You will lead the development of end-to-end multimodal agentic AI pipelines for a novel physical device. This role involves architecting the full interaction loop—from camera-based scene understanding to cloud reasoning and action. You will bridge the gap between computer vision and large language models to create a seamless user experience on hardware.
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AI Engineer at Alcor Labs
Are you tired of building chatbots? Join a high-growth Bay Area startup where you’ll build the 'brain' for a physical device. We are looking for an AI Engineer to own the end-to-end multimodal loop, from camera-based scene understanding to agentic reasoning and action. If you have experience shipping AI products in a startup environment and want to define how humans interact with hardware through vision and language, this is the role for you.
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Location
San Francisco, United States
Compensation
Not Disclosed
Company
Alcor Labs
Role overview
Vision AI, Wearable AI, field services, Robotics2–10+ employees
Building the AI co-pilot for manual workers starting with datacenter and energy infrastructure technicians. We give technicians smart-glasses with custom VLMs that automates hours of daily reporting, and can guide any user through any task. Already live with two multi-billion dollar companies.
Founders are: Elior - Harvard/NASA researcher in computer vision and physical AI (NeurIPS, ICCV) Gabriel - MIT Machine Learning, quant researcher in deep learning, quit to found Alcor.
What you will do
- Design and implement end-to-end AI pipelines that process camera data to perform complex scene understanding and reasoning.
- Build the full interaction loop connecting hardware sensors to cloud-based LLMs and translating outputs into device actions.
- Optimize multimodal model performance for latency and accuracy to ensure real-time responsiveness on an edge-tethered device.
Who this is a fit for
- Proven experience building and shipping multimodal AI features or agentic loops within a fast-moving startup environment.
- Strong background in camera-based scene understanding, computer vision, and integrating large language models for reasoning.
- Deep technical expertise in Python and modern AI frameworks, with a track record of deploying models to production devices.
Why this role is remarkable
- Work at the cutting edge of AI hardware, moving beyond pure software to build intelligence that interacts with the physical world.
- Join a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment where your code directly dictates the capabilities of a shipped physical product.
- Drive the architectural decisions for multimodal reasoning, integrating vision and language models into a cohesive, agentic system.
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