NLP Engineer

Summary

Join Trunk Tools, a leading AI company revolutionizing the construction industry, and help build the future of construction through intelligent automation. We are seeking a skilled NLP engineer to enhance our search capabilities, process diverse documents, design and implement entity extraction and text classification systems, and develop language models tailored to the construction industry. You will work on advanced NLP techniques, information retrieval, and LLM-based applications. The ideal candidate possesses an MS/PhD in a related field, 2+ years of NLP experience, proficiency in Python and relevant NLP libraries, and strong experience with information retrieval technologies. We offer a competitive salary, stock options, comprehensive benefits, flexible work options, and a collaborative startup environment.

Requirements

• MS/PhD in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Information Retrieval or a related field
• 2+ years of experience in NLP, with a focus on building production-ready systems
• Proficiency in Python, ML and experience with NLP libraries such as NLTK, spaCy, or Hugging Face Transformers
• Strong experience with information retrieval and search technologies, such as elasticsearch, graph databases, or vector embeddings
• Familiarity with LLM-based applications and RAG systems in real-world scenarios
• Interest in the construction industry

Responsibilities

• Enhance our search capabilities through advanced NLP techniques
• Process and analyze a diverse set of documents including text, tables and images
• Design and implement entity extraction and text classification systems
• Identify and model relationships between entities within and across different document types
• Design and implement an efficient indexing structure to enable accurate and fast search capabilities
• Design and conduct experiments to evaluate and improve NLP model performance
• Develop and maintain language models tailored to the construction industry domain

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with training or fine-tuning proprietary algorithms
• Experience with developing complex agentic LLM applications

Benefits

• A close-knit and collaborative early-stage startup environment where every voice is heard and every opinion matters
• Competitive salary and stock option equity packages
• 3 Medical Plans to choose from including 100% covered option. Plus Dental and Vision Insurance!
• Learning & Growth stipend
• Flexible long-term work options (remote and hybrid)
• Free lunch provided in the office in NYC and Austin - you’ll never go hungry with us!
• Unlimited PTO; We truly believe in work-life balance and that hard work should be balanced with time for rest and rejuvenation
• IRL / In-Person retreats throughout the year