Job description
AI Engineer
Company Overview
After 14 years in construction tech, Lea & Jonas are building the intelligence layer for the construction industry. The largest construction enterprises in Europe with a combined project volume of over €30bn annually rely on Kuro every day to automate workflows and make faster, better decisions. We are 14 people based in Berlin.
The Opportunity
As AI Engineer, you’ll work directly with Kuro’s CPO Jonas on building and scaling high-impact AI automation use cases for some of the most complex construction projects in the industry. This is a highly hands-on and high-ownership role at the intersection of AI, product, and customer impact. Your role will be to prototype, optimize, and productionize AI-driven workflows and automation use cases.
What you’ll do
- Optimize and Productionize Solutions: Manage experimentation pipelines and perform error analysis.
- Oversee evaluations, scoring, and golden data set creation.
- Enhance ML and Data Pipelines: Continuously improve pipelines to support new and existing use cases.
- Refine Evaluation Processes: Optimize evaluation and scoring systems for robust performance monitoring.
Past and current projects
- Boosted accuracy by 9% through prompt engineering with customer feedback.
- Achieved an 11% accuracy improvement using LLM for prompt rewriting (LLM-as-an-audience).
- Reduced hallucinations by implementing an LLM-as-judge approach.
- Enhanced search relevance through BM25/Hybrid Search implementation.
- Developed use cases like mapping 3D-model metadata using LLMs.
Current Tech Stack
- Web-App: Typescript / Vite
- Cloud Functions: Supabase
- Database / Vector DB and File Storage: Supabase (postgress) / Weaviate / AWS S3
- Backend (Document Pipelines & applied AI): Fastify API / TS + Python for ML Services
- Hosting: Railway (Moving to AWS)
- AI: Azure / OpenAI, Gemini, Cohere
- Obsv., Eval. & Tracking: Langfuse, Datadog
Your profile
- You thrive working in a small and accountable team with a lot of ownership.
- You love 0 to 1 phase.
- You want to take full ownership in solving customer problems.
- You are passionate about the potential of GenAI.
- You’ve built applied AI/ML use cases and brought them to production.
- You have at least 3+ years of experience as a software engineer, machine learning engineer or AI engineer in a fast paced environment.
- You are fluent in English.
- You are happy to work onsite at our office (Berlin Mitte) on a daily basis.
Why Kuro
This is your chance to join extremely early and help build one of Kuro core functions while shaping the future of a critical industry.
The process
- Intro Call - Intro, Logistics & Fit with Lea (30min)
- Second Call - Get to know Product and Tech at Kuro with Jonas (30min)
- Technical Challenge - time boxed home assignment (~5 hours)
- Technical Review and Systems Design Challenge (90min)
- On-site Day: Culture Interview (30 Min), Meet several team members, Go for lunch or dinner.
