AI Engineer at Bay Area AI hardware startup

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Job Title

AI Engineer

Salary

Not Disclosed

Company Description

Bay Area AI hardware startup building multimodal intelligence for physical devices

Job Description

You will lead the development of end-to-end multimodal agentic AI pipelines for a novel physical device. This role involves architecting the full interaction loop—from camera-based scene understanding to cloud reasoning and action. You will bridge the gap between computer vision and large language models to create a seamless user experience on hardware.

Location

San Francisco, USA

Why this role is remarkable

• Work at the cutting edge of AI hardware, moving beyond pure software to build intelligence that interacts with the physical world.
• Join a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment where your code directly dictates the capabilities of a shipped physical product.
• Drive the architectural decisions for multimodal reasoning, integrating vision and language models into a cohesive, agentic system.
  
  

What You Will Do

• Design and implement end-to-end AI pipelines that process camera data to perform complex scene understanding and reasoning.
• Build the full interaction loop connecting hardware sensors to cloud-based LLMs and translating outputs into device actions.
• Optimize multimodal model performance for latency and accuracy to ensure real-time responsiveness on an edge-tethered device.
  
  

The ideal candidate

• Proven experience building and shipping multimodal AI features or agentic loops within a fast-moving startup environment.
• Strong background in camera-based scene understanding, computer vision, and integrating large language models for reasoning.
• Deep technical expertise in Python and modern AI frameworks, with a track record of deploying models to production devices.
  
  

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