As the first engineering hire, you will build the AI co-pilot for skilled manual workers using smart glasses. You will own the real-time video/audio pipelines and agentic reasoning loops that guide technicians in the field. This is a high-intensity role bridging computer vision, edge deployment, and full-stack product engineering.
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Founding Software Engineer at Alcor Labs
Join an elite team as the first engineering hire at a $5M seed-stage startup building AI-powered smart glasses for the industrial workforce. Backed by A* and industry veterans from SpaceX, this company is already generating revenue through pilots with multi-billion dollar enterprises like Equans. You will have a massive impact, owning the computer vision pipelines and agentic reasoning loops that guide manual workers in real-time. If you are a high-agency builder with deep full-stack muscle and a passion for physical AI, this is your chance to secure a founding seat and shape the future of industrial intelligence in San Francisco.
About this role
Role overview
About the company
Alcor Labs
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'll do
What you will do
- Architect and scale real-time video and audio pipelines from smart glasses through mobile edge relays to cloud-based vision-language models.
- Build and productionize agentic co-pilot loops that allow VLMs to reason over live streams and provide real-time guidance to workers.
- Design and implement data pipelines handling hundreds of GB/day of video data into tiered archival storage for model training and observability.
Who you are
Who this is a fit for
- A full-stack software engineer or AI craftsperson with a track record of shipping production-grade products from 0-to-1 in intense startup environments.
- Hands-on experience with applied AI, specifically multimodal models (VLMs), real-time computer vision, or production-scale perception systems.
- Proficiency across the modern stack, including Python, TypeScript/React, and experience deploying containerized services to edge or on-prem environments.
Why this role
Why this role is remarkable
- Significant founding equity and end-to-end ownership of a product category with two live enterprise pilots already generating $300+/seat/month.
- Backed by A* (Vikram Ramakrishnan + Gautam Gupta) and Harry O'Hanley (CEO Long Wall, ex-SpaceX), focusing on a massive market at the intersection of wearables and physical AI.
- Unique opportunity to build a data moat of egocentric video that will power the next generation of robotics foundation models for industrial infrastructure.
Jack & Jill
How Jack & Jill work together
I get to know what you’re great at, then find roles you’d never find yourself.Ok, I'll go first. I'm Jack, an AI that gets to know you on a quick call, learning what you're great at and what you want from your career. Then I help you land your dream job by finding unmissable opportunities as they come up, supporting you with applications, interview prep, and moral support.
I recruit from Jack’s network and make the intro when I spot a great match.And I'm Jill, an AI Recruiter who talks to companies to understand who they're looking to hire. Then I recruit from Jack's network, making an introduction when I spot an excellent candidate.
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How does this work?
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