This is a remote position.
Senior AI/ML Engineer — Founding Technical Lead (US)
Reports to: Founder (Cullen), with technical oversight from Fractional CTO
Manages: 2–4 junior engineers / interns
Vulcury is a venture studio building a portfolio of companies anchored by proprietary semantic infrastructure. Our two lead ventures are Trustbridge, a manufacturing and supply chain matchmaking platform, and Calisade, an investment research and asset management venture with a strong performance track record. We are backed by a committed lead investor and operate with a small, deliberately senior team.
This is a founding technical role. You will be the first senior engineer in the company and the day-to-day technical leader for everything we build.
We are hiring one person to own the build-out of our first production product (the Trustbridge supplier app) and to grow into the senior technical anchor across the entire studio. This is not a contractor role and not a project hire. We are looking for someone who wants a long-horizon seat at a company in formation, with the range to be redeployed across multiple problem domains as the portfolio matures.
In your first six months you will ship a real product to real users. In year two you will help define the cross-portfolio data and AI infrastructure that becomes our durable competitive advantage. In year three, if things go well, you will be leading a team.
Own the technical build of the first-generation Trustbridge supplier app end-to-end: architecture, model selection, agent design, inference layer, and production deployment.
Once the first-generation product is in production, help shape the cross-portfolio semantic layer that connects Trustbridge, Calisade, and future ventures.
You are a generalist by temperament. You are comfortable across model selection, agent orchestration (LLM-based and otherwise), basic data engineering, and inference architecture. You do not need to be the world expert in any one of these, but you need to be competent in all of them.
Competitive base salary calibrated to senior engineering roles at top-tier Indian technology companies and well-funded startups, plus meaningful equity in Vulcury Ventures LLC. Equity vests over four years with a one-year cliff. Specific numbers will be discussed with shortlisted candidates.
Send a short note (please, no long cover letters) to [email] explaining: (1) the most interesting production ML or AI system you have shipped and what you would do differently if you built it again, (2) what you are looking for in the next chapter of your career, and (3) one technical opinion you hold that you think most people get wrong. Attach a CV or a link to your work.
We will respond to every credible application. The interview process is four conversations: an initial call with the founder, a technical conversation with our Fractional CTO, a working session on a real problem from our roadmap, and a closing conversation on fit and compensation. We aim to move from first call to offer in three weeks for candidates we are excited about.
