Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Hiring: Founding AI Engineer (Manufacturing Intelligence) — Stealth Build

If you can read a STEP file and tell a factory what to do—with code—you’re who I’m looking for.

What you need to know

• Build CAD ingestion + feature recognition for sheet metal parts (STEP/Parasolid/JT), including thickness, bends, cut paths, hole patterns, and weld seams.
• Design a rules/ML engine that converts geometry into manufacturable process plans (laser/press-brake/weld/stamping) with cycle-time and throughput estimates.
• Ingest and model time-series data on materials, labor, energy, logistics, and shop productivity to drive region-aware recommendations.
• Ship a production API and a lightweight web UI (upload → instant plan → clear explainability).
• Establish data quality, auditability, and versioning from day one.

You should have

• 4–8 years building production ML/AI systems (Python preferred) AND strong software engineering fundamentals (testing, CI/CD, profiling).
• Hands-on with geometric kernels/tooling (Open Cascade, CGAL, trimesh, mesh/solid ops) or equivalent real experience.
• Manufacturing/IE intuition: cycle-time modeling for laser, bending, welding, stamping; fixture/setup thinking; OEE basics.
• Data plumbing: APIs/ETL, Postgres/Timeseries, caching, and basic MLOps.
• Ability to turn ambiguity into shipped code without hand-holding.

Nice to have

• Experience inside a fab shop or on a production floor.
• Knowledge of PLM/ERP integrations, BOM/route structures.
• Go/TypeScript/Next.js for services and UI.

Stacks

Python (FastAPI), Postgres/Timescale, S3, Open Cascade/trimesh, Next.js. Cloud-agnostic.

Location

Pune preferred; remote (India) for the right person. Full-time.

How to apply

DM me on LinkedIn with:

1. Links or brief write-ups for

   two

   projects:

• Parsing/working with CAD/geometry, or
• Turning engineering rules into a planner/scheduler/estimator, or
• Building a production ML service with clear SLAs.

Details about CTC will be discussed on call or in person.