Founding AI Engineer – Computer Vision & Multimodal Models

MaxIT Consulting
San Francisco, CA
Job Description
Role Overview

We are seeking an Founding Computer Vision Engineer – Multimodal AI & VLMs to join an early-stage technology company building AI systems for real-world industrial environments.

What You Will Do

Build and deploy agentic vision-language systems for real-world industrial workflows, develop multimodal reasoning capabilities across images and video, and own model orchestration and production deployment across hardware-constrained environments.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The strongest candidates are practical builders who have shipped real systems with real users, with experience in robotics, autonomous systems, drones, wearables, real-time video, edge computing, or adjacent physical-world AI domains.

Requirements

  • Approximately 1 to 5 years of relevant professional experience
  • Hands-on experience shipping computer vision, multimodal, or vision-language systems to production
  • Strong practical understanding of visual AI applied to images and/or video
  • Experience owning technical systems end to end rather than working exclusively on research prototypes
  • Comfort operating in real-time, edge, hardware-constrained, or connectivity-constrained environments
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and a high level of technical ownership
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