Outerport
Turn diagrams, technical documents, and CAD into structured data
Member of Technical Staff, Computer Vision / Graphics
About the role
We’re looking for candidates with an interest or knack in solving visual computing problems (computer vision, graphics, CAD, rotating a shape). If enjoy writing code for things you can see, also in a fast paced environment, you’re likely a fit for this role.
As part of our founding visual computing team you may:
- Write novel geometric algorithms to process vector graphics / images
- Develop interactive tools to process images / vector graphics
- Collect data, annotate, and train computer vision models / VLMs
- Write beautiful visualization code for both debugging and for interactive interfaces
Qualifications (none of these are hard requirements)
- Industry experience or projects working on hard problems in computer vision, graphics, or machine learning (with Python / PyTorch)
- Being scrappy (getting things done, over theoretical soundness)
- Publication record in venues like CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICCP, ICIP, TPAMI, SIGGRAPH
- Good visual taste / an appreciation for aesthetics
- A reputation for having an “engineering mindset”
- Strong communication skills
- Experience working on CAD, vector graphics
About the interview
- Talk to Towaki (CEO)
- Technical Challenge with Allen (CTO)
- (In some cases) Follow-up technical challenge with Towaki (CEO) or another team member
- (In some cases) Onsite work trial
About Outerport
The engineering world (manufacturing, construction, industrials) relies heavily on 2-dimensional PDF and CAD drawings as a way to communicate between companies. Engineers spend hundreds of hours to count and measure things on drawings to estimate costs and quote work- resulting in missed revenue and cost overruns. Unfortunately, LLMs and VLMs are still quite bad at analyzing these drawings.
Outerport is building a foundation model and platform for turning technical engineering documents into structured data to solve this problem. Our mission is to convert every technical document into a knowledge graph that can then be queried to help tasks like quoting or used as a knowledge base for Q&A. We also build interactive interfaces for engineers to quickly validate the analyses from the AI models. Outerport is already used at Fortune 500 enterprise companies in manufacturing & industrials.
Our team consists of experts in computer vision, computer graphics, systems software, and AI from NVIDIA, LinkedIn, Meta, Embark Trucks, Tulip Interfaces, and more. With backing from Y Combinator and top-tier venture capital firms and angels, we're looking to expand our team to accelerate product development.
We work in-person in SF, and we're a team that enjoy playing sports together and debating about the latest LLM and VLM papers.
