Outerport
Automate engineering science.
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
- Interest in manufacturing, engineering, EPC
About the interview
- Initial screening (background, past experiences, etc)
- Technical Challenge (interview)
- (In some cases) Follow-up technical challenge
- (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 annotate and digitize these drawings to run simulations, quote work, build automations, and investigate issues in factories. Unfortunately, LLMs and VLMs are still quite bad at analyzing these drawings.
Outerport is building a foundation model for turning technical engineering documents into structured data, alongside an interactive application platform on top of this to solve some of the most pressing issues for the world's biggest enterprise companies. 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 learning about the latest LLM and VLM papers.
