Outerport
ActiveHiringAI Electromechanical Process Engineers for Heavy Industries
About
Building out new LNG plants, HVAC systems, or semiconductor processes rely on hundreds of iterations of feasibility testing (through simulation or real-world lab tests) where different designs (combinations of equipment) and parameters are validated. The parameters are often locked in PDFs (datasheets, wiring diagrams, PFDs/P&IDs) which take thousands of hours to convert into CSVs / JSONs, and the simulators don't have an easy API to work with. Outerport bridges the gap by finding documents from PLMs, extracting structured data from drawings, building a knowledge graph over them, and building autonomous AI agents that can fully automate this R&D process by running simulations and performing design checks.
Founders
Towaki Takikawa· Co-Founder / CEOEx-Research Scientist at NVIDIA, working on R&D for simulation (neural fields, 3D computer vision, 3D generative models). Previously worked in robotics (systems engineering / electro-mechanical design) and manufacturing (operating various CNC machines 😎).
Change history · 3 recorded
- July 5, 2026
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- June 17, 2026
- Pitch updated07:00 PM