Founding Product Engineer at Bild AI (San Francisco, CA)Founding Product Engineer

We founded Bild AI to tackle the mess that is blueprint reading, cost estimation, and permit applications in construction. It's a really 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 businessinsider.com

• Own features end-to-end — interview customers every week and watch them use the product, and ship the feature they need by the next week
• Actually use the algorithms, data structures, and system design that you learned
• Revolutionize how people read blueprints today for people who've been doing this on paper. They actually thank us on customer calls and are giddy when we launch new features
• Work across the stack: React frontend, Python backend + infra
• Have ownership on product direction and approach across everything we build

• Great product taste — you care about how things look, feel, and work for the user
• 0-to-1 architect and builder who can work across the entire stack
• Comfort talking to customers directly and translating messy domain knowledge into clean product decisions
• Growth mindset, slope > y-intercept
• Communicate with empathy and honesty. Tell us what makes you happy/unhappy
• Don’t mind schlep paulgraham.com/schlep.html. We are regularly knee-deep in schlep

• Have built something people used/paid for (founder/startup)
• Have a construction background
• Are impact-driven

• Why we’re a fit
• Your favorite fruit (mine is Sitaphal en.wikipedia.org/Custard_apple)
• (Please keep it short)

1. 15 min intro
2. 1 hour whiteboard technical
3. 1 hour coding technical
4. 3-5 day paid work trial

• SF-based or willing to relocate, fulltime in-office