CTO/ Co-Founder/ Chief Coder for AI startup for building industry
Our venture is aimed at utilizing the latest AI technology to benefit two segments in the Building Industry: Corporate and Institutional Real Estate Owners who develop construction projects; and Lenders/ Finance Departments that fund those projects. The Building Industry is a $1.5 Trillion industry in the US and around $100 Billion is spent on due diligence and project monitoring. You would partner with the CEO/Founder/Chief Product Officer (CPO) who is a bit of a unicorn: tri-careers in: Software; Building Industry; Finance. That person is well known in these industries and has held leadership positions at Oracle, SAP/BusinessObjects, GE Digital, and some startups. He is a deep subject matter expert for the needed domain knowledge and to forge a new paradigm. Must already have permanent job status in the US without requiring any visa. Must be within a 2-hour drive of Pleasanton California for monthly meetings. Responsibilities (1) Own our DB schema, to be created in consultation with CEO/CPO. (2) Own the creation of working solution prototype. You will supervise up to two outsource companies in India, one of whom is a heavy hitter in AI, Machine Learning, LLM's, RAG. (3) Decide, along with an outside software architect from one of those firms in India, our architecture and tech stack. (4) Create and explain diagrams of #3 to Investors, Customers, Partners. (5) Coordinate the software houses in India, within their daily work schedule in their time zone. (6) Own our hosting operations which will utilize AWS or Digital Ocean. (7) Supervise the ongoing populating of a bespoke LLM and Training Data Repository with specialized data. Qualifications (1) Recent actual working experience with "low code/ no code" platforms to produce specialized LLM's and LM's. (2) Working knowledge of Machine Learning and Data Science. (3) Verifiable experience with React; NodeJS or Golang; Python; Postgres; and a popular hosting platform such as AWS or Digital Ocean. (4) Some knowledge of the building construction industry, i.e., more than just layman knowledge. (5) Have an entrepreneurial streak. (6) Effective written and verbal English communication skills, close to or equal to native-English speaking and writing. (7) Must be able to show a hosted business application you were responsible for. Please Self Select (1) Please do not apply if you do not permanently reside in Northern California. (2) Please do not apply if you require a visa to work for our company in California. (3) Please do not apply if you do have the hands-on Qualifications mentioned above. (4) Please do not apply if you are unwilling to do coding.