DevOps Engineer

AI Research Scientist -Computer Vision

MeltPlan | Planning Engine for the Built Environment

MeltPlan is building the “planning engine” for the $14 Tn construction industry, an AI system designed specifically to optimize decisions before construction begins. While design software optimizes use and aesthetics and construction software optimizes execution and control, MeltPlan is building the missing layer - software that optimizes decisions and tradeoffs upstream, before scope is locked, procurement begins, and change orders become inevitable. MeltPlan’s long-term goal is to help teams make construction “boring” by making planning more intense: surfacing constraints and tradeoffs early, aligning stakeholders before plans are frozen, and reducing the need for late-stage redlines, rework, and change orders.

MeltPlan is founded by operators who have built at scale. Kanav previously co-founded Innovaccer, a $3Bn healthtech company focused on making US healthcare more affordable and accessible. He’s now applying that systems-level thinking to construction.He’s joined by Tanmaya Kala, former Project Executive at DPR Construction, who led large commercial, healthcare, and life sciences projects. We combine deep tech scale with real construction execution.

What This Role Really Is

We are looking for an AI Research Scientist – Computer Vision to enhance and manage the PlanGraph model, which transforms 2D drawings into structured graphical representations of building elements. The role involves solving downstream business use cases such as quantity takeoff, code compliance, value engineering, and constructability analysis.We are specifically looking for hands-on researchers with experience in solving real-world Computer Vision problems and building custom vision models, VLMs, or VLLMs for production-grade applications.

What You’ll Do

• Build and optimize custom Computer Vision models, VLMs, and VLLMs for construction intelligence workflows.
• Solve downstream business use cases including quantity takeoff, code compliance, value engineering, and constructability analysis.
• Conduct applied research in Computer Vision, multimodal AI, document understanding, and spatial reasoning.
• Design, train, fine-tune, and evaluate production-grade AI models using large-scale datasets.
• Improve model accuracy, robustness, inference performance, and scalability for real-world deployment.
• Collaborate closely with engineering and product teams to convert research into deployable AI systems.
• Develop benchmarking, evaluation, and validation frameworks for model performance measurement.
• Stay updated with state-of-the-art research in Computer Vision, Vision Transformers, multimodal AI, and Generative AI.
• Contribute to research documentation, patents, publications, and internal technical knowledge sharing.
• Work on real-world construction datasets, drawings, and complex edge-case problem solving.
• Drive innovation in AI systems that improve planning, decision-making, and operational efficiency in construction workflows.

What We’re Looking For

• Strong foundation in Computer Vision, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning.
• Hands-on experience building and training custom Computer Vision models.
• Proficiency in Python and frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, and OpenCV.
• Experience working with image processing, object detection, segmentation, OCR, or multimodal AI systems.
• Understanding of Vision Language Models (VLMs), Vision Transformers (ViTs), or Generative AI concepts.
• Ability to train, fine-tune, and optimize AI models for production environments.
• Strong analytical, research, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience reading and implementing research papers into practical applications.
• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, AI, Machine Learning, or a related field.

Bonus if you’ve:

• Built multi-step agent systems
• Prior experience in applied AI research within startup or product-focused environments.
• Exposure to MLOps, model deployment, and production AI systems.
• Worked in messy real-world data environments

We’re not looking for someone who waits for clean requirements.We’re looking for someone who thrives in the mess and turns it into systems.

Why meltplan

• Massive industry, real-world impact
• High ownership from day one
• Small team, zero bureaucracy
• Competitive comp + meaningful equity

1. Bridging the gap between IT and the business using data analytics to assess processes, determine requirements and deliver data-driven recommendations and reports to executives and stakeholders.

2. Ability to search, extract, transform and load data from various databases, cleanse and refine data until it is fit-for-purpose

3. Work within various time constraints to meet critical business needs, while measuring and identifying activities performed and ensuring service requirements are met

4. Prioritization of issues to meet deadlines while ensuring high-quality delivery

5. Ability to pull data and to perform ad hoc reporting and analysis as needed

6. Ability to adapt quickly to new and changing technical environments as well as strong analytical and problem-solving abilities

7. Strong interpersonal and presentation skills

SKILLS:

1. Advanced skills in designing reporting interfaces and interactive dashboards in Google Sheets and Excel

2. Experience working with senior decision-makers

3. Strong advanced SQL/MySQL and Python skills with the ability to fetch data from the Data Warehouse as per the stakeholder's requirement

4. Good Knowledge and experience in Excel VBA and advanced excel

5. Good Experience in building Tableau analytical Dashboards as per the stake holder's reporting requirements

6. Strong communication/interpersonal skills

PERSONA:

1. Experience in working on adhoc requirements

2. Ability to toggle around with shifting priorities

3. Experience in working for Fintech or E-commerce industry is preferable

4. Engineering 2+ years of experience as a Business Analyst for the finance processes

As a PHP Backend Developer, your primary responsibility will be to develop and maintain the server-side logic of web applications, ensuring high performance, responsiveness, and scalability. You will work closely with the front-end development team, project managers, and other stakeholders to deliver robust and efficient web solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain server-side applications using PHP frameworks (such as Yii, Laravel, Symfony, and CodeIgniter) and other related technologies.
• Write clean, well-structured, and reusable code following industry best practices and coding standards.
• Collaborate with front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
• Design and implement secure and efficient APIs for data exchange with the front end and external services.
• Optimize application performance by identifying and resolving bottlenecks, improving code efficiency, and implementing caching mechanisms.
• Ensure data integrity and implement proper validation and error-handling techniques.
• Collaborate with database administrators to design and optimize database schemas and queries.
• Conduct thorough testing and debugging of applications to ensure high-quality deliverables.
• Stay updated with the latest trends and advancements in PHP development and related technologies.
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to maintain code quality and improve team collaboration.
• Collaborate with the project management team to estimate project timelines and deliver work within specified deadlines.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues, provide technical support and perform maintenance tasks as required.

Requirements:

• Proven work experience as a PHP Backend Developer or similar role.
• Strong proficiency in PHP and its frameworks (Yii, Laravel, Symfony, etc.) with a good understanding of object-oriented programming principles.
• Experience with frontend technologies (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript) and their integration with backend systems.
• Familiarity with database systems, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB, and proficiency in writing efficient database queries.
• Knowledge of version control systems like Git for code collaboration and deployment.
• Familiarity with RESTful API development and integration of third-party APIs.
• Experience in optimizing application performance and implementing caching techniques.
• Understanding of security principles and best practices for web application development.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills with strong attention to detail.
• Good communication and teamwork skills to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Ability to work independently and handle multiple projects simultaneously.

ENGINEERING MANAGER @REBEL FOODS

We are surrounded by the world's leading consumer companies led by technology - Amazon for retail, Airbnb for hospitality, Uber for mobility, Netflix and Spotify for entertainment, etc. Food & Beverage is the only consumer sector where large players are still traditional restaurant companies. At Rebel Foods, we are challenging this status quo as we are building the world's most valuable restaurant company on the internet, superfast.

The opportunity for us is immense due to the exponential growth in the food delivery business worldwide which has helped us build 'The World's Largest Internet Restaurant Company' in the last few years. Rebel Foods current presence in 7 countries (India, Indonesia, UAE, UK, Malaysia, Singapore, Bangladesh) with 15 + brands and 3500+ internet restaurants has been build on a simple system - The Rebel Operating Model.

While for us it is still Day 1, we know we are in the middle of a revolution towards creating never seen before customer-first experiences. We bring you a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to disrupt the 500-year-old industry with technology at its core.

We urge you to refer to the below to understand how we are changing the restaurant industry before applying at Rebel Foods.

https://jaydeep-barman.medium.com/why-is-rebel-foods-hiring-super-talented-engineers-%20b88586223ebe" target="_blank">link 1

https://jaydeep-barman.medium.com/how-to-build-1000-restaurants-in-24-months-the-rebel-method-%20cb5b0cea4dc8" target="_blank">link 2

https://medium.com/faasos-story/winning-the-last-frontier-for-consumer-internet-5f2a659c43db" target="_blank">link 3

https://medium.com/faasos-story/winning-the-last-frontier-for-consumer-internet-5f2a659c43db" target="_blank">link 4

In order to understand more about the challenges that you might face at Rebel, it’s important that we go back to the inception and get acquainted about our journey to date. From the times when excel sheets served as our POS system at stores having one brand, to our evolution as a company that uses smart kitchens - we have traversed the phone, web, and app channels over time. From being a single brand restaurant, we moved to be a parent company with a dozen restaurant brands under the umbrella, while simultaneously moving our operations from a single kitchen to more than 300 locations across 30 cities in India and in a few international locations. The team of engineers at Rebel has built one of the most unique platforms in the world that can not only help operate a kitchen with multiple brands but also aids in operating business at scale. To give you additional perspective, the team has built more than 40+ products in the last 4.5 years. The innovation spans through technologies like polygon architecture (dynamic delivery radius) for a multi-brand operation from a kitchen, to managing each step of the kitchen ops — queuing, load/prep time, batching of orders, out of the door algorithms; inventory prediction based on consumption data, personal

recommendation engine, deep integration with every aggregator, last-mile delivery app, CRM systems, multiple brand websites and apps, reporting and analytics systems, and more. Everything that was mentioned has been built on a tech stack developed by our Engineers. This enabled us to tackle the massive complexity of a multi-brand operation while keeping all parts of the business supremely efficient and optimized.

We are now building Engineering 2.0 at our company. The vision is to make technology the Brain (AI, Machine Learning, analytics to drive every business decision of the company), the Body (robotics led automation at our Kitchens, driving tremendous operational efficiency), and the Mind ( building an AI/ ML-driven virtual personal butler for customers across app, web, and voice, like Netflix of food) at Rebel. This will mean working across technologies and product/engineering teams to build solutions that would be “first - time” in the world. Engineering @ Rebel will break new grounds.

An opportunity to revolutionize the restaurant industry

Here, at Rebel Foods, we are using technology and automation to disrupt the traditional food industry. We are focused on building an operating system for Cloud Kitchens - using the most innovative technologies - to provide the best food experiences for our customers.

You will enjoy working with us, if:

• You are passionate about solving customer problems using people, processes and technology
• You are an engineer at heart, obsessed with high quality software
• You have a flair for good technical and organizational design
• You are unafraid of making bold decisions to eliminate inefficiencies and improving the velocity of software development
• You are an owner and take responsibility for outputs and outcomes
• You are willing to dive deep to solve complex software issues
• You are a teacher and mentor

Our technology ecosystem:

• Languages: Java, Typescript, Javascript, Ruby
• Frameworks and environments: Spring Boot, NodeJS, ExpressJS
• Databases: AWS Aurora MySQL, MongoDB
• Cloud: AWS
• Microservices, Service Oriented Architecture, REST APIs, Caching, Messaging, Logging, Monitoring and Alerting
• CI/CD and DevOps
• Bitbucket, Jira

You will mostly spend time on the following:

• Leading a team of software engineers; owning and developing the roadmap to support your long term vision for the services and conducting tactical execution at the same time
• Hiring, mentoring and coaching your direct reports to be the best they can be, both in their current roles and in their careers
• Liaising with product, business and leadership teams to ensure business priorities are met
• Continuously improving management and engineering processes. Planning, estimating projects and tasks and ensuring software development best practices are being followed
• Working closely with engineers on day to day activities, including writing, reviewing and troubleshooting code
• Owning services, and managing ongoing features, fixes, and daily operations of services
• Teaching and mentoring team members

We’re excited about you if you have:

• At least 15 years of experience in software development, including experience building microservices and distributed systems
• Built and led high performing engineering teams
• Experience working with complex, high traffic, and consumer facing distributed platforms
• Proven engineering knowledge and experience
• The ability to operate at a managerial level as well as diving deep and getting your hands dirty when required
• Experience in establishing software development processes and practices; A track record of good project planning and execution
• Good communication skills, both in person and via the keyboard
• Made decisions that impacted technical design, development and planning for one or more projects / programs that impacted multiple teams or functions.
• Good programming skills in one or more languages: Java, Typescript, Javascript, C#, C++, Python or Ruby
• Experience working in Cloud environments: AWS or Azure or GCP
• Experience building secure, configurable, observable services
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• The ability to mentor and teach junior and senior engineers
• The ability to collaborate effectively within and across engineering, product and business teams

What you will do:

• Web-based portal development for end to end process management
• Work with the real-time feedback from users to make the product better
• Discover, design, develop, deploy, debug. Repeat! In highly agile environment.

What will we be building together?

1K Kirana Bazaar (1K) is building Bharat's first hyperlocal offline-online distribution platform. Our aim is to provide the benefits of technology and scale to the underserved first time internet users of Bharat. We use the efficiencies of the existing kirana store network and empower them with a full technology stack to fulfill all needs of our consumers.

Over the next 2 years our goal is to transform the lives of millions of new age consumers of Bharat and at the same time make the lives of thousands of retailers more fulfilling! With our end to end integrated supply chain and technology stack, we are already disrupting the traditional supply chain and bringing in innovation and gamification to the traditional shopping and consumption process. The growth process will demand exploration of technologies like Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, IPFS, Distributed Computing, and IOT to name a few to fuel the idealistic model design for the making of an evolved #bharat. We visualise seamless access to every consumer or a mom & pop store in the deepest rooted corners of India.

What will you be driving with the team?

To build full-stack solutions for retail & supply chain from managing purchases to selling products to end consumers. You will work on solving some of the complex problems of the retail industry.

Your core responsibilities:

• Solve complex problems and follow good coding practices and complying with existing quality standards.
• Evaluate existing engineering processes and recommend improvements.
• Setup high-quality standards in production running code by performing diligent code reviews and rigorous unit test coverage.
• Brainstorm (sometimes, even prototype) features with the rest of the team based on your knowledge of the codebase.
• And of course, there's always bugs to fix, based on your personal experience or feedback from the team and the 1K community.

What will help you thrive in this role? 

• A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field is preferred.
• 6 month+ experience in software development.
• Knowledge of programming languages.
• Should possess a solid grasp of object-oriented programming, data structures, and software design.
• Experience with AWS infrastructure and distributed systems is a plus.
• Highly developed attention to detail.
• Ability to work well in a fast-paced environment.

Whom you will be sharing your workday with?

We are a language-agnostic engineering team of independent thinkers who understand the priorities of a rapidly growing startup and excel at choosing high impact projects. Our core beliefs are: 

• We are at the forefront of disrupting the traditional retail & supply chain industry by building distributed systems
• We are hardcore open source lovers and believe in the strength of the open-source community.
• We believe technology can change the way information is consumed.
• We use a data-driven approach to build new products and features.
• Build new tech solutions to improve business processes and enable our various departments to help service our teams better.
• We embrace and enable DevOps culture within the organisation.

And yes! We do have new furry friends coming to our office every day.

Work Perks

• Hybrid work environment with flexibility to work from anywhere. 
• A great salary, commensurate with experience.
• Unlimited vacation policy which means Paid Vacations.
• A relaxed & flexible working atmosphere.
• Weekly parties (Unofficial).
• Paid outings to remote work locations and industry events/conferences.
• Paid Health Insurance for you and your loved ones.