AI Engineer/Product Engineer Freelance

Job description

Location: Paris (on-site) Contract: Freelance: Duration: 3 months · 4 days/week Start: ASAP: Languages: French and English (fluent in both) About Colonies: Colonies is on a mission to solve housing. We build and manage flexible living spaces across Europe. The tech team is small and high-leverage. We run a hub-and-spoke model: a Core Tech team maintains the platform, while embedded engineers position themselves in business teams to solve problems close to the source. What works gets hardened and scaled. What doesn’t gets killed quickly. The job: You will build AI-powered automation for operational workflows that are currently manual and slow. The first mission is inventory processing: tenants move out, inventories are completed (photos, comments, documents), and today a human reviews every one to assess damage, estimate costs, and decide what to deduct from the deposit. You will automate that end-to-end. Concretely, expect to: Ingest inventory documents — photos, written comments, structured reports — and extract structured damage assessments using vision and language models Compare move-out inventories against move-in inventories to identify new damage and attribute responsibility...