# Senior AI Research Engineer

Artificial intelligence is rewriting every industry it touches - but construction, the second largest sector in the global economy, has barely felt it yet. That's not a problem. That's an opening. ZeroRFI is the AI company building the intelligence layer for the built environment - the platform that makes every building project smarter, faster, and more predictable than the last. We're looking for a Principal Software Engineer to architect the systems that put AI at the center of how buildings get designed, built, and operated. This isn't AI as a feature. It's AI as the foundation. We are seeking a Senior AI Engineer to lead the development of automated building design systems and advance the state-of-the-art in AI/ML applications for the built environment. You'll architect and implement generative design algorithms, computer vision systems, and optimization models that fundamentally transform how buildings are conceived, designed, and validated. This role sits at the intersection of deep learning, computational geometry, and architectural design, creating AI systems that augment human creativity while respecting engineering constraints and building codes. This is a rare opportunit

- **Id**: 4199709
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/zero-rfi-senior-ai-research-engineer>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-07-23T17:20:17Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-07-23
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T21:47:46Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 112
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5420
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Home office, Hybrid work, Unlimited PTO
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Artificial Intelligence

## Company

- **Id**: 4394391
- **Name**: Zero RFI
- **Domain**: zero-rfi.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/zero-rfi>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Technologies

- **A/B Testing** — Optional: no
- **Amazon SageMaker** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Computer Vision** — Optional: no
- **Diffusion Models** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **MLFlow** — Optional: no
- **NeRF** — Optional: no
- **NumPy** — Optional: no
- **Open3D** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **Scikit-learn** — Optional: no
- **SciPy** — Optional: no
- **Transformers** — Optional: no
- **Vertex AI** — Optional: no
- **Weights & Biases** — Optional: no
- **YOLO** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: yes
- **DGL** — Optional: yes
- **Isaac Sim** — Optional: yes
- **MuJoCo** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 112

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T21:47:46Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 12
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.419
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 112
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T23:26:56Z

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