Join as the first engineering hire building AI co-pilots for manual workers in energy and datacenter infrastructure. You will develop custom vision-language models for smart glasses that automate reporting and provide real-time guidance. Work alongside technical founders to ship agentic systems already deployed at multiple multi-billion dollar companies.
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Founding Engineer at Alcor Labs
Are you a vision AI specialist at Meta Reality Labs or a top-tier research lab looking for more impact? Join a revenue-generating startup founded by Harvard and MIT alumni as their first engineer. You’ll build custom VLMs and agentic systems for smart glasses, directly empowering the 80% of manual workers left behind by the AI boom. With multi-billion dollar clients already live, this is a unique chance to own a massive piece of the next frontier in embodied AI while working in the heart of Palo Alto.
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Location
Palo Alto, 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 custom vision-language models (VLMs) optimized for real-time scene understanding on AR smart glasses.
- Build agentic vision systems that autonomously generate technical reports and surface institutional knowledge for field technicians.
- Deploy production-ready ML models to Fortune 500 environments, iterating rapidly based on direct feedback from users in the energy and infrastructure sectors.
Who this is a fit for
- Early-career high-achiever with deep experience in vision AI, including VLMs, Gaussian Splatting, NeRFs, or embodied AI research.
- Background in AR or wearables, ideally having worked on vision systems at Meta Reality Labs or a similar high-performance research environment.
- Strong builder mindset with less than 7 years of experience, a degree from a top-tier university, and the drive to thrive in an early-stage startup.
Why this role is remarkable
- Rare opportunity to join as a founding engineer with significant equity in a company already generating revenue from multi-billion dollar enterprise clients.
- Work directly with technical founders from Harvard, NASA, and MIT who have published top-tier AI research at NeurIPS and ICCV.
- Solve complex, physical-world problems by bringing cutting-edge embodied AI and VLMs to the 80% of the workforce currently overlooked by the AI revolution.
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