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Its interdisciplinary team of engineers, scientists, and domain experts is developing an AI platform to solve complex problems across the built environment.\nThe Opportunity\nThis is an opportunity to help build a production AI platform from the ground up and influence its backend, data, and deployment foundations. You will own meaningful technical capabilities end to end, from initial prototype through production deployment.\nThe Role\nYou will work across backend engineering and data engineering, building services and pipelines that support inference, optimization, machine learning models, and complex multimodal data. 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