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title: 'AI/SWE Intern at Bild AI'
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# AI/SWE Intern at Bild AI

- **Company:** Bild AI
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $3k–$10k
- **Employment:** internship
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/bild-ai/b333f0f7-0ca6-4509-8697-9303396b5364

## Job description

Puneet and I (Roop) to tackle the chaos of blueprint reading, cost estimation, and permit applications in construction. It's a gnarly technical challenge requiring cutting-edge computer vision and AI—and we're impact-driven to make building homes, hospitals, and schools faster and cheaper. Featured on Business Insider https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-startup-bild-3-million-seed-affordable-housing-2025-6.

## WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Apply the latest computer vision, LLMs, and AI systems to solve real construction problems
- Ship prototypes fast and iterate based on user feedback from contractors and architects
- Build your intern project with sole ownership, from research to production

## WE WANT

- 0-to-1 builder, with your AI in production
- Growth mindset, slope > y-intercept
- Direct communication with empathy and honesty. Tell us what energizes and frustrates you
- Don’t mind schlep https://www.paulgraham.com/schlep.html. We are regularly knee-deep in the messy, unglamorous work

## BONUS POINTS (IF ANY)

- Applied CV/ML experience
- Have built something people used/paid for
- Construction, architecture, or real estate interest
- Genuinely motivated by making housing and building more affordable

## MESSAGE WITH

- Why you think we're a mutual fit
- Your favorite fruit (mine is Sitaphal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Custard_apple)
- (Please keep it short)

## LOGISTICS

- SF-based for the course of the internship, we’ll cover logistics

## About Bild AI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Bild AI automates construction blueprint takeoffs for Division 8 (doors, frames, and hardware) using computer vision and AI, helping estimators generate detailed material cost estimates in hours instead of days.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Roop Pal and Puneet Sukhija

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Construction technology (ConTech), AI-powered estimating for commercial construction.
- **Target customers**: B2B – primarily Division 8 distributors (door, frame, and hardware suppliers) and general contractors performing material takeoffs.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Making building affordable by leveraging AI to analyze blueprints" (from LinkedIn). The company aims to reduce the $50B/year spent on manual blueprint processing.

## Products & Services
- **Bild AI Platform**: A web-based software application that ingests construction blueprints (PDFs, plans) and automatically extracts door schedules, hardware sets, and openings. It cross-references plans, schedules, and specifications to catch inconsistencies, generates manufacturer cross-references and approved alternates, and exports the data directly into ERPs like Comsense, Avaware, and ProTech. The platform also includes addendum change tracking (diffing between drawing sets) and floor plan visualization.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company).
- **Key Metric (Total Funding)**: $3.6M across two rounds.
    - Pre-Seed (Feb 2025): $500K led by Y Combinator.
    - Seed (Aug 2025): $3.1M led by Khosla Ventures.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Khosla Ventures, Y Combinator (W25 batch). Primary partner: Gustaf Alstromer (YC Group Partner). Integration partners include Comsense, Avaware, and ProTech.
- **Growth Signals**: 
    - Monthly employee headcount growth of +14.3% (LinkedIn data).
    - Clients report a 50% increase in bid volume (Y Combinator) and 1.5× bid volume per estimator (company website).
    - Team grew from founding to 6–8 employees within the first year.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Extreme specialization**: Narrowly focused on Division 8 (doors, frames, hardware), a segment of construction estimating known for complex details and high error costs.
- **End-to-end automation**: Reads both blueprints and written specs, extracts structured opening schedules, and directly exports to the ERPs already used by target customers (no manual re-keying).
- **Founder-market fit**: Co-founders combine deep construction experience (Puneet Sukhija built hundreds of homes) with top-tier AI/ML expertise (Roop Pal, ex-Google/Waymo CV/ML).
- **Backed by top-tier investors**: Khosla Ventures and Y Combinator provide credibility and network effects.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Deepen Division 8 product capabilities (e.g., hardware set automation, alternate mapping), increase adoption among major distributors, and expand blueprint processing to other trades (flooring, lumber, etc.).
- **Direction for growth**: Scale the platform to handle additional construction categories and move beyond estimating into permitting and architectural consistency checks (as stated on Y Combinator profile).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Early-stage startup (YC W25) with a "customer-obsessed" product development approach. Founders have direct industry experience and a strong technical background.
- **Remote/hybrid/office policy**: In-office in San Francisco, CA (Built In confirms "In-Office" policy).
- **Notable perks or engineering culture**: 
    - Tackling difficult technical challenges in computer vision, LLMs, and "model-garden" architecture.
    - Competitive compensation for early-stage: $120K – $180K salary + 0.10% – 0.40% equity.
    - Open to new graduates (YC jobs listing says "Any (new grads ok)").
    - Small, focused team (6–8 people) offering high ownership and impact.

## Sources
1. [bild.ai](https://www.bild.ai/)
2. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/bild-ai)
3. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/bild-ai)
4. [ycombinator.com/jobs](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/bild-ai/jobs)
5. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/bild-ai)

## Other roles at Bild AI

- [Founding AI Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-ai-engineer-bild-ai-san-francisco-y3ge0q0rsegc) — San Francisco, CA
- [Founding Product Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-product-engineer-bild-ai-san-francisco-rw2mvrpz7g3g) — San Francisco, CA