Founding AI Engineer

Role Summary

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

MESSAGE WITH

• Why we’re a fit
• Your favorite fruit (mine is Sitaphal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Custard_apple)
• (Please keep it short)

Requirements

BONUS POINTS (IF ANY)

• Have built something people used/paid for (founder/startup)
• Have a construction background
• Are impact-driven

Additional Information

1. 15 min intro
2. 1 hour whiteboard technical
3. 1 hour coding technical
4. 3-5 day paid work trial

LOGISTICS

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