Lead AI Engineer

What Makes Us Stand Out:

With the combined strengths of SingleOps, Landscape Management Network (LMN), and Greenius, we lead the way in all-in-one business management solutions for the green industry. Every day, thousands of professionals in landscaping, tree care, design/build, snow removal, irrigation, and more rely on our tools to transform their business operations. From managing customer records and creating estimates to scheduling crews, processing payments, and gaining insights into real-time profitability—our software does it all. Together, our customers have processed over $4 billion in revenue, driving forward the green industry's digital evolution.

As a team, we're on a mission to reshape an age-old industry, and we're looking for people who thrive on challenging and meaningful work. Our environment is highly collaborative, innovative, and supportive, with a shared commitment to having fun while making an impact. We live by our core values: We Before Me, The Extra 1%, Bias to Act, Unconditional Transparency, Accountable to Outcomes, and Forgiveness. If this resonates with you, we'd love to meet you and explore how you can help us build the future of the green industry

Our culture and growth has been recognized with multiple awards, it's a great time to join

• Comparably 2024 #23/100 Best (small/ medium sized companies) Leadership Teams
• Comparably 2024 #63/75 (small/ medium sized companies) Happiest Employees
• 9 Atlanta Business Chronicle's 2024 Best Places to Work (Our second year in a row)
  
• 6 of Built In's 2024 Best Places to Work: Top 50 start-ups in Atlanta (Our second year in a row)
  
• Inc Magazine's 2023 Best Places to Work
• Inc. 5000: #131 of 2024 Southeast Regional America's Fastest Growing Companies. (Our third year in a row)
• Inc 5000 America's fastest-growing private companies (Our third year in a row)
• Certified Great Place to Work Canada 2024

The Team

You'll be joining our 30-person engineering organization, a collaborative group of passionate, product-minded builders and will report directly to the VP of Engineering. This team is responsible for evolving and adding powerful new capabilities to our mature, successful SaaS platform. They are the experts at building atop a solid foundation, and they are excited to rally around and support the new AI vision you will bring.

The Role

You will lead the charge in creating the next stage of our product's evolution. Your journey will be a creative one: from exploring cutting-edge techniques to shipping our first-ever intelligent features. You will define the AI roadmap, select the best tools for the job, and set the technical foundation for the future AI/ML team that will follow in the path you create.

The Challenges

• Charting the Course. You are the founder of our AI practice. The primary challenge—and opportunity—is to turn the blank slate of our AI strategy into a clear, strategic roadmap. You will be the one building this new dimension of our product from first principles.
• Building the First Engine. You will build our AI capability from scratch atop a solid foundation. This involves setting the standards, choosing the architecture, and establishing the patterns that will power our intelligent features for years to come.
• Pioneering Integration. The first of anything is always the hardest. You will navigate the unique challenges of integrating brand-new, intelligent systems with a mature platform, ensuring they are not just powerful, but also reliable, scalable, and seamless for our users.

Why This Role Matters

We're excited about this role because we know our customers still face tedious and time-consuming tasks every day. You will be the key person to help us reduce that drudgery and create unique, innovative experiences that enrich their lives. This is an opportunity to have a significant impact on our product, our company, and the lives of our customers.

Outcomes You Will Drive

• Design and deploy our first set of AI-powered features, moving from prototype to production.
• Develop a long-term vision and roadmap for AI within our product, focusing on areas like agentic workflows to automate complex customer tasks.
• Architect and implement robust LLM orchestration systems to create reliable and scalable features.
• Integrate AI/ML models into our existing platform, leveraging techniques like Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with our proprietary data.
• Establish best practices for the full AI/ML lifecycle, from model evaluation to deployment and monitoring.

What We're Looking For

We're looking for a seasoned, pragmatic, and product-minded engineer who thrives in a collaborative environment. You should be an excellent communicator who can articulate complex technical concepts to all audiences.

• 8+ years of overall software engineering experience, 6+ years of hands-on AI/ML experience
• Proven experience building and shipping AI/ML features in a production environment.
• Hands-on experience with Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT, Claude, or open-source alternatives.
• Familiarity with LLM orchestration frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, or similar tools.
• Experience with vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, Chroma) and embedding techniques.
• Strong programming skills, particularly in Python, and experience working within an established codebase.
• (Bonus) Experience with model fine-tuning and building complex, multi-step AI agents.

USA

Granum does not sponsor work authorization needs; candidates must have proper work authorization to work for any employer in the United States, without sponsorship from the company.

Reasons why you would love it here

• Join an incredible team culture that's all about collaboration, support, and having fun while making a real impact every day.
• We prioritize your well-being with comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans for you and your family.
• 401K Matching
• We also offer additional options for HSA (with employer contribution), FSA, Dependent Care FSA, short-term/long-term disability, life insurance, legal assistance, and much more
• We invest in your growth through conferences, courses, or any tools that help you advance.
• Enjoy a great work-life balance with unlimited Paid Time Off, paid company holidays, and a company-wide shutdown from Dec 24 - Jan 1 for a well-deserved holiday break.

Granum is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.

Granum participates in the federal eVerify program.

Canada

Granum does not sponsor work authorization needs; candidates must have proper work authorization to work for any employer in Canada, without sponsorship from the company.

Reasons why you would love it here

• Join an incredible team culture that's all about collaboration, support, and having fun while making a real impact every day.
• You want to be part of a fun, fast paced, collaborative team.
• An amazing culture with a team that supports one another, the opportunity to make a direct impact, and all the fun that's included
• Your well-being is important. We offer an employer funded HSA-based benefits plan with additional drug, dental, and mental health coverages, providing a flexible way to pay for healthcare costs.
• We are committed to supporting our employees' financial health through our RRSP matching program.
• Enjoy a great work-life balance with unlimited Paid Time Off, paid company holidays, and a company-wide shutdown from Dec 24 - Jan 1 for a well-deserved holiday break.

Granum reserves the right to change job descriptions as per the needs of the organization.

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