# MTS - Founding Research Engineer

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: 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. Talk to Zach (CEO) Coding Challenge Talk to Dylan (Founding Engineer) Onsite paid work trial

- **Id**: 143843
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/adam-founding-research-engineer>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-08-28T04:44:59Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-22
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T04:28:22Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 74
- **Description format**: text
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- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: AI Agents, AI Development Tools

## Company

- **Id**: 43176
- **Name**: Adam
- **Domain**: adam.new
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/adam-new>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Work at a Startup

## Salary

- **Min**: 200000
- **Max**: 300000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 300000

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 74

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-08-28T04:44:59Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 13
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.467
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 73
- **Expected fill days**: 26
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 300000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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