[Remote] Founding AI Engineer (Multimodal Ingestion & Agents)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Candid 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.

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

Skills

• 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
• 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 Overview

• It was founded in undefined, and is headquartered in San Francisco, US, with a workforce of 2-10 employees. Its website is https://www.candidintelligence.com/.

Company H1B Sponsorship

• Candid Intelligence has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2025. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.