Company
Mason AI
Annual salary
$165k – $210k/yr
Location
San Francisco, CA
Listed
68d ago
- Experience:
- 3 to 8 years
- Workplace:
- 5 days in-office in San Francisco, CA
- Equity:
- 0.75-2%
On-site in San Francisco, CA.
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About this Role
We are looking for a Founding AI Engineer with 2-8 years of experience to join a mission-driven team automating architecture to solve the housing crisis. You'll work at the frontier of agentic AI for the built world, running high-autonomy experiments to improve multimodal agents that check blueprints for building code compliance, your work will directly impact how fast apartments get built in America.
What will you be doing?
• Generate hypotheses and run time-boxed experiments to improve the accuracy of multimodal AI agents
• Reflect on experiment results and update mental models to direct your own research roadmap
• Work on supervised fine-tuning, model distillation, auto-research, retrieval tasks, and context engineering
• Run computer vision evals and build internal tooling to accelerate experimentation
• Talk to users and dogfood the product weekly
What you need
- Highly autonomous and self-directed, able to manage your own workload and generate experiments without being told what to do
- Daily usage of AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, or similar)
- Blends SWE speed with ML rigor, not too researchy, not lacking experimentation skills
- Must work in-person 5 days/week in San Francisco
- Resonates with the mission of solving the housing crisis and wants to work at a seed-stage startup
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