Job Description

**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.