
Backflip AI provides AI tools that turn 3D scans, sketches, images, or prompts into production-ready CAD and mesh models to speed mechanical design. The platform uses generative AI and…

Backflip AI provides AI tools that turn 3D scans, sketches, images, or prompts into production-ready CAD and mesh models to speed mechanical design. The platform uses generative AI and…
What they do: Generative 3D AI that converts scans, images, sketches, or prompts into production-ready CAD and mesh models
Target users: Engineers, designers, and manufacturing teams (B2B)
Founded: 2022
Headcount (reported): ≈11 employees
Latest funding: $30M Series A (Dec 19, 2024) — co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and NEA
Mechanical design and manufacturing — converting unstructured 3D data and ideas into manufacturable CAD/mesh models.
2022
Information Technology
$30,000,000
Round included participation from angel/strategic investors
“Backed by prominent VC firms (a16z and NEA) and high-profile angel/strategic participants”
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About Backflip Mechanical design, the work done in CAD, is the rate-limiter for progress in the physical world. Despite decades of tooling, only a few million people can effectively design complex mechanical systems. But what if hundreds of millions could? What if creating something in the real world were as easy as imagining the use case, or sketching it on paper?
Backflip is building a foundation model for mechanical design. We are unifying the world’s scattered engineering knowledge into an intelligent software copilot. Makers and builders use our intuitive and effortless design environment to give them the superpower of expert mechanical design skills. Our goal is to enable anyone to imagine a solution and hit “print.”
Founded by a second-time CEO in the same space (first company: Markforged), Backflip combines deep industry insight with breakthrough AI research. Angel invested by Ashish Vaswani (coinventor of the transformer), and backed by a16z and NEA, we raised a $30M Series A and built a deeply technical, mission-driven team.
We’re building the AI foundation that tomorrow’s space elevators, nanobots, and spaceships will be built in. If you’re excited to define the next generation of hard tech, come build it with us.
The Role We’re looking for a Senior or Staff Frontend Software Engineer to help architect, build, and ship the interactive design environment that connects human creativity to cutting-edge AI. Your work will directly shape how designers, engineers, and creators interact with our mechanical engineering foundation model, turning advanced AI capabilities into real, usable tools.
Backflip is building a foundation model for mechanical design. But intelligence alone isn’t enough, the user experience must make complex 3D engineering feel intuitive, responsive, and powerful.
You will own the front-end systems that render, manipulate, and interact with 3D mechanical objects in the browser. You’ll be responsible for shipping the features that make advanced AI feel simple, responsive, and delightful. You’ll be a key voice in the engineering team as we define the next generation of tools to create our physical world.
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Why Backflip
This is a rare opportunity to help define how physical AI becomes a tool for the imagination. You can create the interfaces and experiences that puts the world’s collective mechanical design knowledge at anyone’s fingertips.
You’ll join a world-class, mission-driven team operating at the intersection of AI research, engineering, and deep product sense, building systems that let people design the physical world as easily as they imagine it.
Let’s build the tools the future will be made in.
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