San Francisco | 5 Days Onsite
Location: Onsite in San Francisco
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Equity
Geophysics + Seismic ResearcherAbout the RoleAs a CAD Automation Researcher you'll be in the arena from day one, building the future of AI for physics simulation with your own hands. This is your chance to take everything you've learned about CAD geometry, mesh generation, and design optimization and use it to build foundation AI models that remove the single biggest bottleneck in engineering simulation today: turning messy, real world CAD into something a computer can actually reason about.
You'll work directly with the CEO and founding team to shape our product around the real pain points you've faced in your career: the hours lost repairing broken CAD files, the manual de-featuring before a single simulation can even run, and the trial and error of hand tuned topology optimization. You'll build the models that make that friction disappear.
What You'll Do- Develop methods to automatically repair, defeature, and simplify raw CAD geometry into simulation ready form, removing today's largest manual bottleneck in our design pipeline.
- Develop general purpose optimization techniques, including topology optimization, shape optimization, and differentiable design search, that operate directly on learned geometry representations and AI physics model outputs .
- Design and train models, such as implicit neural representations, graph neural networks, and diffusion models, for geometry generation and reconstruction from imperfect, incomplete, or multi format CAD inputs (STEP, IGES, mesh, point cloud) or embeddings.
- Own your workflow end to end: synthetic geometry data generation, training, evaluation, and deployment into UniversalAGI's production simulation pipeline.
- Collaborate directly with the CEO, founding team, and our physics research group to make sure geometry and optimization models integrate cleanly with the rest of the foundation model stack.
- Help define UniversalAGI's technical point of view on AI driven geometry generation and design optimization, and publish results internally and, where appropriate, externally.
Qualifications- PhD in Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Computational Geometry, or a related field, or equivalent hands on industry research experience.
- 2+ years building deep learning models for geometry processing, computer graphics, computational geometry, or 3D generative modeling.
- Deep, hands on understanding of CAD representations and geometry processing: boundary representations (B-rep), CAD kernels such as OpenCASCADE or Parasolid, mesh generation, and defeaturing or healing techniques.
- Proven research track record applying modern architectures, such as graph neural networks, implicit neural representations, transformers, or diffusion models, to 3D geometry or physical design problems.
- Practical experience with optimization methods relevant to physical design, such as topology optimization, shape optimization, or differentiable and gradient based design search.
- Expert Python and deep learning framework proficiency (PyTorch or JAX), with the ability to build and train models from scratch rather than only fine tune existing ones.
- High execution velocity and comfort operating with significant ownership in a fast moving startup environment.
Bonus Qualifications- Published research in top tier venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, SIGGRAPH, or CVPR.
- Experience building on or extending commercial CAD kernels or CAD or CAM software internals.
- Familiarity with reinforcement learning or large language model based approaches to design or geometry automation.
- Domain expertise in aerospace, automotive, or industrial manufacturing design workflows.
- Open source contributions to geometry processing, CAD, or 3D deep learning libraries.
- Experience at a high growth AI or engineering software startup.
Cultural Fit- Technical Respect: Ability to earn respect through hands-on technical contribution
- Intensity: Thrives in our unusually intense culture - willing to grind when needed
- Customer Obsession: Passionate about solving real customer problems, not just cool tech
- Deep Work: Values long, uninterrupted periods of focused work over meetings
- High Availability: Ready to be deeply involved whenever critical issues arise
- Communication: Can translate complex technical concepts to customers and team
- Growth Mindset: Embraces the compounding returns of intelligence and continuous learning
- Startup Mindset: Comfortable with ambiguity, rapid change, and wearing multiple hats
- Work Ethic: Willing to put in the extra hours when needed to hit critical milestones
- Team Player: Collaborative approach with low ego and high accountability
What We Offer- Opportunity to shape the technical foundation of a rapidly growing foundational AI company.
- Work on cutting-edge industrial AI problems in energy and subsurface characterization with immediate real-world impact.
- Direct collaboration with the founder & CEO and ability to influence company strategy
- Competitive compensation with significant equity upside.
- In-person first culture - 5 days a week in office with a team that values face-to-face collaboration.
- Access to world-class investors and advisors in the AI space.
BenefitsWe provide great benefits, including:
- Competitive compensation and equity.
- Competitive health, dental, vision benefits paid by the company.
- 401(k) plan offering.
- Flexible vacation.
- Team Building & Fun Activities.
- Great scope, ownership and impact.
- AI tools stipend.
- Monthly commute stipend.
- Monthly wellness / fitness stipend.
- Daily office lunch & dinner covered by the company.
- Immigration support.
