AI/ML Applied Research Engineer

primepoint • San Mateo, CA

158d • Onsite

About The Position

Primepoint is building construction intelligence for the physical world. We transform massive, static construction datasets into an interactive AI system that surfaces conflicts and reduces risk on $100M–$3B+ building projects. We go beyond LLM wrappers and focus on multimodal reasoning across diagrams, text, and structured data. The role is for an Applied ML / Computer Vision Research Engineer with a strong academic background and product mindset. This is applied research where everything must impact customers. The founders have a strong background, having founded Facebook’s first Computer Vision team, helped build Facebook AI Research, and built and sold a neural video compression startup to Apple. The company has secured approximately $10M in seed funding and has paying customers.

Requirements

• PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Vision, or related field
• Publications in top-tier venues (CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICML preferred)
• Applied orientation (not purely theoretical)
• Strong engineering capability
• Based in Bay Area, in-person

Nice To Haves

• Document understanding / diagram analysis
• Vision-language / multimodal experience
• Knowledge graphs / structured reasoning
• Production ML experience

Responsibilities

• Develop models for understanding technical drawings and specifications
• Work on multimodal reasoning across diagrams, text, and structured data
• Translate research into production systems within ~1 year horizons
• Present prior research and apply it to real-world constraints
• Collaborate closely with founders

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree