Founding Engineer - AI/ML
Core
Designing and building AI agents and infrastructure for custom manufacturing workflows, including quoting, assembly, and hardware management.
Role type
Founding AI/ML Engineer (Manufacturing Agents)
Builds
AI agents for DFM analysis, quoting, supplier operations, compliance, assembly management, and production intelligence; agentic ML systems ingesting CAD files for manufacturability risk identification and cost/lead-time estimation.
Domain
Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Industrial Operations
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
LLM-based agent development, prompt engineering, tool use, retrieval-augmented generation, agent orchestration frameworks, computer vision model fine-tuning, inference optimization, Python, PyTorch/JAX, HuggingFace, OpenCV, CAD file parsing (STEP/IGES/STL), Open CASCADE, cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure), containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), model serving.
Preferred skills
Experience with vision-language models (BLIP-2, SAM), prior work in manufacturing/supply chain/logistics/industrial operations, startup experience with minimal infrastructure.
Responsibilities
Own full AI/ML stack architecture, model selection, infrastructure, and deployment; ship working agents prioritizing function over perfection; work directly with founders on product direction; build data infrastructure (labeling pipelines, evaluation frameworks, feedback loops); define and track agent metrics (accuracy, precision/recall, false positive rates); partner with operations/quality teams to fix agent failures; help hire and set technical bar as team grows.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC (Founding)