AI/ML Applied Research Engineer

Location: San Mateo, CA (In-Person, Bay Area) About Primepoint 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. Founders: Founded Facebook’s first Computer Vision team Helped build Facebook AI Research Built and sold a neural video compression startup to Apple Team: ~$10M seed Paying customers The Role We are hiring an Applied ML / Computer Vision Research Engineer with a strong academic background and product mindset. You will: 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 This is applied research. Everything must impact customers. What We’re Looking For Must-Have 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 Ideal, but not required Document understanding / diagram analysis Vision-language / multimodal experience Knowledge graphs / structured reasoning Production ML experience