Candid Intelligence · 16 hours ago
Founding AI Engineer (Multimodal Ingestion & Agents)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$150K/yr - $200K/yrCandid Intelligence is developing innovative systems for pre-construction engineering in large infrastructure projects. The Founding AI Engineer will focus on building vision pipelines, designing agentic systems, and improving workflows by capturing expert feedback.
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
Proficiency in Python, PyTorch, multimodal LLMs, and open-source VLMs (Gemma, Qwen, DeepSeek, etc)
Experience with LangGraph, PydanticAI, or custom state machines
Familiarity with graph databases (Neo4j) and vector databases
Preferred
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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