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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Founding Software Engineer - AI & Operations (Full-Stack) - **Company:** UNITED CONCRETE INC - **Location:** Wallingford, CT, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Experienced - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Routing, Procurement Software, Large Language Models, Front End Software Development, Api Management - **Published:** August 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=c2cba2b96658928f ## About the Role * 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 ## Description + 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. 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