Founding Platform Architect for AI-Driven Construction

Different Technologies Pty Ltd.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Founding-team equity (2-4%)

Job summary

Intellus Build is building the nervous system for construction—an AI-native operating system that connects dirt to dollars. As Founding Engineering Lead, you'll architect and build the foundation of our entire platform, partnering with our founder and construction industry veterans to ship impactful AI features to real sites, iterating on field feedback.

This role offers true ownership: define the tech stack, culture, and growth path while shaping an AI infrastructure for a multi-trillion-dollar

Qualifications

• 4–7 years building production systems (exceptional cases reviewed).
• Deep in one area (frontend / backend / infra / mobile) but capable across stack.
• Ship a prototype this weekend when hearing new ideas and ships fast.
• Pragmatic, but with strong architectural opinions.
• Experienced building systems used by 1,000+ users.

Responsibilities

• Design our entire technical architecture from scratch and scale to millions of users.
• Build the core platform that other engineers will build on top of.
• Ship our first AI features to real construction sites and iterate based on field feedback.
• Set up CI/CD, monitoring, and infra for rapid daily deploys.
• Recruit and mentor the next engineers and define our engineering culture.
• Architect systems that scale from single-site contractors to 100+ location portfolio operations.

Skills

Production systems

Full-stack capability

Rapid prototyping

Architectural rigor

Scale to 1k+ users

Job description

Intellus Build is building the nervous system for construction—an AI-native operating system that connects dirt to dollars. As Founding Engineering Lead, you'll architect and build the foundation of our entire platform, partnering with our founder and construction industry veterans to ship impactful AI features to real sites, iterating on field feedback.

This role offers true ownership: define the tech stack, culture, and growth path while shaping an AI infrastructure for a multi-trillion-dollar