Founding AI Engineer

Job description

# **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