Founding Hardware Engineer, Smart Glasses and Computer Vision at Kosha AI
Thesis
Kosha is building the audio-and-visual native operating system for the physical world of commerce. We believe that over the next decade, the way people capture and understand the spaces they move through will fundamentally change. Voice is the first layer of that shift. Vision is the next.
Our wedge is CPG field sales, where very little hardware advancement has occured in decades. Every day, hundreds of thousands of field reps walk store aisles, physically taking inventory count, snapping pictures to map product placement, and manually tagging planogram compliance. They spend countless hours on mundane tasks, when they should be selling.
Here's where Kosha fits in. Imagine smart glasses that identify every SKU on a shelf, run inventory checks automatically, and flag planogram compliance gaps in real time, then turn all of it into structured intelligence. That intelligence becomes part of the same proprietary dataset our voice product is already building - a live knowledge graph and digital twin of what is actually happening on shelves that incumbents like Nielsen and Circana cannot see, and that brands, distributors, and investors have never had access to.
We are a pre-seed team that includes the CEO (ex H.I.G. Capital, J.P. Morgan, Harvard Business School) and CTO (ex Field Sales Team at Salesforce, Optimism / OP Labs, U.C. Berkeley Computer Science).
We are hiring a founding hardware engineer, taking it from concept to a working prototype we can put in front of real customers.
What you'll do:
Prototype a smart glasses and wearable camera system for in-store SKU recognition
Evaluate off-the-shelf hardware against custom builds
Work on the computer vision pipeline for shelf and product detection, planogram matching, and inventory counting
Partner with early pilot customers to validate the use case and iterate fast
Shape what this product line becomes from its first prototype onward
You might be a fit if you:
Have built wearable, embedded, or camera-based hardware products
Are comfortable spanning hardware and the computer vision and software that runs on it
Thrive in 0 to 1 ambiguity and want to own a new product line
Have shipped independently and can move fast without a spec
Want the upside, ownership, and defining influence of a true founding role
If turning a new product line from idea into something real is the kind of problem you want to live in, let's talk. This will be a fun ride - we will learn a lot.
This role is in-person in NYC or remote.