Founding AI Engineer

About this role

FOUNDING AI ENGINEER

We founded Bild AI to tackle the mess that is blueprint reading, cost estimation, and permit applications in construction. It's a tough technical problem that requires the newest CV and AI approaches, and we’re impact-driven to make it more efficient to build more houses, hospitals, and schools. Featured on Business Insider https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-startup-bild-3-million-seed-affordable-housing-2025-6.

YOU’LL

- Focus on the intelligence-layer instead of the application-layer

- Apply SotA computer vision, LLM, and multimodal AI approaches to messy, real-world documents

- Ship initial prototypes quickly, and improve them based on user feedback

WE WANT

- Applied CV/ML experience

- 0-to-1 builder, with your AI in production

- Growth mindset, slope > y-intercept

- Communicate with empathy and honesty. Tell us what makes you happy/unhappy

- Don’t mind schlep https://www.paulgraham.com/schlep.html. We are regularly knee-deep in schlep

BONUS POINTS (IF ANY)

- Have built something people used/paid for (founder/startup)

- Have a construction background

- Are impact-driven

MESSAGE WITH

- Why we’re a fit

- Your favorite fruit (mine is Sitaphal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Custard_apple)

- (Please keep it short)

INTERVIEW PROCESS

1. 15 min intro

2. 1 hour whiteboard technical

3. 1 hour coding technical

4. 3-5 day paid work trial

LOGISTICS

- SF-based or willing to relocate, fulltime in-office

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