Senior AI Engineer — Document Intelligence

Tracium GmbH; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Tracium GmbH is seeking an experienced AI/ML Engineer to own the capabilities behind our document intelligence platform for complex manuals and engineering documents. You will drive extraction, validation, and production-ready AI workflows, collaborating with product and engineering teams.

The role emphasizes building robust pipelines, dealing with imperfect scans and complex layouts, and optimizing performance across environments. Strong Python and ML production experience are essential.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering AI or machine learning systems into production.
• Strong Python and software engineering skills.
• Practical experience with LLMs, structured extraction, retrieval, and evaluation.

Responsibilities

• Build pipelines for document parsing, OCR, layout understanding, and extraction from text, tables, and diagrams.
• Develop retrieval and AI workflows for technical question answering and maintenance information extraction.
• Design structured outputs with validation and references to source documents.
• Build evaluation datasets and measure extraction accuracy, retrieval quality, and unsupported outputs.
• Improve model performance, processing speed, and cost across cloud and private deployments.
• Work with product and engineering colleagues to bring prototypes into production.

Skills

Python

ML in production

Software engineering

English communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

PyTorch

Open-source ML frameworks

Job description

About Tracium

Tracium builds AI-assisted technical documentation software that turns complex manuals and engineering documents into structured, traceable information. Our initial focus is maritime, with applications across manufacturing, aerospace, and defence. We combine document intelligence with S1000D authoring to help technical teams extract maintenance information, create documentation, and verify AI-generated suggestions against their sources.

Your role

You will own the AI capabilities behind our document intelligence platform—from understanding complex PDFs to extracting information that engineers can review and use.

What you’ll do

• Build pipelines for document parsing, OCR, layout understanding, and extraction from text, tables, and diagrams.
• Develop retrieval and AI workflows for technical question answering and maintenance information extraction.
• Design structured outputs with validation and references to source documents.
• Build evaluation datasets and measure extraction accuracy, retrieval quality, and unsupported outputs.
• Improve model performance, processing speed, and cost across cloud and private deployments.
• Work with product and engineering colleagues to bring prototypes into production.

What you bring

• Experience delivering AI or machine learning systems into production.
• Strong Python and software engineering skills.
• Practical experience with LLMs, structured extraction, retrieval, and evaluation.
• An understanding of document processing challenges, including imperfect scans and complex layouts.
• The ability to investigate failures systematically and make clear technical trade-offs.
• Clear communication in English.

Useful additional experience

• Technical manuals, industrial documentation
• Multimodal models, open-source model deployment, or GPU inference
• Private, on-premises, or restricted-network environments.

Why join Tracium?

Help shape the core AI architecture of an early-stage product, work directly with the founders, and solve document problems with clear operational value.

We welcome applicants of all backgrounds.

You do not need to meet every listed requirement to apply.