Research Engineer: From Render to Real Product

Doist; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 250,000 - 450,000; Full time

Job summary

Vizcom in San Francisco is seeking a Research Engineer to bridge the gap between pixels and atoms in design-to-manufacturing workflows. You will own the visualization-to-actualization chain, deciding which links to attack first and how representations translate into factory-ready data.

You will work with a small team, including a preference-data engineer and post-training engineers, to move from sketch to CAD handoff, ensuring manufacturability, tolerances, and real-world materials are captured

Responsibilities

• The map of the chain: from render to real, which links are attackable now and which are bets for later.
• Form: generated 3D to editable, manufacturable geometry.
• Parametric surfaces, curve extraction, CAD handoff.
• Material and color: rendered appearance to real‑world specification.
• A finish that exists, a color that survives daylight, a textile with a name.
• Softgoods: pattern flattening, seam logic, knit.
• The half of the world that gets sewn instead of molded.
• Manufacturability in the loop: manifoldness, tolerances, wall thickness, drape and fit as properties of generation, not a repair pass after it.
• The output layer: the artifacts downstream teams actually consume (CAD files, pattern pieces, tech packs) and the eval bar for factory‑acceptable, defined per vertical.
• Customer pilots and the flywheel bridge: real weekly asks as your test cases, and with the preference and post-training roles, turning constraints and judgment into signals models learn from.

Job description

Vizcom in San Francisco is seeking a Research Engineer to bridge the gap between pixels and atoms in design-to-manufacturing workflows. You will own the visualization-to-actualization chain, deciding which links to attack first and how representations translate into factory-ready data.

You will work with a small team, including a preference-data engineer and post-training engineers, to move from sketch to CAD handoff, ensuring manufacturability, tolerances, and real-world materials are captured