Senior Applied AI Engineer - Paradigm - Texas

Paradigm is a software company transforming the way that the residential construction & building product industries operate across the globe. We are looking for a Senior Applied AI Engineer to be part of revolutionizing these industries.

The Senior Applied AI Engineer will design, deploy, and optimize AI systems that power next-generation construction workflows. In this role, you’ll build the bridge between machine learning models and real-world applications—using LLMs, computer vision, retrieval systems, and agentic orchestration to automate key steps in the homebuilding process such as plan interpretation, takeoffs, estimating, and specification matching.

This role blends hands-on engineering, AI system design, and integration with enterprise platforms—turning AI capabilities into production-ready features that builders, designers, and estimators can rely on daily.

What You Will Do:
• Build and deploy advanced agentic AI systems that combine large language models, computer vision, and rules-based logic to automate construction workflows.
• Implement and optimize retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines to connect LLMs with real-time project data, specifications, and plan sets.
• Integrate AI models into production services and APIs for use in design, estimating, and procurement applications.
• Fine-tune and adapt pre-trained models for domain-specific tasks such as plan understanding, entity extraction, and bill-of-material generation.
• Evaluate and refine model accuracy, reasoning quality, and cost efficiency through Evals, zero/few-shot tests, Chain-of-Thought reasoning analysis, and LLM-as-a-judge evaluation techniques.
• Optimize inference performance and ensure system reliability in live environments.
• Work closely with data engineers to structure, index, and prepare complex multimodal datasets (text, CAD/BIM files, images) for AI consumption.
• Implement and refine robust data pipelines for training, validation, and feedback loops to continuously