Structural Steel Estimator

Structural Steel Estimator

The Takeoff AI (thetakeoff.ai) | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

We build AI-powered takeoff software for industrial contractors. Our first product handles piping and P&ID takeoff. Structural steel is next, starting with pipe racks and expanding into platforms, access structures, and equipment foundations.

We're hiring a structural steel estimator to help us build it right.

What you'd be doing

You'll estimate real structural steel scope, validate AI-generated quantities against your own manual takeoffs, and tell our engineering team where the software misses. You'll work from actual bid packages, GA drawings, steel details, and connection schedules, not hypotheticals.

You'll also join customer demos and pilot projects, walking contractors through our output and translating between what the software produces and what an estimator needs to price a job.

What we're looking for

• 3+ years estimating structural steel for industrial projects (petrochemical, refinery, power, or heavy industrial preferred)
• Comfortable reading general arrangement drawings, steel framing plans, connection details, and anchor bolt layouts
• Experience with quantity takeoff for wide flange, HSS, plate, grating, handrail, and miscellaneous metals
• Familiar with how steel tonnage gets priced: fabrication rates, erection labor, bolting vs. welding differences, coatings
• Willingness to sit with software engineers and explain your process, your shortcuts, and where your judgment fills gaps that drawings don't cover

Nice to have

• Experience estimating pipe rack structures specifically (our first structural module starts there)
• Familiarity with Bluebeam, PlanSwift, or similar digital takeoff tools
• Background in both piping and structural estimation (common at mid-market industrial contractors where one estimator handles both)
• AISC, ASPE, or equivalent certification

What we offer

• Early-stage equity opportunity
• A product team that builds from estimator input, not assumptions
• The chance to define how AI handles structural steel takeoff before anyone else does