Senior ML Engineer - AI Document Intelligence (Remote, $15K Contract)
Role Overview
This senior ML engineer role involves building an AI system to parse death certificates with 95% accuracy across 50+ state formats and generate institution-specific legal documents for automated death administration. The engineer will work on a 4-week paid sprint developing death certificate intelligence using vision models, creating legal document templates, and building an integration demo. As a potential founding CTO, this role offers significant technical leadership in shaping the company's AI solution from the ground up.
Perks & Benefits
This is a fully remote position with worldwide location flexibility and a $15,000 contract for a 4-week sprint. The role offers potential for career growth as employee #1 with possible transition to Founding CTO including 3-5% equity, $180,000-220,000 salary, and significant influence over technical decisions. The company culture appears mission-driven with personal connection to solving real-world problems affecting millions of families annually.
Full Job Description
Headquarters: Miami, FL URL: https://www.shado.ventures/
The Challenge Build an AI system achieving 95% accuracy parsing death certificates across 50+ state format variations, generating institution-specific legal documents for automated death administration.
The Mission Shado Ventures automates the 500 hours of administrative work families face after someone dies notifying government agencies, financial institutions, and service providers without the deceased's login credentials.
3.3 million American families face this crisis annually. We're building the first AI solution.
Personal Context I'm Hassan, founder. My father is in hospice right now. I'm living the exact problem we're solving.
The Opportunity 4-Week Paid Sprint: $15,000 " $7,500 upfront (contract signing) " $7,500 at delivery
If mutual fit Founding CTO: " Equity: 3-5% (4-year vest, 1-year cliff) " Salary: $180,000-220,000 " Employee #1, shape everything " $3.5M seed closing April 2026
What You'll Build Week 1 - Death Certificate Intelligence: " GPT-4 Vision or Claude Sonnet with vision " 95% extraction accuracy across 50+ state formats " Structured JSON output (name, DOB, death date, SSN, address)
Week 2 - Legal Document Generation: " 15+ institution-specific templates " SSA, Medicare, DMV, IRS, banks, credit cards, insurance, utilities " Jinja2 + python-docx + PDF generation " Professional output (not obviously AI-generated)
Week 3/4 - Integration + Demo: " Streamlit or React UI " Upload Review Generate Download workflow " Investor-ready demo video
Requirements Must have: 5+ years shipping production ML/AI GPT-4 or Claude API expertise (production, not experimental) Public GitHub with LLM projects (we review your code) Available within 2-4 weeks 30-40 hrs/week for 3 weeks
Nice to have: + OCR/document parsing experience + Legal/regulated industry background + Vision model expertise
Tech Stack Python 3.10+, GPT-4 Vision/Claude, Jinja2, python-docx, Pydantic, Streamlit/React
Why This Is Technically Interesting " Novel problem (no existing AI solution for death certificates) " Challenging accuracy target (95% across 50 state variations) " Green field architecture (make all technical decisions) " Real-world impact (3.3M families annually)
How to Apply Contact: Noa James Email: noa@shado.ventures
Include ALL FOUR: 1. GitHub profile link (required, we review your code) 2. One GPT-4/Claude production project (problem, results, repo link) 3. Availability (start date + hours/week) 4. Technical approach (3-5 sentences on death cert parsing + legal doc generation)
Incomplete applications will not receive a response.
Timeline: Interviews late Feb, Start mid-March, Deliver early April
This is personal. This matters. Let's build it.
To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/shado-ventures-senior-ml-engineer-ai-document-intelligence-remote-15k-contract
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