Candid Intelligence ยท 6 days ago
Founding AI Engineer (Multimodal Ingestion & Agents)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior LevelCandid Intelligence is focused on transforming pre-construction engineering for large compute and energy infrastructure projects. They are seeking a Founding AI Engineer to develop systems that can understand and process complex engineering data, creating efficient workflows for design reviews and technical evaluations.
Construction
Responsibilities
Build vision pipelines that extract structure, entities, and spatial relationships from engineering diagrams and documents
Design agentic systems that decompose large pre-construction tasks into discrete, verifiable steps
Build human-in-the-loop flows to capture expert feedback and improve system correctness
Own systems end-to-end, from raw inputs to structured outputs used in production workflows
Qualification
Required
Build vision pipelines that extract structure, entities, and spatial relationships from engineering diagrams and documents
Design agentic systems that decompose large pre-construction tasks into discrete, verifiable steps
Build human-in-the-loop flows to capture expert feedback and improve system correctness
Own systems end-to-end, from raw inputs to structured outputs used in production workflows
Python, PyTorch, multimodal LLMs, and open-source VLMs (Gemma, Qwen, DeepSeek, etc)
LangGraph, PydanticAI, or custom state machines
Graph databases (Neo4j), vector databases
Preferred
Strong opinions about system design, even when tradeoffs aren't obvious
Cares deeply about keeping the codebase clean and understandable
Feels physical discomfort when seeing inefficient code or fragile architectures
Has good intuition when designing new systems without a spec
Cares about taste, clarity, and building things that feel right, not just things that work
Early or founding engineer at a YC-backed company
Experience with document intelligence, vision pipelines, or agent-based systems
Built something from scratch that real users depended on
Technical founder at a VC-backed startup
Company
Candid Intelligence
2-10 employees
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