Founding AI Engineer

# **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