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Muro AI · 1 month ago

AI Research Engineer

San Francisco, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$175K/yr - $220K/yr

4+ years exp

Muro AI is transforming the construction industry by building AI agents that automate preconstruction processes. The AI Research Engineer will tackle complex challenges in document understanding and agentic execution to enhance productivity and decision-making in construction.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Generative AIMachine LearningPublishing

Responsibilities

Build the document understanding layer that powers everything downstream

Create the foundational multimodal system that all downstream agents depend on

Research and build models that understand complex construction-specific documents formats - using custom fine tuned multimodal models and RAG architectures

Architect pipelines for OCR, image segmentation, layout analysis, entity resolution

Build rigorous evals and benchmarks from real-world documents

Push agentic AI into production

Context engineer construction the agent harnesses for multi-step construction workflows

Architect and expose novel tools

Own the full path from prototype to deployment alongside the AI engineering team

Make AI reliable for million-dollar decisions

Build labeled datasets with construction SMEs

Develop hallucination-detection, confidence calibration, and evaluation frameworks tailored to the most complex AEC tasks

Qualification

Deep technical ML experienceDocument understanding modelsMultimodal systemsOCR experienceEntity resolutionRLHF experienceRAG systemsCommunication skillsProblem-solving skillsTeam collaboration

Required

A research-minded builder with 4–6+ years of deep technical ML experience

Comfortable in the messy 0→1 phase: half-baked specs, ambiguous problem statements, and solving foundational technical challenges

Curious, rigorous, and want to own hard problems end-to-end—from research to production

Ability to communicate complex work clearly to engineers, product, and leadership

Preferred

Prior 0→1 or founding-team experience at a startup

Experience working directly with users or in forward-deployed environments

Built a multimodal model or document-understanding pipeline used in production

Hands-on experience with RLHF, DPO, SFT, or parameter-efficient fine-tuning methods

Advanced OCR/CV experience (layout-aware models, document transformers, segmentation)

Designed or scaled RAG systems for complex, multi-document retrieval

Experience with agentic LLM systems, tool use, or multi-step reasoning harnesses

Background in architectural/engineering drawings (AEC experience is a plus, not required)

Benefits

Meaningful equity

Company

Muro AI

Muro AI is AI Agents for Architectural, Engineering and Construction companies to automate several pre-construction activities, including scoping and bid leveling.

Founded in 2023

New York, New York, USA

2-10 employees