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Founding Hardware Engineer, Smart Glasses and Computer Vision

Onsite or remote • New York City+1🌐 Remote💼 Full-time🗓 2026-06-24

Core

Building a smart glasses and wearable camera system for in-store SKU recognition, inventory checks, and planogram compliance validation.

Role type

Founding hardware engineer (wearable/embedded systems)

Builds

Smart glasses prototype with computer vision pipeline for shelf and product detection

Domain

Consumer electronics / Computer Vision / Retail field sales

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Wearable hardware design, Embedded systems, Computer vision pipeline development, Prototyping, Hardware testing, Cross-functional hardware/software integration

Preferred skills

LLM frameworks, RAG technologies, Embedding models, Vector databases

Responsibilities

Prototype smart glasses and wearable camera system, Evaluate off-the-shelf vs custom hardware, Develop computer vision pipeline for shelf/product detection, Partner with pilot customers to validate use case, Shape product line from first prototype

Seniority

Founding, 0 to 1 product ownership

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