Founding Engineer at camfer

We're an applied research lab working towards a future where engineers can use natural language to do CAD tasks end-to-end. With high-level commands like "Hey Camfer, design a gearbox w/ a 3:1 ratio for this motor!", our agents will autonomously design the system, source off-the-shelf parts, and create drawings to be sent off for manufacturing (like Jarvis for Ironman). Last fall, we won both Y Combinator's internal demo day and OpenAI's o1 hackathon! Here's a clip of Sam Altman talking about Camfer.

Our first step is creating a tool that allows engineers to use text, images, and mechanical drawings to generate feature-rich CAD models directly in SolidWorks and Onshape. We've got a few pilot users at companies like Physical Intelligence using our v0.

We're a small, young team of software devs and researchers who have a love for CAD and design. Our founders are FRC world champions, UC Berkeley alumni / researchers, ex-AWS, and ex-Meta.

We finished YC in October and raised a $4.8M seed round. Our investors include Y Combinator, Next47, Bloomberg Beta, Octave Fund, and the founders of Dropbox, Airtable and Clari.

We're in-person in SF. We have an espresso machine, meals provided every day, a fully stocked fridge, and lots of natural light!

At Camfer, our engineers are rethinking how people will interact with CAD tools and actively building out that future.

Based on one’s interests and the current needs of the team, engineers build products, systems, models, and improve UX. This could manifest in creating new AI-native UX’s, pushing our current systems to be faster / more performant, building new representations of 3D space, and coming up with new moonshot ideas for how Camfer can grow.

We are looking for people who:

• Are generalists who have worked with a broad range of programming languages and systems
• Have the ability to adapt quickly and are always learning
• Are flexible and willing to jump on whatever is needed to improve our product (there is no “not my job”) At Camfer, you will be given the autonomy to do some of the best work of your life.

If there appears to be a fit, we'll reach to schedule personal / technical interviews. Our final step is coming to our office for a work trial (paid), where you’ll work with us for a block of time and dive deep with the team.