Founding Computer Vision Engineer: Edge ML & VLMs

MaxIT Consulting - Max Corporate Group; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

MaxIT Consulting - Max Corporate Group in the San Francisco Bay Area is seeking a Founding Computer Vision Engineer - Multimodal AI & VLMs to join an early-stage technology company building AI systems for real-world industrial environments. This role focuses on multimodal visual intelligence running in hardware-constrained environments and supporting complex physical workflows.

You will own critical parts of the AI layer, building and deploying vision-language systems that reason over images and

Qualifications

• 1–5 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 prototypes.
• Comfort operating in real-time, edge, hardware-constrained, or connectivity-constrained environments.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and technical ownership.

Responsibilities

• Build and deploy agentic vision-language systems for real-world industrial workflows.
• Develop multimodal reasoning capabilities across images and video.
• Work with detection, segmentation, visual reasoning, VLMs, and related applied computer vision techniques.
• Own model orchestration and production deployment across hardware-constrained environments.
• Design and maintain evaluation systems including ground-truth datasets, trajectory evaluation, and regression testing.
• Iterate on production models based on real-world usage and measurable system performance.

Skills

Shipping CV/vision systems

Edge computing

Production ownership

Software fundamentals

Real-time systems

Multimodal AI

Job description

MaxIT Consulting - Max Corporate Group in the San Francisco Bay Area is seeking a Founding Computer Vision Engineer - Multimodal AI & VLMs to join an early-stage technology company building AI systems for real-world industrial environments. This role focuses on multimodal visual intelligence running in hardware-constrained environments and supporting complex physical workflows.

You will own critical parts of the AI layer, building and deploying vision-language systems that reason over images and