Guthrie AI — Founding AI/ML Engineer
Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States
Full Time
11 hours ago
$190,000 - $200,000 USD
H1B Sponsored
Key skills
AIMLComputer VisionRAGAgenticLeadership
About this role
David Joseph & Company is seeking a Founding AI/ML Engineer for Guthrie AI, which is building an AI-powered workflow layer for the construction industry. The role involves owning the model-development side of the platform, leading in-house model work, and providing technical leadership to the AI/ML team.
Responsibilities:
- Train and improve in-house computer vision models for construction diagrams (segmentation, object detection, classifiers)
- Lead architectural and model-improvement work where off-the-shelf models hit their ceiling
- Own the model-development roadmap and set technical direction for the AI/ML team
- Build agentic orchestration and retrieval flows (RAG, fine-tuning, local vs foundation model decisions, cost optimization)
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to the 2–3 existing AI/ML engineers (who will report to this hire)