Structural Design Engineer (Founding Team/Consultant) at Structured AI (F25)
$80K - $85K
AI workforce for Construction Engineering
New York, NY, US / Remote (US)
Full-time
US citizen/visa only
1+ years
About Structured AI

Structured AI is building the AI workforce for construction design engineering.

Today, billions of dollars and months of human effort are wasted because engineers must manually check thousands of drawings for tiny mistakes that lead to massive rework. It's slow, painful, and deeply uncreative.

We're changing that.

Structured builds AI agents that understand complex mechanical, electrical, structural, and civil drawings — and automatically perform high-precision QA/QC, code compliance, and design consistency checks.

Engineers shouldn't be stuck hunting for missing tags at 2 AM. They should focus on designing the future.

Our long-term vision is bold:

become the go-to software platform for design engineers — from quality-controlling plans today, to generating and optimizing them tomorrow.

This means next-generation computer vision systems, autonomous workflows, and eventually true AI co-designers.

About the role

As a Structural Design Engineer (Founding Team) at Structured, you will sit at the intersection of professional engineering judgment and frontier AI.

This is a product-first role: you aren't just performing engineering tasks; you are productizing structural intelligence.

Working directly with our CTO and CPO, you will translate the nuances of load paths, framing systems, and cross-disciplinary coordination into autonomous AI agents. Your mission is to ensure our platform delivers professional-grade accuracy while mitigating risk for the world’s largest engineering firms.

Your core responsibilities:

  • Encode Expertise: Translate complex structural logic, material standards, and building codes into structured patterns our AI agents can execute.
  • Product Co-Design: Partner with engineering to test features, ship weekly, and ensure outputs meet a professional "PE-level" bar of excellence.
  • Strategic Delivery: Lead the technical delivery of AI-produced reviews for enterprise clients, identifying the edge cases that drive our next model iteration.
  • Customer Front-Lines: Join technical discovery with top-tier structural and multi-disciplinary firms to map their internal standards and pain points.
  • Scale Systems: Identify recurring design patterns and structural inconsistencies across massive datasets to build automated "checks" into the core platform.

Who you are

  • Industry Veteran: 2+ years of structural design experience. You’ve lived the pain of manual "redlining" and the complexity of Revit-based documentation.
  • QA/QC Specialist: You have a proven track record of performing independent peer reviews and catching the framing or connection errors others miss.
  • Systems Thinker: You can abstract patterns from specific projects and turn them into universal engineering logic.
  • Hacker Mindset: You are a clear, structured communicator who is naturally inclined to automate your own workflows.

Nice to haves:

  • Experience in BIM coordination or VDC (Virtual Design and Construction).
  • Familiarity with AI/ML tools or early-stage startup environments.

Visa: CPT Eligible

Compensation (full-time) : $80,000 - 85,000 

Consulting option: Competitive hourly or project-based rate

Technology

We work across AI, computer vision, and full-stack engineering:

  • SvelteKit + Tailwind
  • FastAPI / Python backend
  • Large-scale document processing
  • Custom CV models (segmentation)
  • OCR + multimodal LLMs
  • Azure, Postgres, blob storage
  • Distributed queues
  • Revit, BIM360, Office Add-ins

If you like big PDFs, GPU workloads, clever agents, or turning messy drawings into structured meaning, this is your place.

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