# Founding Applied AI Engineer at Alkali

- Company: Alkali (YC P25)
- What the company does: The smarter way to estimate steel. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://alkali.engineering
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: New York, NY, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $150K to $220K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-07-15
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/alkali/jobs/3iTB9w5-founding-applied-ai-engineer
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/alkali-founding-applied-ai-engineer/

## About the role

We are hiring a founding AI engineer to help own Alkali’s core AI systems. You will develop and optimize: • Vision Models: Improve vision models to extract quantities, sizes, quantities, text, etc from engineering drawings.

## What they're looking for

- • Trained and evaluated computer vision models
- • Designed data schemas and labeling ontologies
- • Built and maintained large-scale data and model pipelines
- • Built and evaluated agents with complex tool sets
- • The ability to take ownership outside your existing specialty and quickly learn unfamiliar domains, including engineering drawings and construction workflows

Tags: Engineering