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Aurorin CAD

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1+ employees

Claude code for Mechanical Engineers

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About the Company

Aurorin exists so that a handful of great engineers can build what once took thousands.

Every generation of tools shrinks the team size needed to build physical objects. Governments needed thousands of people to make a rocket; SpaceX built one with under 200 people. That same compression, fewer people for bigger things, is waiting to happen for every category of hardware humanity uses: cars, aircraft, computers, fusion reactors, wind turbines, humanoid and surgical robots, pacemakers, prosthetics, microscopes, satellites, and even the washing machines and refrigerators in every home. Every one of these starts in CAD.

CAD software has barely changed in 45 years. The tools the world's best hardware engineers use every day were designed before the internet, long before modern GPUs, and long before anyone believed a twenty-person team could ship a car.

You cannot build the future we want on top of software from the 1980s. So we are rebuilding the entire CAD stack from scratch, starting with a new CAD kernel, designed to be extremely fast and AI native. This is the only way to let ten people build a rocket.

Aurorin is the CAD that lets a few great engineers do what used to take armies, so more of what humanity needs actually gets built, and gets built faster.

If this is something you want to spend your life building, come build it with us.

Tech Stack

Aurorin has built a brand new CAD software stack from the ground up starting with the CAD kernel. All major CAD tools use kernels made in the 1980s. Our entire software stack is written in swift. The UIs are made with native platform UI frameworks both on Mac and Windows.

The challenges we face include:

  • Creating and optimizing complex geometry algorithms for the CAD kernel
  • Transforming traditional single threaded CPU geometry algorithms into multithreaded CPU or GPU algorithms
  • Building CAD software on top of our kernel that is much better and easier to use than traditional CAD.
  • Building a highly capable and accurate agentic harness on top of our CAD kernel and software

Founders

Michael Baron
Michael Baron

Founder of Aurorin, 3x SpaceX intern, prev Apple Intern. Before starting Aurorin, Michael worked on Raptor combustion simulation, Dragon Guidance, Navigation & Control, and Starshield flight software at SpaceX, as well as GPU driver performance at Apple.

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