Founding Research Engineer
Founding Research Engineer at Adam — San Francisco, CA, US
- Company: Adam
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Employment type: FULL_TIME
- Salary: USD 160000–250000 / year
- Posted: 2026-07-17
About this role
We’re building the founding research team at Adam.
At Adam, we’re tackling a frontier problem: training AI models to intelligently interpret and edit parametric CAD in 3D space. This demands creativity, deep technical ability, and novel thinking.
As part of the founding research team, you may:
Train models that generate CAD from natural language
Build effective vector representations of CAD features
Design evals to measure geometric accuracy in 3D space
Optimize inference for faster CAD edits
Create RL environments to teach long-horizon agents to perform design tasks end-to-end
We are looking for people who:
Are excited to explore and push the boundaries of LLMs, especially in the domain of 3D and CAD generation
Have trained and served state-of-the-art models.
Can own the full AI stack, from data collection to model training, evaluation, and inference
Have a track record of original contributions in ML (first-author papers, open-source projects, or shipped systems)
Operate with high agency and own problems end-to-end
At Adam, you will be given the autonomy to do some of the best work of your life and redefine how the physical world is built.