Prophetic Technologies Inc - Sr. Research Engineer
Requirements
• PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related quantitative field — or equivalent depth built in industry. • 5+ years of software engineering experience shipping production systems. • Strong systems engineering: data pipelines, orchestration, and agentic systems running in production. • Experience scaling large systems around model inference and data processing — throughput limits, cost control, batch orchestration, and what breaks at hundreds of millions of rows. • Deep, hands-on experience with LLMs in production, including prompt and context engineering and evaluation. • Strong Python skills and comfort owning your own deployments. • Experience with geospatial data (PostGIS, spatial analysis, satellite imagery). • Experience with optimization or computational geometry. • 2+ years at an early-stage startup. • Background in proptech or real estate data.
Responsibilities
• Build and improve the AI systems powering SearchAI, ZoneAI, SiteAI, CouncilAI, and DevMap. • SearchAI finds the parcels in a market that can actually support what you want to build. • ZoneAI reads municipal zoning ordinances nationwide and turns them into structured, parcel-level buildability rules. • SiteAI generates road and lot layouts on a real parcel and reports how many homes it will actually yield. • CouncilAI harvests city council and planning commission agendas and minutes to surface development and entitlement activity as it happens. • DevMap detects and attributes residential development nationwide, with lot, builder, and • Design agentic harnesses that discover, crawl, and extract from thousands of municipal and county sources, then make them code-driven, efficient, and reliable enough to run nationwide. • Work with our evals team to build the ground-truth and benchmark sets, then use them to drive real accuracy gains on extraction and inference. • Scale inference and data processing: throughput, cost, and failure handling across national runs over hundreds of millions of records. • Work with geospatial data at scale: parcel geometry, zoning, topography, and market data permitting across all 50 states. • Ship production-quality code in our pipelines and services, and integrate research outputs into the platform. • Collaborate with engineering on architecture decisions and with product on feature prioritization. • Evaluate and integrate new AI capabilities as the field evolves.
Benefits
• The team. Wide expertise, sharp, low ego, and genuinely fun to work with. We have each other's backs and we celebrate wins together. • Real ownership and impact from day one. Our customers make million-dollar decisions on our platform. Your work matters immediately. • AI-native product and AI-native workflows. Every team — engineering, sales, operations — runs on AI tooling daily. • Founder-led transparency. Leadership shares the financials, the strategy, and the hard calls with the whole team. • High growth, high demand. The product works, customers love it, and we are hiring to keep up. No shortage of opportunity here. • Flexibility. Remote, hybrid, or in-office with a great Portland, OR headquarters. • Self-starters who thrive in ambiguity. We're a startup. If you need someone to tell you what to do every morning, this isn't the place; if you come alive solving hard problems with smart people, it is. • 100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for you; 30% coverage for dependents • Competitive salary and meaningful early-stage equity • Unlimited PTO • Hybrid/Remote stipend • In-office perks: snacks, drinks, coffee, ping-pong table, and more — plus cuddles from Olive, our in-office Doberman! • Budget for intra-office travel • 2–3 annual team meetups in person • These four themes are how we think, build, and lead: • Truth — Say the hard thing. We speak plainly, flag problems early, and share what's actually going on. • Precision — Sign your name to it. Our customers make million-dollar decisions on our data. We get the details right. • Velocity — Speed compounds. Waiting doesn't. We ship daily and launch features every two to three weeks. • Ownership — Own it, then solve it. We own outcomes, not tasks. If something's broken, we fix it.
Apply in one click
Upload My Resume
Drop here or click to browse · Tap to choose · PDF, DOCX, DOC, RTF, TXT