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Adam

Forward Deployed Mechanical Engineer

Salary$200k – $250k
LocationSan Francisco, CA
Work modeon-site
Typefull-time
SeniorityMid
Experience3+ yrs
DepartmentEngineering
EquityIncluded
Company size4+ people
First seenOct 4, 2026 · 1w ago
Verified live11h ago
At a glanceSummarised by Seekless from the posting.
Must have1
3+ years of experience
Eligibility1
US citizen/visa only
Adam · W25
Forward Deployed Mechanical Engineer
About the company
AI Powered CAD
LocationSan Francisco, CA, US
TypeFull-time
Salary$200K - $250K
Equity1.00% - 2.00%
Requirements
Experience3+ years
VisaUS citizen/visa only
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About the role
You are the person who walks into an engineering firm or a factory and makes Adam real. You install it in their CAD environment, sit with their engineers, take their actual backlog, and don’t leave until Adam is doing production work for them. Forward deployed means forward deployed: you work from the customer’s office and shop floor more than from ours.
This is not a support role and not a sales role, though you’ll do parts of both. It’s closer to being a field engineer for a new kind of machine. You own the deployment end to end: the IT conversation, the install, the first week of real tasks, the moment the team’s skeptical senior engineer sees Adam finish something they expected to babysit.
You’ll also be our highest-bandwidth product channel. What blocks you on-site becomes the roadmap. You’ll file the bugs, write up the gaps, and work directly with the founders to close them, sometimes within days.
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About Adam
Adam is an applied research and product lab building the future of computer-aided design, where engineers will be able to speak physical objects into existence. With Adam, you’ll use AI to complete design tasks end-to-end. For example, select a face and say, “Add mounting holes matching the bolt pattern from the other part, with identical diameters, spacing, and offsets,” and Adam handles the geometry, selects standard hardware, and outputs production-ready CAD.
We just wrapped up YC’s W25 batch, built a state-of-the-art text-to-CAD interface, and had one of the most viral YC launches of all time.
Our first product made CAD approachable and fun with AI, bringing tens of thousands of people into 3D printing. Now we’re enhancing the capabilities of engineers to create feature-rich models compatible with industry-standard software.
We’re a small technical team of engineers, designers, and researchers who love CAD and building things. Our founders are UC Berkeley alumni, second-time founders, and early employees at major AI startups.
We’re in-person at the Adam House in the SF Marina, powered by green tea, lots of natural light, and a wall of 3D printers.
If you’re excited about shipping fast and shaping the future of how things are made, come join us.
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