Software Developer

Peregrine Advisors; Washington; Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Peregrine Advisors is seeking engineers to build scalable document-intelligence services using OCR and AI in the cloud. You will own the end-to-end pipeline from OCR to extraction, validation, and routing decisions, with an emphasis on accuracy and auditability.

The role requires hands-on Python, experience with document processing in cloud environments (Textract or equivalents), and a pragmatic, outcome-driven mindset in a hybrid Washington, DC area setting.

Qualifications

• Experience building document-processing systems in Python
• Hands-on OCR extraction and validation workflows
• Ability to operate in regulated environments with audit trails

Responsibilities

• Design and implement document-intelligence pipelines at scale
• Build validation, matching, and decision-routing logic
• Collaborate with teams to deploy secure cloud-based solutions

Skills

Python

OCR

APIs

SQL

Cloud deployment

Tools

Amazon Textract

Job description

Peregrine Advisors is a firm founded on a simple conviction: the best solutions come from the people closest to the problem, given real ownership and the tools to deliver. We are a data and technology innovation hub and a Benefit Corporation working at the center of the federal government's mission to deliver for client stakeholders and the US public, looking for highly motivated contributors who thrive when trusted to own a hard problem and equipped to deliver the solution.

Your first assignment

Your first assignment is to help automate how a federal agency handles a high-volume stream of filer applications, turning a manual, document-heavy process into an intelligent pipeline that reads, understands, and routes each submission using optical character recognition (OCR) and artificial intelligence (AI) in the cloud. The work is real, hard, and it matters. It is also where you start, not the shape of your career here: we hire people, not seats, and we move our best to where the hardest problems are.

What you'll build

• Document-intelligence services that pull structure and meaning out of filings at scale, pairing OCR and AI with confidence scoring and the logic that decides what happens next.
• The validation and review around it: exact and fuzzy matching, business rules, and the human-review workflows that catch what the machine should not decide alone.
• In time, the firm itself: new capabilities, tools, and lines of business you help spin up.

Who you are

You have a hacker\'s mindset: you would rather ship a working prototype tonight than a perfect plan next week. You have built real document-processing systems in Python, and you move at the speed of the tools, not the clock. You experiment, fail, learn, and repeat, quickly. You would rather own an outcome than be handed a task.

What you bring

• Deep, hands-on Python and real experience building document-processing systems in the cloud (Amazon Textract or its equivalents), from OCR through extraction.
• The engineering around it: data validation, matching, and the APIs and SQL that move documents through to a decision.
• The judgment to build in a regulated environment where accuracy and auditability are not optional.

What you'll need

U.S. citizenship (this initial engagement may be staffed by U.S. citizens only) and the ability to obtain a Public Trust determination. This is a hybrid role based in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, and it requires commuting into DC regularly. Everything else, the years, the certifications, the specific tools, we ask in the application and get into during the interview.

What we offer

Fully paid medical, dental, and vision; a matched 401(k) with immediate vesting; unlimited paid time off; and sponsored certifications. Beyond that, work worth your best years.

What we commit to

As a Benefit Corporation, our commitment runs three ways: real, measurable value for our clients; government that works better for the public; and a team that makes everyone in it better.

We hire people who want to help build the firm, not just work at it. If that is you, apply.

Peregrine Advisors is an equal opportunity employer.