Founding Software Engineer - Build the AI Platform to Transform the 14T€ Construction Industry (Berlin, Germany)

tl;drKuro is building the AI automation platform for the back-office of construction companies. Our applied AI product is already live at leading construction enterprises, delivering a 90% efficiency increase. We are looking for a founding software engineer who joins us in building this platform in Berlin.Berlin, 80k€ +/- 20% (based on experience), 0.5% - 1.5% equityAbout KuroKuro was founded by Lea & Jonas, who’ve built the construction tech scale ups alcemy and Capmo before. Kuro is building the AI automation platform for construction companies. We help construction professionals to utilize their biggest data source – the 95% of unstructured data. Our entry is in the estimation (quoting) process, the core, and most expensive back office process. Our product extracts information from the project input, identifies building components automatically and enriches it back into a 3D model. Saving up to 90% time.Leading construction enterprises use Kuro already today.We just raised a pre-seed round from the leading global construction tech VC and are looking to grow our team in Berlin. You would be one of our first hires - we’ve been early employees before. Joining an early stage startup was the best decision we ever took, and we are excited to pay it forward.Learn more: Join Kuro - Hiring Founding Engineers [Berlin]About the roleYou will own and operate our data pipelines, add new features to it and improve existing ones. Each project from our customers consists of 300 - 3000 files ranging from PDFs, over construction drawings, scans etc. A performant data ingestion is the foundation for everything we are building, thus has a high impact on our accuracy, ROI and user experience.You will be working closely with Jonas (CPTO) who owns tech and product.Role and responsibilities:Develop Scalable Data Pipelines and IntegrationsCreate and optimize systems to process diverse unstructured document types, including PDFs, scans, and construction drawings.Build integrations for structured data sources and customer systems, ensuring seamless data flow.Design and Implement Distributed InfrastructureArchitect and deploy a distributed, scalable, and secure infrastructure capable of hosting and processing large datasets efficiently.Adapt Customer OntologiesTranslate and implement customer-specific data structures (ontologies) into Kuro’s systems to enable fast development of new AI use-casesBuild end-to-end featuresDesigning and implementing new features to solve a specific user problem such as file navigationPast and current projects you would have been involved inBuilt pipelines to process 10+ file types efficiently.Developed systems to classify and organize datasets of 3,000+ files.Image/figure processing and embedding with vision modelsWorked on contextual embedding and document chunking for content extraction [https: