SME - Construction

About ai71

SuperHive is the agentic AI platform for the construction industry, built by AI71 out of Abu Dhabi. We provide the intelligence that streamlines decisions across the full project lifecycle — AI agents that reason over the data construction generates, surface what matters, and automate the work humans shouldn't have to do. We are well established in the Gulf, working with the master developers and project owners shaping the region's largest programs, and now scaling to the global construction industry — the world's largest.

We build in direct partnership with our clients. Our first Packs — Compliance, Schedule Intelligence, and Cost Estimation — are being co-built with a leading UAE master developer against real project data. Getting the domain right is everything: a compliance check, a schedule rebaseline, or a BOQ that is subtly wrong is worse than no tool at all.

The role

We're hiring a senior Construction Domain Expert / SME to be the practitioner voice at the center of how SuperHive gets built. You are someone who has spent a career inside construction and engineering — who knows how a design-standards review actually runs, how a P6 programme gets rebaselined after a material change, how a QS builds and benchmarks a BOQ — and you'll turn that judgment into product.

This is not a reviewer-on-the-side role. You sit between our product, engineering, and data teams and the reality of the work, defining what "correct" means for each workflow, pressure-testing what we build against how the industry truly operates, and accelerating us past the mistakes a team without deep domain expertise would make.

What you'll do

• Define ground truth for the Packs. Specify what good looks like for compliance review, schedule intelligence, and cost estimation — the inputs, the steps, the edge cases, the failure modes — so the agents reason the way a strong practitioner would.
• Encode domain expertise as skills. Work with the team to turn methodologies you carry in your head — UAE code interpretation, critical-path and delay analysis, elemental cost benchmarking — into the structured, loadable expertise that makes SuperHive domain-competent rather than a generic AI wrapper.
• Pressure-test outputs. Review what the agents produce against real project scenarios, find where they're wrong or shallow, and drive the corrections. You are the standard the product is held to.
• Embed in design partnerships. Sit alongside our clients' domain experts, speak their language, validate that what we're building maps to their actual workflows, and bring their reality back into the roadmap.
• Shape the roadmap. Tell us which workflows are worth automating, where the highest-volume and highest-cost pain sits, and what sequencing makes sense given how projects really run.
• Inform GTM credibility. Be a credible domain voice in front of developers, contractors, and consultants — in workshops, demos, and discovery.

What you bring

• 10+ years in construction or engineering, with real depth in at least one of: compliance & design-standards review, scheduling & planning (Primavera P6 / MSP), cost estimation & BOQ / quantity surveying, or BIM / model coordination. Breadth across more than one is a strong plus.
• Hands-on practitioner credibility. You've personally run the cycles — submitted designs for authority approval, baselined and reanalyzed programmes, produced and benchmarked estimates, coordinated models — not just managed people who did.
• Gulf / UAE experience. Direct exposure to UAE or wider GCC codes, authorities, developers, and delivery realities, or a clear ability to get there fast.
• Fluency with the tech stack. Working knowledge of the tools the industry runs on — ACC / BIM 360, Procore, Aconex, Primavera P6, Revit / IFC, QS / takeoff tools — and an honest view of where they help and where they fall short.
• A product instinct. You can articulate workflows precisely, reason about where they break, and distinguish a tool's limits from data fragmentation and process problems. You're energized by building something better, not defending the status quo.
• Clear communication. Equally comfortable deep in a model coordination review and explaining your reasoning to engineers building an agent who've never set foot on a site.

Nice to have

• Experience at a master developer, project owner, or major PMC on large Gulf programmes.
• Exposure to construction AI or point-solution tools — bought, piloted, or killed — and a view on why they did or didn't stick.
• Cross-domain perspective: you've felt the coordination cost when a single design change cascades across compliance, cost, and schedule.
• Arabic language; an active network across UAE / GCC construction.
• Hands-on with the latest AI tools — ChatGPT, Claude, and especially agentic tools like Claude Cowork — and a real sense of how they change the way work gets done.

How we work

• Hybrid, leaning on-site in the UAE. Regular time alongside the team and at client sites across the Gulf. Most of the team is co-located in the UAE.
• AI-native by default. Meetings are digitised, our knowledge and artifacts are organised agent-first, and Claude Cowork is part of how the team runs day to day. You'll work alongside AI agents as a normal part of the job — and help shape what they can do.
• Small, senior team. High autonomy, high stakes, no playbook. Your judgment directly shapes the product.
• Domain at the core. You won't be an advisor consulted occasionally; you'll be embedded with product and engineering, defining what correct means and holding the bar.