As a Founding Deployed Engineer, you will bridge the gap between AI capabilities and real-world execution for institutional real estate. You will own the entire deployment lifecycle, from scoping ambiguous problems with stakeholders to shipping production-grade agents. This is a high-impact role for a generalist ready to automate the global physical infrastructure landscape.
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New York City, USA$180K – $250K + 0.3% – 0.8% Equity
Featured roleNew York City, USA$180K – $250K + 0.3% – 0.8% Equity
Founding Deployed Engineer at BUILD, Inc.
Join BUILD, Inc. as a Founding Deployed Engineer and help redefine how the physical world is built. Backed by $8.5M from the C-suite of OpenAI and Blackstone, we are automating the built world's most complex workflows 90% faster than humans. We are looking for a high-velocity engineer who thrives on shipping production AI agents and working directly with trillion-dollar asset managers. If you want to move beyond prototypes and see your code drive digital infrastructure and energy projects from concept to completion, this is your chance to own a piece of a generational AI company in NYC.
Overview
Why this role stands out
Company
AI for the Built World1-50
BUILD, Inc. - AI for the Built World, backed by Blackstone and OpenAI executives.
Responsibilities
What you will do
- Design, build, and deploy production-grade AI agents using Python and LangGraph to automate complex real estate acquisitions and development workflows.
- Partner directly with customer stakeholders to translate messy, real-world requirements into scoped, shippable solutions with explicit success criteria.
- Build robust data collection and automation pipelines using web scraping, browser agents, and voice agents to enable end-to-end autonomous workflows.
Candidate profile
Who this is a fit for
- Possesses 2-6 years of professional experience with a proven track record of shipping and maintaining production-grade AI/ML systems in a fast-paced environment.
- Demonstrates strong full-stack capabilities and comfort working across the stack, from agent behavior and data workflows to infrastructure and platform concerns.
- Exhibits an ownership mindset with the ability to navigate high-stakes environments and communicate technical trade-offs clearly to non-technical institutional stakeholders.
What makes it remarkable
Why this role is remarkable
- Work at a high-velocity seed-stage startup with $8.5M in funding from premier investors like OpenAI and Blackstone C-suite members.
- Gain a true founder’s track experience by building from zero and influencing the core engineering culture of a generational vertical AI company.
- Directly impact the physical world by automating workflows for trillion-dollar asset managers and global infrastructure developers, seeing your code turn into real-world projects.
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