About this opportunity

EQL Tech lists this Founding Full-Stack Engineer opportunity in burlingame, California. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.

Job description

Founding Full-Stack Engineer

On-site · Engineering, Product & Tech · Full time San Francisco, California, United States

Our client is a stealth, seed-stage startup building an AI-powered wearable platform for industrial field technicians - running a real-time computer-vision and agentic AI system directly on smart-glasses hardware, live today with major data-center, energy, and industrial customers across multiple countries. Backed by a $5M seed round and founded by researchers from Harvard/NASA (computer vision, published at NeurIPS and ICCV) and MIT (machine learning, ex-quant researcher).

The bet: computer vision and agentic vision-language models (VLMs) grounded in real integrations with legacy enterprise systems (ServiceNow, SAP, Salesforce) — not another LLM wrapper. The industrial data this generates is also laying the groundwork for robotics automation down the line.

As Founding Full-Stack Engineer, you'll own the product layer end-to-end: the real-time video/data pipeline connecting wearable hardware to the AI core under tight latency budgets and unreliable connectivity, the backend APIs and data layer, and the frontend/mobile client customers actually touch.

What You'll Do

Build and own the real-time pipeline linking wearable hardware to the AI system

Design and ship backend APIs and the core data layer

Build the frontend/mobile client customers use daily

Work directly with the founding team in a small, high-ownership environment

Location & Culture

Fully on-site in the SF Bay Area. The founding team lives and works together for the first several months in a shared house before moving to a standard office - expect an intense, in-person, roughly 9-9-6 pace. Hours flex for exceptional, senior talent; the priority is getting the right person, not saving on salary.