# Founding AI Engineer

The commercial real estate space is ripe for disruption. The industry has exploded in size and revenue, but still runs on fragmented CRMs, legacy loan systems, email, spreadsheets, phone calls, and document portals. Legacy players are struggling to adapt to an AI-native age, while lenders and brokers are constrained by manual work. We’re going to change that. We’re building an autonomous loan origination and processing platform that helps commercial real estate lenders move loans from intake through underwriting with no manual work. We’re: An experienced team used to shipping fast - with alumni and tech leads from Meta, LinkedIn, and Rippling. Backed by a16z through Speedrun. Working with multiple paid pilots, and moving quickly from customer conversations to production software. The Role We’re looking for a founding AI/ML engineer to build the intelligent systems at the heart of our product. You’ll work directly with the founders and customers and own the full production loop: data, model selection and adaptation, evaluations, serving, monitoring, and iteration. You’ll turn messy, real-world financial information into reliable decisions and actions. You'll: Build production AI

- **Id**: 3952536
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/a16z-speedrun-founding-ai-engineer>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T04:35:14Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T04:35:14Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2562
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **Industries**: Commercial Real Estate

## Company

- **Id**: 4398864
- **Name**: a16z speedrun
- **Domain**: speedrun.a16z.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/a16z-speedrun>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: yes

## Technologies

- **Multimodal AI** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T04:52:34Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: seen:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

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