Founding Technical Lead

Job Title: Founding Technical Lead (Applied AI & Full-Stack) Company: HS Grid One Private Limited (Building TrustGrid QC) Location: Pune / PCMC, Maharashtra (On-site / Hybrid) Employment Type: Full-Time Compensation: Competitive base salary + Early-stage equity vesting (ESOPs)About the Role: HS Grid One is building the digital intelligence layer for industrial supply chains.

Our flagship product, TrustGrid QC, replaces slow, corruptible manual quality testing at factory weighbridges with an instant, multimodal AI gatekeeper.We are looking for a Founding Technical Lead to take our core prototype and architect it into a scalable enterprise platform. You will not be training foundation models from scratch or soldering edge hardware. Instead, you will act as a high-velocity product builder: orchestrating multimodal LLM APIs (Google Gemini, OpenAI), building a resilient Python/Node backend, and designing the immutable database ledger that tracks our ground-truth data.

Key Responsibilities

API Orchestration: Architect the secure backend (FastAPI or Node.js) to handle image uploads, manage dynamic few-shot system prompts, and parse structured JSON responses from the Gemini Vision API.Database & Data Flywheel: Design the PostgreSQL (or Supabase) schema to immutably log weighbridge scans, supplier data, and delayed physical lab results for continuous algorithmic calibration.Web & Mobile Execution: Build and maintain a clean, responsive inspector interface and enterprise admin dashboard using React or Next.js.Network Resilience: Implement offline caching, image compression, and asynchronous task queues to ensure the app remains blazing fast at rural/semi-urban factory gates with 2G/3G/4G/5G connectivity.What We Are Looking For:3 to 6 years of full-stack engineering experience (Python/FastAPI, Node.js, React/Next.js).Direct experience integrating and orchestrating GenAI / multimodal vision APIs into production applications.Strong foundation in relational databases (PostgreSQL) and cloud deployment (Vercel, AWS, or GCP).High agency: You thrive in early-stage chaos, prefer shipping over endless planning, and understand that code is just a tool to solve business problems.