Founding Software Engineer ($160k-$220k + Equity) at Alcor Labs

Job Description

Design and scale real-time video and audio streaming pipelines connecting wearable hardware to cloud-based VLM inference engines. Build production-grade full-stack APIs and observability frameworks for industrial deployments in aerospace and defense.

Requirements: A full-stack generalist or AI/CV expert with less than 7 years of experience and a proven track record of productionizing software. Must be willing to work in-person 6 days a week in San Francisco.

Key Skills: Real-time Video Streaming, Audio Pipelines, Vision-Language Models, Full-stack API Development, Mobile Integration, On-prem Deployment, Observability Frameworks, Applied AI, Visual Perception, Agentic Reasoning Loops, Edge-relay Infrastructure, Cloud Infrastructure

Benefits: Equity, Founding-team equity grant of up to 2%