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Bild AI

Founding AI Engineer

$120,000 to $180,000 a year

  • San Francisco, California
  • On site
  • Full time
  • Engineering

Found by HiredNow AI on May 18, 2026. Subscribers saw it first.

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
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