Job Description
Founding AI/ML Engineer — Guthrie AI David Joseph & Company Philadelphia, PA Job Details Full-time $175,000 - $240,000 a year 6 hours ago Benefits Visa sponsorship Health insurance Meals & incidentals stipend Qualifications Performance monitoring Software engineering Startup experience Tooling Databases Cloud infrastructure implementation Model deployment APIs Production monitoring Developing and maintaining backend systems System deployment Cloud monitoring MLOps Full Job Description Founding AI/ML Engineer —
Guthrie AI Location:
Philadelphia, PA • New York City, NY • Washington, DC corridor (Remote-first with Philadelphia hub) Compensation:
$175,000 - $240,000 base + meaningful early-employee equity Visa Sponsorship:
H-1B, F-1, OPT, and STEM OPT
supported Experience Level:
6+ years Employment Type:
Full-Time About Guthrie AI Guthrie AI is building the AI-powered workflow layer for one of the world's largest industries: construction. Headquartered in Philadelphia with a remote-first team and a newly opened Philly hub office, the company has approximately $2M ARR on its core product and recently closed a seed round — with plans to grow revenue 10x over the next 12 months. Construction has resisted meaningful software innovation for more than 15 years, particularly among subcontractors. Guthrie believes agents and multimodal AI are the first technologies capable of fundamentally transforming how construction teams operate. About the Role Guthrie is hiring a Founding AI/ML Engineer to architect and ship production-grade AI systems that solve real customer problems. This is not a research role or a demo-focused position. The company is looking for product-minded engineers who can build reliable AI workflows used daily by customers. The role reports directly to the Chief AI Officer and works closely with founders and customers. What You'll Own Build and ship production-grade AI systems used by real customers Design multimodal pipelines for drawings, specifications, and construction documents Build agentic workflows that automate document intake, extraction, takeoff support, bid preparation, and QA Build and improve retrieval systems, evaluation systems, and orchestration layers Improve model quality, latency, reliability, and cost efficiency Prototype and iterate on customer-facing AI features Own systems end to end from experimentation through deployment Help shape engineering culture and technical direction Requirements 6+ years of engineering experience including experience at an early-stage startup Production AI/ML systems deployed to real customers Hands-on experience with LLMs, computer vision, segmentation models, or applied ML systems Retrieval experience — embeddings, reranking, chunking, knowledge bases, and source-grounded answers Agentic workflow experience — tools, APIs, state management, retries, guardrails, and observability Strong backend engineering fundamentals — APIs, async processing, queues, databases, cloud deployment, and monitoring End-to-end ownership from problem definition through deployment Nice to Have Construction, AEC, glazing, curtain wall, or architectural metals experience Multimodal AI, OCR, document intelligence, or computer vision background Experience converting human-operated workflows into products Inference optimization or evaluation systems experience This Role Is NOT For Research-focused candidates without production deployment experience Demo-only builders without customer-facing systems Engineers who over-rely on AI tools without strong architectural judgment Consumer-only or developer-tool backgrounds without enterprise software experience Benefits Employer-funded health insurance through Patch Team stipend and meal stipend Meaningful early-employee equity grant Interview Process Initial screen (30-minute hiring manager interview) Getting-to-know-you round with product leadership, co-founders, and CEO ~2-hour technical / architecture round Optional on-site visit to Philadelphia office Offer Logistics Remote-first — Philadelphia / New York / Washington DC corridor preferred Philadelphia hub office available H-1B, F-1, OPT, and STEM OPT
visa sponsorship available Shortlisted candidates will be contacted by David Joseph & Co. , the recruiting partner managing this search on behalf of Guthrie AI.
