# Founding Research Engineer at Adam

- Company: Adam (YC W25)
- What the company does: AI Powered CAD. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://adam.new/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $160K to $250K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2025-08-25
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/adam/jobs/olALosA-founding-research-engineer
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/adam-founding-research-engineer/

## About the role

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.

## What they're looking for

- 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

Tags: Engineering