Founding Engineer - AI
Company: Muro AI
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: February 17, 2026
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Job Description:
Job Description Job Description About Muro AI Muro AI is
transforming how the $2T construction industry plans and builds.
Founded by Cornell alumni, ex-founders, and former McKinsey
operators, we’re building AI agents that automate the most complex,
manual, and costly phase of construction: preconstruction. We move
fast, build with conviction, and obsess over delivering real impact
to the people who build our world. If you want to shape how the
next century of construction gets built, this is where it starts.
Who You Are A true builder with 4 years of technical experience.
You’ve lived the 0?1 chaos - maybe you co-founded something, or led
a team through the trenches. You know that the good (fast growth)
and the ugly (2 AM patches) come with the territory. You’re
scrappy, curious, and energized by uncharted problems. Why It
Matters Shape a category . No one owns “pre-con AI” yet — we’re
charting that map. Bridge two worlds. Effect changes in an
estimator’s spreadsheet with multimodal models that understand
construction documents. Drive impact. Your AI agents will help
contractors close multi-million-dollar bids and save hundreds of
hours per project. Your Mission 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. Tech Stack AI/ML: LLM APIs, Agentic
frameworks, RAG pipelines, Vector DBs, Langfuse Backend: Python
(FastAPI), Celery, Node.js/TypeScript Infra: GCP, Docker, Supabase
Data: PDF parsing, spreadsheets, computer vision, unstructured data
pipelines Who Should Apply We want hands-on builders with 4 years
of experience delivering applied AI to real users. You might be: A
Full-Stack Engineer hacking with LLMs who wants to go deeper A
Forward Deployed Engineer who wants to build AI, not just integrate
it An ML Engineer who wants to ship products, not just models A
Data Scientist tired of notebooks who wants to ship production code
A Founding Engineer or ex-CTO ready for the next challenge You'll
Stand Out If You Have 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
Real Talk You’ll own customer and agent implementations end-to-end.
You’ll ship to production within days, not weeks. Specs will be
half-baked - you’ll fill in the blanks. You’ll wear many hats: dev,
architect, product, recruiter, and support hero. If you love making
AI solve real problems for real people, you’ll thrive. Location:
In-person in San Francisco Compensation: $120K – $200K base
competitive equity Compensation Range: $120K - $200K
Keywords: Muro AI, West Sacramento , Founding Engineer - AI, Engineering , San Francisco, California
