Founding AI Engineer

This is a founding engineering role at an early-stage construction technology startup building an AI intelligence layer that transforms messy blueprints, permits, and construction documents into actionable insights. You will own the modeling, data pipelines, and inference systems that power automated material takeoffs and cost estimation, directly accelerating the development of housing, hospitals, and schools.

Apply state-of-the-art computer vision, LLM, and multimodal AI techniques to real-world construction documents.

Rapidly prototype models and iterate based on user feedback and production data.

Build and deploy AI systems that operate reliably on noisy, heterogeneous inputs.

Own the intelligence layer end-to-end, including modeling, data pipelines, and inference.

Collaborate closely with product and users to identify and solve high-impact problems.

Handle practical engineering work including data labeling, ETL, and deployment tasks as part of a small team.

Communicate progress and tradeoffs clearly and empathetically across the team.

Hands-on experience applying computer vision, multimodal AI, and LLM techniques in production, including on messy real-world documents or similar unstructured data.