Instrumentl · 3 hours ago
AI Data Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$175K/yr - $220K/yr
5+ years expInstrumentl is a mission-driven startup focused on helping the nonprofit sector with grant discovery and management through their SaaS platform. As an AI Data Engineer, you will own the systems that transform unstructured content into structured data, build automated content discovery pipelines, and ensure data quality for product teams.
Non ProfitSaaSSoftware
Responsibilities
Build content discovery pipelines: Automate discovery and acquisition of grant-related content from the web—foundation websites, RFPs, program announcements—turning the open web into structured, actionable data
Build LLM extraction pipelines: Implement production pipelines to transform unstructured text into canonical business objects—including document ingestion (PDFs, HTML, Word), OCR, table extraction, and layout-aware parsing. Partner with product engineers to evolve schemas as domain needs change
Own semantic chunking and embeddings: Design chunking strategies optimized for retrieval; select and manage embedding models; maintain vector indices that power downstream search and RAG features
Optimize for cost and latency: Profile token usage, implement caching and batching strategies, choose appropriate models for different tasks, and manage the cost/quality tradeoff at scale
Maintain data quality and serve downstream consumers: Implement validation, anomaly detection, and alerting for extraction drift. Expose clean data via APIs, materialized views, or event streams that product teams can rely on without understanding the extraction complexity. Integrate and normalize data from external providers—resolving entities, mapping to internal schemas, and ensuring "Ford Foundation" and "The Ford Foundation" resolve to the same canonical record
Qualification
Required
5+ years of professional software engineering experience
2+ years working with modern LLMs (as an IC)
Proven production impact: You've taken LLM/RAG systems from prototype to production, owned reliability/observability, and iterated post‑launch based on evals and user feedback
Experience building tool/function‑calling workflows, planning/execution loops, and safe tool integrations (e.g., with LangChain/LangGraph, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel, or custom orchestration)
Strong grasp of document ingestion, chunking/windowing, embeddings, hybrid search (keyword + vector), re‑ranking, and grounded citations
Hands‑on with embedding model selection/versioning and vector DBs (e.g., pgvector, FAISS, Pinecone, Weaviate, Milvus, Qdrant)
Comfort designing eval suites (RAG/QA, extraction, summarization), using automated and human‑in‑the‑loop methods; familiarity with frameworks like Ragas/DeepEval/OpenAI Evals or equivalent
Proficiency in Python (FastAPI, Celery) and TypeScript/Node; familiarity with Ruby on Rails (our core platform) or willingness to learn
Experience with AWS/GCP, Docker, CI/CD, and observability (logs/metrics/traces)
Comfortable with SQL, schema design, and building/maintaining data pipelines that power retrieval and evaluation
You thrive in a cross‑functional environment and can translate researchy ideas into shippable, user‑friendly features
Bias for action and ownership with an eye for speed, quality, and simplicity
Preferred
Practical experience with SFT/LoRA or instruction‑tuning (and good intuition for when fine‑tuning vs. prompting vs. model choice is the right lever)
Exposure to open‑source LLMs (e.g., Llama) and providers (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral)
Familiarity with responsible AI, red‑teaming, and domain‑specific safety policies
Benefits
100% covered health, dental, and vision insurance for employees (50% for dependents)
Generous PTO, including parental leave
401(k)
Company laptop and home-office stipend
Bi-Annual Company Retreats for in-person collaboration
Company
Instrumentl
Instrumentl is an end-to-end platform for grant management that supports organizations throughout the entire grant lifecycle.
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$55MKey Investors
Summit Partners
2025-04-23Private Equity· $55M
2020-01-01Series Unknown
2017-08-01Seed
Leadership Team
Gauri Manglik
CEO & Co-founder
Angela Braren
Co-founder leading Engineering, Product & Design
Recent News
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2026-01-12
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