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Muro AI · 23 hours ago

Founding Engineer – AI

Muro AI is transforming the construction industry by building AI agents that automate the preconstruction phase. The Founding Engineer will create agentic workflows, implement AI systems, and collaborate with customers to enhance bidding processes and project efficiency.

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Responsibilities

Build agentic workflows that work
Create agents to complete multi-step construction tasks
Implement tool use for Procore APIs, Excel manipulation, and document generation
Build agents that read plans, update budgets, and generate RFIs autonomously
Ship production RAG systems
Process 1,500-page plan sets
Build pipelines that understand construction specs and drawings
Handle messy, real-world documents - scanned, rotated, hand-marked
Deliver semantic search that actually finds the door schedule on page 347
Embed with customers
Sit with estimators during bid week
Understand workflows, then turn 'we manually compare 50 subcontractor bids' into an intelligent agent
Own the AI stack
Python services orchestrating model calls
Celery workers for long-running jobs
Vector DBs for semantic search
Context engineering, evaluation frameworks, and monitoring for quality
Dockerized workloads on GCP infra
Make AI reliable
Build evaluation datasets from real construction docs
Collaborate with SMEs to catch hallucinations and make models accurate enough for million-dollar decisions

Qualification

AI/MLPythonGCPComputer VisionDockerFastAPIData PipelinesCustomer InteractionScrappy Problem SolvingTeam Leadership

Required

4+ years of technical experience
Hands-on builders with 4+ years of experience delivering applied AI to real users
Experience with Python services orchestrating model calls
Experience with Celery workers for long-running jobs
Experience with Vector DBs for semantic search
Experience with context engineering, evaluation frameworks, and monitoring for quality
Experience with Dockerized workloads on GCP infra
Experience with LLM APIs, Agentic frameworks, RAG pipelines, Vector DBs, Langfuse
Experience with FastAPI, Node.js/TypeScript
Experience with PDF parsing, spreadsheets, computer vision, unstructured data pipelines

Preferred

Built and deployed an AI feature with real users
AEC industry experience
Worked with computer vision or advanced OCR pipelines
Fine-tuned a model with a custom-built datasets
Roles involving coding + customer interaction (FDE, Solutions Engineer, etc.)
Prior founding-team or 0→1 experience

Benefits

Will cover relocation costs

Company

Muro AI

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

Funding

Current Stage
Early Stage
Total Funding
$0.12M
Key Investors
Techstars
2023-09-11Pre Seed· $0.12M

Leadership Team

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Kalyan Gautham
Co-Founder & CEO
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Gregory Schweickert
Co-Founder
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