Planning for Big Projects

Foresight Works; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental plan

Vision coverage

401(k) plan

PTO

Job summary

Foresight Works seeks an Applied AI Engineer to build and deploy the core ML engine for its platform. You will architect, train and deploy models for risk predictions and AI recommendations used by teams managing large construction programs.

You will own backend features end-to-end, collaborate with full-stack engineers, product, design and customers, and focus on scalable, observable systems with strong performance and reliability.

Qualifications

• 3+ years building and shipping ML models in production with backend ownership.
• 1+ years shipping VLM/LLM features to production.
• Strong Python backend skills (FastAPI, Django or similar).
• Relational data modelling in Postgres and ORM usage (SQLAlchemy).
• Experience with async workloads, queues, retries and observability.

Responsibilities

• Own features from design through release and beyond; measure adoption and iterate.
• Turn models into production features with frontend teams.
• Collaborate with product/design/customers to identify high-impact problems.
• Tune performance: accuracy, latency, reliability of the modelling stack.
• Improve architecture, testing, observability and deployment practices.
• Contribute to product and technical roadmap.

Skills

Python backend

Postgres data modelling

AWS

FastAPI or Django

Model deployment & monitoring

ML in production

Tools

SQLAlchemy

Docker

Kubernetes

S3/RDS

Job description

Foresight Works seeks an Applied AI Engineer to build and deploy the core ML engine for its platform. You will architect, train and deploy models for risk predictions and AI recommendations used by teams managing large construction programs.

You will own backend features end-to-end, collaborate with full-stack engineers, product, design and customers, and focus on scalable, observable systems with strong performance and reliability.