Applied AI Engineer 5425

3-Month Contract-to-Hire

Fully Remote in EST possibly with some travel (5-10%)

U.S. Citizens and Green Card holders only

Why This Opportunity?

This is a chance to become the second member of a newly formed AI team and help shape the future of AI across a growing $800M organization.

You'll partner directly with the AI Team Lead to own and evolve an AI-powered platform while identifying new opportunities to leverage AI, automation, and intelligent workflows across the business.

If you're looking for a role where you can combine AI engineering, product thinking, customer interaction, and business impact, this is it.

What You'll Be Working On

The flagship product is an internally developed AI-powered platform that helps construction estimators generate takeoffs and bills of material from blueprint documents.

The platform leverages:

• Python
• Azure AI Services
• PyTorch
• React / TypeScript
• Terraform
• SQL

You'll own the continued success of the platform while helping build the next generation of AI-powered solutions, automations, and AI agents across the organization.

What You'll Do

Own and Improve an AI Product

• Support and enhance a production AI application used by the business
• Troubleshoot issues and drive continuous improvement
• Improve system performance, reliability, and user adoption
• Partner directly with end users to understand pain points and deliver solutions

Build AI Solutions That Matter

• Fine-tune and optimize AI/ML models
• Design and implement AI-driven product enhancements
• Build AI agents and workflow automations
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies and identify practical business use cases

Partner with the Business

• Work directly with estimators and operational teams
• Translate business challenges into technical solutions
• Rapidly prototype and validate new ideas
• Help define the future AI roadmap

What We're Looking For

Required Skills

• Strong Python development experience
• Experience training, tuning, deploying, and supporting AI/ML models
• Azure or cloud-based AI platform experience
• Strong SQL and database knowledge
• Experience integrating APIs and third-party services
• Familiarity with React, TypeScript, and modern web applications
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, etc.)

What Makes Someone Successful Here

• Builder mentality
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Comfortable working in ambiguity
• Excellent communicator with both technical and non-technical users
• Customer-focused mindset
• Ability to wear multiple hats and move quickly

Nice-to-Have Experience

Not required, but highly relevant:

• OCR and Document Intelligence
• Construction or manufacturing workflows
• Blueprint processing
• CAD and PDF-based document workflows
• Estimating and takeoff processes
• Bluebeam

Team & Culture

You'll join a very small, highly visible team where your contributions will have an immediate impact.

This is an ideal opportunity for someone who enjoys:

• Building new capabilities from the ground up
• Working closely with business stakeholders
• Having a voice in technical decisions
• Making a measurable impact instead of supporting legacy systems

The AI team is currently just the AI Team Lead and this hire, providing significant ownership and exposure from day one.

Compensation

3-Month Contract-to-Hire

The team is focused more on capability and potential than years of experience.

Target conversion ranges:

• $85K-$105K for early-career AI engineers with the right skills
• $130K-$150K+ for more experienced candidates

Ideal Candidate

Someone with strong AI and Python skills who wants to move beyond being "just an engineer" and become a trusted partner in building products, solving business problems, and shaping the future of AI within a growing organization.