Founding Software Engineer - AI & Operations (Full-Stack)

• We recently caught a $6,000 forklift parts invoice that a 5-minute manual price check found for half the cost. We want an OCR + LLM pipeline that catches every one of those automatically.
• We have 10+ years of sales history and no forecasting. Every busy season, high-demand products stock out. You’ll build the model that flags shortfalls before they happen.
• A heater once ran all winter and nobody noticed until the bill review - years later. You’ll build anomaly detection on energy and utility data so that never happens again.
• Direct P&L impact. Your code will save real money, measurably, within months - not “improve engagement metrics.”
• You’ll work across the whole business: production scheduling, dispatch and truck routing (including oversized loads), job cost accounting, predictive maintenance, procurement, and compliance.

What you’ll build (first 12-18 months)

• AI invoice auditing - OCR + LLM pipeline that extracts line items from scanned vendor invoices and checks them against market pricing, with human review where errors are costly
• Demand forecasting - ML/time-series models on a decade of sales data, cross-referenced with mold inventory, to recommend what to pour next
• Unified inventory & job costing - one system for raw materials, finished goods, labor hours, and purchases tied to specific jobs
• Route & load planning - truck routing by weight capacity, trailer selection for over-weight/over-width loads, freight costs flowing into job cost sheets
• Predictive maintenance - evaluate our existing MaintainX deployment (keep it, replace it, or integrate it - your call), then use maintenance history to flag high-wear parts before they fail

• Compliance & alerts - fleet registrations, insurance, inspections, and real-time shipping/receiving notifications, Bonus points: manufacturing/logistics/construction software, route optimization or constraint problems, anomaly detection on time-series data, AI-assisted procurement tools. You’re probably not a fit if

• You want a large engineering org, a defined career ladder, and someone else deciding the architecture
• You need a product manager between you and your users
• You’re only interested in fully remote work

• 3+ years of professional engineering experience, including at least one production system you owned end-to-end (data model API UI)
• Strong full-stack fundamentals: a modern backend language, solid SQL/relational design, and a modern frontend framework - we care more about judgment than any specific stack
• You’ve shipped LLM API integrations into production (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) - structured, task-specific automation, not chatbot demos
• You’ve worked with OCR / document extraction and turned messy scans into clean, queryable data
• You know when a simple regression beats a fancy model - and when AI doesn’t earn its complexity
• You use AI coding assistants (Claude Code, Copilot) daily and ship faster because of it
• You genuinely enjoy sitting down with a dispatcher or plant manager, understanding their manual process, and turning it into software they actually adopt
• You’re self-directed and comfortable being the first engineer

Pulled from the full job description Health insurance 401(k) matching Dental insurance Paid holidays 401(k) 10% Match, * Paid Vacation

• Paid Holidays and Sick Time
• Company 401K 10% Match
• Group Medical and Dental