TheTakeoff.AI

Software Development Engineer (SDE II) - Backend & Platform
Experience: 3+ years | Location: Bangalore (In-person) | Type: Full-time

Who We Are
TheTakeoff.AI is an AI-powered estimation engine built for industrial contractors. It reads P&ID; drawings (Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams), extracts component counts, and generates material takeoffs that would otherwise take estimators hundreds of hours to produce by hand.

The product targets specialty mechanical and petrochemical contractors on the US Gulf Coast, where a single refinery bid package can run 300+ P&IDs; and a full piping takeoff can consume 875 estimator-hours. We automate that first pass so the estimator can verify and refine 5 to 10 times faster than starting from scratch.

TheTakeoff.AI is built by ContraVault AI, a GenAI company founded by alumni of IIT-Delhi, NSUT, and XLRI Jamshedpur, with professional backgrounds spanning ITC, Microsoft, Nokia, GE, Alstom, ABB, and prior startups. The India-side platform already automates the tender and RFP lifecycle for enterprise teams.



TheTakeoff.AI extends that document intelligence into industrial estimation for the US market.

About the Role
We're hiring an SDE II to build and own core parts of the backend powering an AI-first estimation product used by industrial contractors.
You'll design and ship production services that process large volumes of complex engineering drawings, run agentic AI workflows, and stay reliable under enterprise workloads. The work spans API design, data modeling, distributed document processing, container orchestration on Kubernetes, and the runtime systems that make LLM-powered extraction quick, accurate, and cost-efficient.
You'll work directly with the CTO and founding team, own architectural decisions end-to-end, and help set engineering standards as the team grows.
Because the product sits at the intersection of AI and a specialized industrial domain, prior exposure to estimation workflows, engineering drawings,

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