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- Closes Jan 21
- Posted May 20
- Last verified Oct 27
About the job
Bild AI (#) AI that understands construction blueprints Founding AI Engineer •San Francisco
Job type Full-time
Role Engineering, Full stack
Experience Any (new grads ok) Visa US citizen/visa only Connect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups. Apply to role › (https://account.ycombinator.com/authenticate?continue=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.workatastartup.com%2Fapplication%3Fsignup_job_id%3D95100&defaults%5BsignUpActive%5D=true&defaults%5Bwaas_company%5D=30177) Roop Pal Co-Founder Roop Pal Co-Founder
About the role 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 15 min intro 1 hour whiteboard technical 1 hour coding technical 3-5 day paid work trial Logistics SF-based or willing to relocate, fulltime in-office About Bild AI Bild AI is an early-stage startup with a ton of really difficult technical challenges to solve.
We're building blueprint understanding with a model-garden approach, so there is a lots of ground to break. We raised from the top VCs in the world before demo day and have a customer-obsessed approach to product development.