Senior AI Systems Engineer — Remote & Nationwide

Prophetic Technologies Inc; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Unlimited PTO

Hybrid stipend

Office dog

Job summary

Prophetic Software is seeking a PhD-level or industry-depth AI engineer to join our research-to-production team. You will build, optimize, and ship AI-powered features across our platform handling zoning data, permits, and public records.

Expect collaboration with engineers and product to prioritize features used by land teams nationwide. You’ll work with a cross-disciplinary team on pipelines, models, and intelligence powering multiple AI-driven products, with a focus on reliability and scale

Qualifications

• PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related quantitative field or equivalent depth built in industry.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience shipping production systems.
• Deep, hands-on experience with LLMs in production, including prompt and context engineering and evaluation.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve AI systems powering SearchAI, ZoneAI, SiteAI, CouncilAI, and DevMap.
• Design agentic harnesses to crawl and extract from thousands of municipal and county sources.
• Scale inference and data processing across national runs of hundreds of millions of records.
• Work with geospatial data at scale: parcel geometry, zoning, topography, and market data across 50 states.
• Ship production-quality code and integrate research outputs into the platform.
• Collaborate with engineering on architecture decisions and with product on feature prioritization.
• Evaluate and integrate new AI capabilities as the field evolves.

Skills

PhD in CS or related

5+ years software engineering

LLMs in production

Python

Data pipelines

System design

MLOps

Education

PhD in Computer Science

Tools

Python tooling

PostGIS

Job description

Prophetic Software is seeking a PhD-level or industry-depth AI engineer to join our research-to-production team. You will build, optimize, and ship AI-powered features across our platform handling zoning data, permits, and public records.

Expect collaboration with engineers and product to prioritize features used by land teams nationwide. You’ll work with a cross-disciplinary team on pipelines, models, and intelligence powering multiple AI-driven products, with a focus on reliability and scale