Construction Project Engineer

Ambitus Research; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Ambitus Research is seeking engineers to review complex building drawing sets against governing documents and identify every non-compliance. You will judge whether AI-generated reviews correctly locate violations and explain them.

The role emphasizes hands-on design review and preparing drawing sets and governing documents for AI training. Candidates should have a Bachelor's in civil or structural engineering with 3+ years on building projects, including drawing review, QA/QC, or plan check.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in civil or structural engineering or equivalent professional experience.
• At least 3 years of relevant professional experience on building projects with drawing review, QA/QC, or plan check.

Responsibilities

• Review multi-discipline drawing sets against a governing document and identify every non-compliance, including violations that only surface when sheets, details, and schedules are cross-referenced.
• Record each finding in a structured format (CSV), citing the sheet, element tag or grid reference, governing clause, and a clear description of the issue.
• Evaluate AI-generated review findings against reference answers, flagging missed violations, false positives, incorrect locations, and misapplied clauses.
• Develop challenging review tasks, reference answer sets, and grading criteria that reflect professional engineering practice.
• Document assumptions and interpretations where the governing document or drawings are ambiguous or conflicting.

Skills

Drawing review

QA/QC

Plan check

Engineering judgment

Education

Bachelor's degree in civil or structural engineering

Job description

Ambitus is an applied AI product and research company that partners with domain experts and enterprises to advance frontier AI capabilities.

About the role

We are working to build the future of AI by pushing the boundaries of what frontier models can achieve.

This role focuses on reviewing complex building drawing sets against governing documents, such as a basis of design, owner's project requirements, code excerpts, or industry standards, and identifying every place the drawings fail to comply. You will also judge whether AI-generated reviews correctly find, locate, and explain those violations. We're looking for practicing civil and structural engineers with hands‑on design review or plan‑check experience who can provide and/or prepare suitable drawing sets and governing documents that they are authorized to share and that permit use for AI training.

Responsibilities

• Review multi-discipline drawing sets against a governing document and identify every non-compliance, including violations that only surface when sheets, details, and schedules are cross-referenced.
• Record each finding in a structured format (CSV), citing the sheet, element tag or grid reference, governing clause, and a clear description of the issue.
• Evaluate AI-generated review findings against reference answers, flagging missed violations, false positives, incorrect locations, and misapplied clauses.
• Develop challenging review tasks, reference answer sets, and grading criteria that reflect professional engineering practice.
• Document assumptions and interpretations where the governing document or drawings are ambiguous or conflicting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in civil or structural engineering, or a closely related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• At least 3 years of relevant professional experience, with current work on building projects and hands‑on experience in drawing review, QA/QC, or plan check.

Application process

The hiring team reviews resumes and reaches out to shortlisted candidates with next steps.