Porch Group is a leading vertical software and insurance platform and is positioned to be the best partner to help homebuyers move, maintain, and fully protect their homes. We offer differentiated products and services, with homeowners insurance at the center of this relationship. We differentiate and look to win in the massive and growing homeowners insurance opportunity by
1) providing the best services for homebuyers
2) led by advantaged underwriting in insurance
3) to protect the whole home
As a leader in the home services software-as-a-service (“SaaS”) space, we’ve built deep relationships with approximately 30 thousand companies that are key to the home-buying transaction, such as home inspectors, mortgage companies, and title companies.
In 2020, Porch Group rang the Nasdaq bell and began trading under the ticker symbol PRCH. We are looking to build a truly great company and are JUST GETTING STARTED.
Job Title: Senior AI Engineer I
Location: India
Workplace Type: Remote
Job Summary
The future is bright for the Porch Group, and we’d love for you to be a part of it as our Senior AI Engineer I
As a Senior AI Engineer II, you will be partnering with product managers, software engineers, and data labelers to derive value from our ever increasing data set of home and consumer data sources, particularly by extracting property attributes from text and image data.
Your team has autonomy to evolve the projects and platform with modern ideas and practices and will continue to streamline model building and deployment allowing rapid turnaround from concept to deployment. The current Machine Learning stack is based on Python, using Feast, Flyte, and BentoML among other tools to allow the team to focus more energy on solving business problems.
What You’ll Do As A Senior Software Engineer I
- Own the full machine learning lifecycle from research to production, leveraging Computer Vision and NLP techniques (e.g. BERT, ViT) to extract insights from unstructured data
- Evaluate and integrate modern AI and foundation model capabilities (e.g., vision-language models, embeddings, or retrieval-augmented approaches) into production systems where appropriate.
- Partner with product, operations, and engineering to translate business problems into high-impact machine learning or AI opportunities
- Advocate for sustainable tradeoffs, architecting solutions that balance product needs and long term goals
- Design experiments to quantify the business impact of machine learning models
- Collaborate with other MLEs on tooling improvements for model training and deployment
- Utilize our MLOps stack to drive feature engineering, model training, and data analysis
- Write robust, production-grade Python code to productionalize feature engineering, model training, and deployment
- Participate in the on-call rotation to assist engineers in troubleshooting
What You Will Bring As A Senior Software Engineer I
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field (or four years of equivalent work experience)
- Experience: 5+ years of experience in machine learning and applied statistics, with a strong command of fundamental concepts
- A curious and driven individual who likes to work in a trustful, respectful, and collaborative environment
- Proven track record of leading high-impact ML initiatives from concept to production, demonstrating the architectural foresight to deliver immediate business value while championing the technical sustainability of the end-to-end ML lifecycle
- Experience deploying, monitoring, and A/B testing models in production
- Ability to communicate effectively in both business and highly technical contexts
- Demonstrated ability to write clean, modular, and testable code, applying software engineering best practices
- Experience working with relational databases and cloud solutions (e.g. Postgres, Google BigQuery, Google Datastore, and Google Cloud Storage)
- Experience in python data stacks, e.g. Numpy, Scipy, Pandas, Scikit-Learn and Matplotlib
- Proven experience working with US based business teams.
- Excellent written and communication skills in English language.
- Must currently reside in or are located within 150 km of Greater Delhi NCR, Greater Bangalore, or Greater Pune
- Ability to work within core US business hours / time zone expectations - Eastern Standard Time (PST) overlap
- Workspace: A quiet space to work, an internet connection of at least 30 Mbps download | 10 Mbps upload
The application window for this position is anticipated to close in 2 weeks (10 business days) from December 30, 2025. Please know this may change based on business and interviewing needs.
What You Will Get As A Porch Group Team Member
Pay Range*: INR 2,137,500 - 2,992,500 INR annually
*Please know your actual pay at Porch will reflect a number of factors among which are your work experience and skillsets, job-related knowledge, alignment with market and our Porch employees, as well as your geographic location.
Our benefits package will provide you with comprehensive coverage for your health, life, and financial well-being.
- Our benefits include medical insurance, accident insurance and retiral benefits.
- Our wellness programs include 12 company-paid holidays, 2 flexible holidays, privilege/earned leave, casual/sick leave, paid maternity and paternity Leaves, and weekly wellness events.
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What’s next?
Submit your application below and our Talent Acquisition team will be reviewing your application shortly! If your resume gets us intrigued, we will look to connect with you for a chat to learn more about your background, and then possibly invite you to have virtual interviews. What's important to call out is that we want to make sure not only that you're the right person for us, but also that we're the right next step for you, so come prepared with all the questions you have!
Porch is committed to building an inclusive culture of belonging that not only embraces the diversity of our people but also reflects the diversity of the communities in which we work and the customers we serve. We know that the happiest and highest performing teams include people with diverse perspectives that encourage new ways of solving problems, so we strive to attract and develop talent from all backgrounds and create workplaces where everyone feels seen, heard and empowered to bring their full, authentic selves to work.
Porch is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex including sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.
