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We're vertically integrated across hardware, manufacturing, logistics, collection, and model training to scale the physical labor dataset orders of magnitude faster than anyone in the world.\nJob Summary\nWe've collected the largest dataset of physical labor in the world. We're scaling to 1B hours over the next two years, collecting data from 100M+ people worldwide. You'll build and lead the team that writes the software to get us there.\nHow data collection works\nWe give wearable cameras to field teams and partners. Each day, they recruit workers, assign devices, pay workers to wear the cameras on the job, collect the devices/SD cards, and upload the footage. At scale, inefficiency, fraud, and human error emerge: devices and SD cards get lost or stolen, devices sit idle, and contributors produce poor-quality data.\nWhat you'll own\nBuild the team: hire and lead the Shenzhen software team. You set the hiring bar, the technical direction, and the pace, and you stay hands-on while the team grows.\n\nVendor platform: the Android and web app that coordinates our operators, partners, and vendors as they source, onboard, and pay contributors and businesses. That covers device assignment, attendance, collection tracking, payments, and fraud/loss prevention. Like Didi or Uber, but for data collection.\n\nPartner growth: referral programs that grow the partner network, and models that forecast how much data existing and new partners can collect.\n\nData infrastructure: upload, storage, and processing pipelines that run at petabytes per month and grow 10× a year.\n\nData QA: orchestrate, train, and fine-tune models for a QA pipeline that catches bad data automatically.\n\nRecruiting tools: software that speeds up hiring across the company.\n\nAnything else that is blocking scale.\n\nYou'll work directly with the founders and the global ops team, and you'll own outcomes end to end, from setting priorities to shipping and supporting the work.\nCulture fit\nYou believe your life is wasted if you do not change the world in some non-trivial way.\n\nYou are excited to put everything into the company to do your life's work.\n\nYou love solving hard problems. The harder, the better.\n\nYou thrive with autonomy: spot problems, solve them, own the outcome.\n\nRequirements\nHave built and led an engineering team, including hiring strong engineers yourself.\n\nHave built and shipped software that real users depend on, and are still hands-on.\n\nComfortable across frontend, backend, APIs, and databases.\n\nFluent in English and able to be based in Shenzhen full time.\n\nNice to have\nAndroid app development.\n\nData pipelines, large file uploads, or ML/QA systems.\n\nHiring experience in Shenzhen.\n\nCan start immediately.\n\nBenefits\nCompetitive pay\n\nMedical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n\n$500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\nHousing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\nRelocation support for those moving to San Francisco (Financial District) or Shenzhen (Nanshan)\n\nVarious wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\nDaily lunch and dinner in our office\n\nUnlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\nUnlimited Codex and Claude credits\n\nTravel\n\nHow we're different\nBuild believes in the Bitter Lesson. By taking a general approach of learning from humans, our addressable market is all physical labor.\nWe are a fully in-person team in San Francisco (Financial District) and Shenzhen (Nanshan), and greatly value engineering skills. We do not have boundaries between engineering and research, and we expect all of our technical staff to contribute to both and work across disciplines as needed.\nBuild AI is an equal opportunity employer. We review every application. If you do not meet every bullet, still apply. 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