# Founding AI Engineer

- Company: [Bild Ai](<https://jobstar.asia/company/bild-ai>)
- Location: San Francisco
- Team: Engineering
- Employment type: Full Time
- Salary: $120K – $180K
- Posted: May 18, 2026

## 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

## Apply

[Apply on Bild Ai](<https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/bild-ai/45434dce-1d56-4433-bade-38568e1fa979>)

Canonical job page: <https://jobstar.asia/job/founding-ai-engineer-bild-ai-san-francisco-f3d0c625315f0016>
