Senior AI Engineer

PlanHub; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading pre-construction SaaS company is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to lead AI strategy, focusing on developing AI solutions on AWS. The role involves rapid prototyping and collaboration across teams. Candidates should have extensive experience in AI solution development, Python, and CI/CD automation. This position is remote within the US or Canada, offering a dynamic work culture and excellent benefits.

Benefits

Flexible time-off policy

Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance

401(k) plan with company match

Qualifications

• Proven track record in developing practical, production-grade AI solutions.
• 5+ years of Python development experience.
• 3+ years of CI/CD pipeline automation using containers.

Responsibilities

• Identify problems and solutions based on strategy.
• Build rapid prototypes and POCs.
• Develop MVP and production-grade AI and ML solutions.

Skills

AI solution development

Python development

CI/CD pipeline automation

RAG experience

Experience with multimodal LLMs

Agile development experience

Excellent communication skills

Education

10+ years of computer science fundamentals

Tools

AWS

FastAPI

Jupyter Notebooks

Job description

Overview

PlanHub is the leading pre-construction SaaS platform and marketplace helping general contractors, subcontractors, and suppliers connect and grow their businesses. Built with tradespeople in mind, PlanHub is designed around the user workflow to help boost productivity, maintain deadlines, increase revenue, and create relationships. Easily post projects or submit bids with anytime-anywhere collaboration for every commercial construction trade.

We’re seeking an experienced Senior AI Engineer with a strong AI development and software engineering background. This role leads our AI strategy and focuses on rapid prototype development, a durable AIOps/MLOps practice, and a roadmap delivering AI solutions to market, leveraging Generative AI and traditional AI (Machine Learning) on AWS.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Identify problems and solutions based on our Product and Technology strategy and ensure that the right AI approach is taken
• Build rapid prototypes and POCs that demo and evaluate the worth of AI solutions
• Develop MVP and production-grade AI and ML solutions that leverage Generative AI, agentic AI, and traditional Machine Learning (classifications, predictive analytics, deep learning) integrated with our SaaS and Mobile solutions for stellar user experiences
• Develop agentic AI solutions that solve real problems while architecting for performance, accuracy, cost, and safety using best-of-breed technologies on AWS
• Collaborate with AI Engineers, the broader Engineering team, Product, Customer Success, Marketing and other teams to understand customer needs, validate problem/solution fit, and gather feedback
• Apply a trust-first approach to AI development, emphasizing data quality, responsible AI practices, transparency, explainable AI, and cost optimization while maintaining high accuracy/relevance
• Assist in selecting third-party solutions, data sources, and services that complement our roadmap
• Work with data engineering to assess and improve data pipelines and data quality for training, tuning, and consumption in RAG and agent tasks
• Use and improve CI/CD pipelines for AI/ML development, including containers, microservices, and AWS infrastructure

What You’ll Need On Day One

• Proven track record in developing practical, production-grade AI solutions with traditional AI (machine learning, predictive analytics, classification) and Generative AI, including prompt engineering
• 5+ years of Python development experience and FastAPI or equivalent
• 3+ years of CI/CD pipeline automation using containers and microservices
• 2+ years of RAG experience with concepts such as HYDE, semantic search, chunking tuning, re-ranking, and experience with frameworks like LangChain, Haystack, or AWS Bedrock knowledge base
• 2+ years experience with multimodal LLMs
• 1+ years of experience developing agentic AI workflows using tools such as Bedrock Agents, LangChain, LangGraph, Autogen, Claude, OpenAI or equivalent, preferably on AWS
• 1+ years experience configuring guardrails for bias, content relevance and accuracy, with security and privacy practices against model jailbreaking and prompt injection
• 1+ years experience implementing AI QA practices to automate quality testing in AI CI/CD, including unit tests and drift detection
• 5+ years of experience developing customer-facing AI/ML solutions as well as internal business process AI/ML
• 3+ years experience with Jupyter Notebooks or equivalent for data analysis and solution thinking
• 10+ years of computer science fundamentals including high-performance algorithms and data structures
• 5+ years in a cloud environment with AWS or other providers, including caching and data flows
• 5+ years experience in an Agile development environment using Jira, Confluence, GitHub or equivalent
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

What Will Make You Stand Out

• Graph-based RAG and knowledge graph development experience using Neo4j or equivalent
• Development experience with vertical agents
• Model fine-tuning and prompt tuning experience with relevant frameworks
• Experience with Amazon Redshift, SageMaker
• Experience working with unstructured content, OCR, and computer vision systems for interpreting blueprints

What’s In It For You

The opportunity to join a dynamic team that earned a place on Inc. 5000 in 2024. You can make an immediate impact as PlanHub moves to dominate the industry.

PlanHub Offers

• An empowering culture where you can make an impact and learn a lot
• Flexible time-off policy
• Excellent benefits including medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
• 401(k)/RRSP plan with company match

This position is remote within the United States or Canada. Occasional trips to our West Palm Beach, FL office may be required. Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer within the United States or Canada. We are unable to sponsor work visas at this time.

PlanHub is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws. PlanHub complies with nondiscrimination laws in every location where the company operates.