Founding Engineer

Palo Alto +1 · On-site$150k – $200k + EquityNo Visa Sponsorship

About this role

We're looking for a hungry, AI-pilled Founding engineer with 0–3 years of experience who has shipped agentic AI or multimodal systems to real users. You should be comfortable operating as a scrappy generalist across the full stack in a founding-stage environment, with a strong lean toward backend and AI engineering. Bonus points if you have computer vision experience, a founder background, or exposure to industrial/wearable domains.

What you'll do:

Build and own the full-stack product around Alcor's agentic-VLM core — DB, storage, backend APIs, and app — taking it from prototype to production in enterprise customers' hands

Integrate the multi-step, tool-using visual-reasoning loop into real industrial customer workflows (datacenter SOPs, inspections, field service)

Co-own the eval harness and data flywheel with the AI engineer — designing evals with limited data, capturing failure modes, and driving measurable model quality improvements each release

Build internal company tooling — automating workflows with AI coworkers, native AI-driven company context, build-vs-buy decisions

Contribute to GTM strategy — help select next-best clients across datacenter, aerospace, and energy verticals

Help recruit and onboard the next engineers as the team scales

Company at a glance

Alcor is a technology company that builds wearable AI for field technicians, providing real-time guidance and on-device decision support. Its scalable deployments in data centers and energy infrastructure underscore reliability and enterprise focus.

IndustryAI/ML
WorkspaceOn-site
Locations
Palo Alto, CA, USA ·San Francisco, CA, USA

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