# Founding Software Engineer

About Fresco America is in a housing crisis that starts with one simple problem: It’s almost impossible to predict how much buildings will cost. Fresco is solving this problem after we (Akhil and Arvind) saw estimators lose $MMs in bad bids. We’ve built the category leader in estimating software, scaled past $1M in ARR in just 5 months, and work with some of the largest players in the industry. The Technical Problem Construction blueprints aren't clean data. They're enormous, spatially complex PDFs full of ambiguous annotations, inconsistent scales, and domain-specific shorthand that no frontier model handles well. You'll be building systems that: Parse and extract structured line items from GBs of messy blueprint PDFs at scale Help LLMs turn unstructured construction documents into accurate estimates Close the loop with users: talk to an estimator in the morning, ship a fix by afternoon Our Process We obsess over getting the data model right so the rest of the code flows easily. We create pull requests for visibility but skip code review. We optimize for shipping speed, not process. Who You Are You love pushing frontier models to do things they aren’t supposed to You're a mid-care

- **Id**: 142772
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/fresco-founding-software-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-08-28T04:23:50Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-22
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T03:34:20Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 73
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1763
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: AI Agents, Construction Management Software

## Company

- **Id**: 720372
- **Name**: Fresco
- **Domain**: fresco.build
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/fresco-5>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Work at a Startup

## Salary

- **Min**: 100000
- **Max**: 250000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 250000

## Technologies

- **Anthropic** — Optional: no
- **OpenAI** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 73

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-08-28T04:23:50Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Filed H-1B visas in the last two years; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 11
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.396
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 73
- **Expected fill days**: 25
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 250000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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