Senior AI/ML Engineer — Founding Technical Lead (US)

This is a remote position.

Senior AI/ML Engineer — Founding Technical Lead  (US)

Location: US

Type:  Part time

Reports to: Founder, with technical oversight from Fractional CTO  

Manages: 2–4 junior engineers / interns  

About Vulcury

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.  

The Opportunity

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.  

What You Will Do

• Own the technical build of the first-generation Trustbridge supplier app end-to-end: architecture, model selection, agent design, inference layer, and production deployment.  

• Lead and mentor a team of 2–4 junior engineers and interns based in India. Set the technical bar, run code reviews, and grow the team's capability.  

• Translate business and product specifications into buildable technical plans. You will work directly with the founder, who owns domain logic but is not a builder.  

• Collaborate with our Fractional CTO (background in major financial technology) on architecture decisions and technical strategy.  

• Once the first-generation product is in production, help shape the cross-portfolio semantic layer that connects Trustbridge, Calisade, and future ventures.  

• Be redeployed, over time, to new internal products and external client engagements as the practice grows.