We are an MIT-born, venture-backed Silicon Valley startup building Engineering General Intelligence (EGI)—an AI Copilot for design and manufacturing. Our mission is to fundamentally reinvent how physical products are designed and built, dramatically accelerating the pace of product development.

As an Individual Contributor on the Data Studio team, you will play a key role in transforming raw customer data into structured, high-fidelity datasets that power model training, evaluation, and customer delivery. This role is deeply hands-on and sits at the intersection of product, research, and engineering. You will apply your mechanical engineering and manufacturing expertise to create data pipelines, labeling workflows, reference models, and quality checks that ensure the accuracy and reliability of our AI systems. Mechanical engineering or manufacturing design experience is essential; candidates without this background will not be considered.

Key Responsibilities

1. Data Creation, Processing & Quality
Ingest, clean, transform, and structure customer and internally generated engineering data for AI training and inference
Design and build high-quality mechanical components and assemblies in CAD to serve as authoritative ground truth for evaluating and training AI systems
Produce labeled datasets, reference designs, annotations, exploded views, sequences, and other engineering artifacts that encode real-world reasoning
Apply engineering judgment to define and assess output quality across datasets
Continuously refine standards for metadata, annotation, and model quality, maintaining a living “definition of quality” for ME datasets
2. Workflow & Tooling Contributions
Collaborate with Product Managers to shape tooling used for annotation, data correction, model-output review, and pipeline automation
Provide detailed feedback on tool usability, workflow efficiency, and automation opportunities
Help develop scalable, repeatable data processes that improve throughput and data consistency
3. Cross-Functional Collaboration
Partner closely with engineering and research teams to understand model data requirements, failure modes, and areas needing new data
Influence model behavior by supplying representative engineering examples and ground-truth mechanical designs
Partner with customer-facing teams to translate domain requirements, industry standards, and customer data schemas into actionable dataset specifications
Serve as a subject matter expert on mechanical engineering formats, CAD standards, manufacturing practices, and design artifacts
4. Domain Expertise & Reference Content Creation
Generate technical documentation, exploded views, sequences, and annotations that encode engineering reasoning into training data
Ensure that datasets reflect real-world constraints, DFM (Design for Manufacturing) considerations, material behavior, and industry best practices
Embed engineering reasoning into training data so that AI systems learn not just geometry or text, but engineering intent
5. Customer & Project Support
Work with customers to understand their data sources, schemas, formats, and quality expectations
Guide customers in preparing high-quality datasets, defining structured schemas, and improving data pipelines
Support delivery timelines by communicating progress clearly and surfacing risks or issues early
Review and work with external contractors, ensuring high-quality output and adherence to SOPs

Required Qualifications

Strong domain expertise in mechanical engineering, manufacturing design, or industrial workflows
Hands-on experience with CAD tools such as SolidWorks, CATIA, Siemens NX, or Creo
Familiarity with annotation tools and illustration software (e.g., Creo Illustrate, Adobe Illustrator, Arbortext)
Ability to interpret complex mechanical assemblies, technical drawings, GD&T, and engineering documentation
Experience creating artifacts like exploded views, work-step sequences, repair manuals, or manufacturing instructions
Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to translate domain workflows into structured data requirements
Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with data operations, labeling workflows, ML data pipelines, or AI/ML data lifecycle (collection -> labeling -> QA -> training -> evaluation -> deployment)
Experience in fast-paced startup or high-growth environments
Comfort with customer-facing discovery or solutioning

What Success Looks Like

Deliver high-quality datasets that measurably improve model performance
Drive standardization and reliability across ME datasets, CAD models, workflows, metadata, and annotations
Enable faster model training, evaluation, and deployment through strong cross-functional collaboration
Maintain clear documentation, repeatable processes, and continuous quality improvement
Be recognized as a trusted ME expert in data quality and domain insight

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

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