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Founding Research Engineer - AI & Computer Vision

alexander chapman • San Francisco Bay Area
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Own the AI core for a seed-stage startup building AI co-pilots on smart glasses, focusing on vision-language models and visual reasoning. Develop and deploy production-ready systems for detection, segmentation, and agent orchestration on real hardware. Requires 1-5 years of applied AI/ML experience with a focus on shipping computer vision or VLM systems to production.

Key Highlights
Founding engineer role at a seed-stage startup
Focus on visual AI: detection, segmentation, and reasoning over images/video
Up to $240,000 base salary with equity and visa sponsorship
Key Responsibilities
Own the AI core including vision-language models, visual reasoning, agents, evals, and model orchestration
Develop visual AI systems for detection, segmentation, and reasoning over images and video
Ensure AI systems run on real hardware in real customer workflows such as inspection and field service
Technical Skills Required
Computer Vision Vision-Language Models Model Orchestration
Benefits & Perks
Up to $240,000 base salary
Equity
Visa sponsorship
Nice to Have
Edge or on-device inference
Self-hosted open-weight models (vLLM, fine-tuning, quantization)
RAG
AR/wearables or autonomous driving CV
Industrial exposure

Job Description

I’m hiring a Founding Research Engineer for a seed-stage startup building AI co-pilots on smart glasses.

You’ll own the AI core: vision-language models, visual reasoning, agents, evals and model orchestration, all running on real hardware in real customer workflows like inspection and field service. The focus is visual AI first: detection, segmentation, and reasoning over images and video.

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