Senior AI Engineer I

Porch Group is a leading vertical software and insurance platform and is positioned to be the best partner to help homebuyers move, maintain, and fully protect their homes. We offer differentiated products and services, with homeowners insurance at the center of this relationship. We differentiate and look to win in the massive and growing homeowners insurance opportunity by

1) providing the best services for homebuyers

2) led by advantaged underwriting in insurance

3) to protect the whole home

As a leader in the home services software-as-a-service (“SaaS”) space, we’ve built deep relationships with approximately 30 thousand companies that are key to the home-buying transaction, such as home inspectors, mortgage companies, and title companies.

In 2020, Porch Group rang the Nasdaq bell and began trading under the ticker symbol PRCH. We are looking to build a truly great company and are JUST GETTING STARTED.

Job Title: Senior AI Engineer I

Location: India

Workplace Type: Hybrid

Job Summary

The future is bright for the Porch Group, and we’d love for you to be a part of it as our Senior AI Engineer I.

We are building an AI layer that reads professional inspection reports — produced in a dozen incompatible formats by a dozen different vendor tools — and turns them into structured, actionable data for the people who have to act on them, without ever altering the inspector’s original wording. This is a founding AI engineering role: you will own the extraction pipeline end to end, from ingestion and parsing through model selection, evaluation, confidence thresholds, and the human review loop. You will work directly with a domain expert to define what “correct” means, and you will be the person accountable for knowing whether the system is getting better or worse. This is a production engineering role, not a research role — success is measured in recall on real documents, not in novel methods. If you want to build the foundational AI infrastructure for a category-defining product and see your work ship straight into production, this is that role.

What You Will Do As A Senior AI Engineer I

• Build and own the document ingestion and extraction pipeline: PDF and HTML input, text-layer and scanned documents, OCR fallback, layout-aware parsing

• Design the canonical output schema and the extraction logic that maps heterogeneous source formats onto it

• Implement span grounding — every extracted field carries the verbatim source text and a locator back to its origin. Preserving source text exactly is a hard product requirement, not a preference

• Build the evaluation harness: labeled golden set, per-field precision and recall, regression suite that runs on every prompt, model, or pipeline change

• Calibrate confidence scoring and set the thresholds that decide what auto-accepts versus what routes to human review

• Design and build the human-in-the-loop review workflow with the product and design partners

• Own unit economics: cost and latency per document, model tiering, caching, batching

• Instrument the system so silent failures surface, and monitor drift and regression in production

• Partner with a domain expert to define the taxonomy, adjudicate edge cases, and maintain labeling guidelines

What You Will Bring As A Senior AI Engineer I

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (Master’s preferred)

• 5+ years of hands-on with Software Engineer and ML/AI systems

• Strong experience building and owning production ML/AI systems, ideally involving LLMs, NLP, or document/information extraction pipelines

• Hands-on experience with OCR, layout-aware parsing, and processing heterogeneous document formats (PDF, HTML, scanned images)

• Experience designing evaluation harnesses and working with precision/recall or similar quality metrics for ML systems

• Experience building or partnering closely on human-in-the-loop review workflows

• Strong software engineering fundamentals, with the ability to own a system end to end in a production environment

• Proven experience working with US based business teams

• Excellent written and communication skills in English language

• Must currently reside in or are located within 150 km of Greater Delhi NCR, Greater Bangalore, or Greater Pune

• Working Hours: 8 Hours (Excluding breaks): 4 Core US Hours Overlap (7:30pm- 11:30pm IST) & 4 flexible hours (IST)
• Workspace: A quiet space to work, an internet connec…