Founding Engineer - Arkhe
About the role
Founding Engineer role at AutoSitu (Arkhe) to build AI-native, distributed-systems for autonomous development-review agents and BIM-native intelligence in the built world. Direct collaboration with founders on end-to-end architecture, product direction, and customer-focused delivery.
Responsibilities
- Develop the core intelligence behind autonomous agents for reviewing, designing, and coordinating the built world.
- Create physical-AI systems that understand BIM models, 3D geometry, spatial relationships, and real-world constraints.
- Build the persistent project intelligence layer that allows AutoSitu to understand one project continuously as it moves from feasibility through design and construction.
- Design distributed workflows that coordinate specialized agents across multimodal project artifacts in parallel.
- Establish the context and data infrastructure for city-scale digital twins that autonomous agents can understand, design, and act within.
- Create evaluation infrastructure for high-stakes outputs where accuracy, evidence, and judgment all matter
- Improve agent reliability through structured reasoning, retries, observability, human feedback, and failure analysis
- Own product features end to end—from system architecture and model behavior to UI, deployment, and customer feedback
- Work directly with architects, engineers, developers, contractors, and public-sector reviewers to understand how the product performs on real projects
- Make foundational decisions about engineering architecture, product direction, and technical culture
Qualifications
- Any level of experience (new grads ok)
Skills
About AutoSitu
AI-native workspace for development plan reviews
At AutoSitu, we’re building coordinated AI agents that live inside cities’ cross-department development review workflows—doing the heavy lifting, escalating judgment calls, and letting staff focus where human expertise actually matters. AutoSitu provides expert-level guidance and catch issues in minutes, helping cities and design firms/developers navigate an increasingly complex and fragmented regulatory environment. We serve as a strategic partner to forward-thinking public agencies and design teams across the country and are backed by Y Combinator (W26).