tl;dr
Kuro is building the AI automation platform for the back-office of construction companies. Our applied AI product is already live at leading construction enterprises, delivering a 90% efficiency increase. We are looking for a founding AI product engineer who joins us in building this platform in Berlin.
Berlin, 80k€ +/- 20% (based on experience), 0.5% - 1.5% equity
About Kuro
Kuro was founded by Lea & Jonas, who’ve built the construction tech scale ups alcemy and Capmo before. Kuro is building the AI automation platform for construction companies. We help construction professionals to utilize their biggest data source - the 95% of unstructured data. Our entry is in the estimation (quoting) process, the core, and most expensive back office process. Our product extracts information from the project input, identifies building components automatically and enriches it back into a 3D model - saving up to 90% time.
Leading construction enterprises use Kuro already today.
We just raised a pre-seed round from the leading global construction tech VC and are looking to grow our team in Berlin.
You would be one of our first hires — we’ve been early employees before. Joining an early stage startup was the best decision we ever took, and we are excited to pay it forward.
Learn more: Join Kuro - Hiring Founding Engineers [Berlin]
About the role
You will own and operate on improving and adding new features to our AI automation use cases. Each construction project from our customers consists of 300 - 3000 files ranging from PDFs, over drawing, scans etc. On top of these data we are building high impact automation or insight use cases that help our customers save days of work (e.g. one use case cuts down the workload from 5 days to 4 hours). Unlocking new levels of ROI and impact. Your job is to prototype, optimize and productionize these use cases for our customers.
You will be working closely with Jonas (CPTO) who owns tech and product.
Develop Customer-Focused Use Cases
- Prototype and deliver automation and insights use cases rapidly.
- Evaluate feasibility and ROI for customer-specific applications.
Optimize and Productionize Solutions
- Manage experimentation pipelines and perform error analysis.
- Oversee evaluations, scoring, and golden data set creation.
Enhance ML and Data Pipelines
- Continuously improve pipelines to support new and existing use cases
Refine Evaluation Processes
- Optimize evaluation and scoring systems for robust performance monitoring.
Past and current projects you would have been involved in
- Boosted accuracy by 9% through prompt engineering with customer feedback.
- Achieved an 11% accuracy improvement using LLM for prompt rewriting (LLM-as-an-audience).
- Reduced hallucinations by implementing an LLM-as-judge approach.
- Enhanced search relevance through BM25/Hybrid Search implementation.
- Developed use cases like mapping 3D-model metadata using LLMs.
Current Tech Stack
It is still day 0 for Kuro. Therefore, we are highly pragmatic with our tool choices. We believe in keeping it simple and moving quickly. You significantly help shape our tech stack decisions.
- Web-App: Retool
- Cloud Functions: Retool / Supabase
- Database / Vector DB and File Storage: Supabase (postgress / pgvector) / AWS S3
- Backend (Document Pipelines & applied AI): Fast API / Python
- Hosting: Railway
- AI: Azure, Gemini, Cohere
- Eval. & Tracking: Langfuse
The opportunity
You are joining Kuro among the first hires maybe even first hire. You will have significant influence over our product and how we build it and will be incentivized as such.
Your decisions and code will lay the foundation for Kuro, requiring a balance between fast iteration and delivering value to our customers, managing technical debt, and planning for scale.
You’ll own key parts of Kuro end-to-end, with the freedom to grow as a top individual contributor or take on managerial responsibilities over time. This is your chance to shape both your career and the future of Kuro.
Your profile
This is the perfect role for an experienced engineer who wants to join an early stage company that builds a high impact applied AI product
- You thrive working in a small and accountable team with a lot of ownership
- You want to take full ownership in solving customer problems by designing and implementing features
- You are passionate about the potential of GenAI, a strong believer in its transformative power, and eager to explore how it can be applied to solve real-world challenges in the construction industry
- You have 3 years of experience as a software engineer in a fast-paced environment
- You have impressive achievements from previous careers and from side projects — we’re excited to hear about these!
- You build already applied end-to-end AI use cases and brought them to production
Bonus Points
- You’ve started a company before or worked at a very early stage startup
- German-speaking
Team, Values & Benefits
We work in-person from our office in the heart of Berlin-Mitte. You must be willing to be located in Berlin. We aim for 4-5 days in the office a week.
We aim to build a small, highly motivated team of smart, kind, and driven individuals who are eager to learn, embrace challenges, and challenge others in return. We value pragmatic people who are unafraid to take ownership and decisions.
- We plan on only hiring engineers for the foreseeable future
- We are strongly focused on delivering value to our enterprise customers fast
- We plan to have as little overhead as possible
- We set weekly goals and work towards them
- You can expect to have ~1 meeting a day on average
About the process
- Intro Call - Intro, Logistics & Fit with Lea (30min)
- Second Call - Get to know Product and Tech at Kuro with Jonas (60min)
- Third Call - Technical Interview: Coding challenge and Systems Design (90min)
- On-site Day (0.5-1 day)
- We will get together in our office in Berlin and work together on a real problem for a day.
- This will include planing, building and shipping a small feature.
- Decision
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