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Founding AI Engineer

Full-time

Bild Ai

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 .

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 . 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 )

  • (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

Vacancy posted 1 day ago
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