Ocular AI
Data engine for Generative AI, Computer Vision, and Enterprise AI.
Member of Technical Staff, Founding Frontend Engineer
About the role
Location: San Francisco, CA, In-Person
Compensation:
- Base: $130k to $200k
- Stock: 0.5% to 1%
Perks & Benefits
- Competitive Compensation: Base salary and significant equity (0.5%-1%).
- Health Insurance: Comprehensive dental, vision, and medical coverage.
- 401(k): Plan for your future with our retirement savings program.
- Work Setup Stipend: MacBook, monitor, and accessories.
- Mental Health Stipend: Monthly support for your well-being.
- Annual Company Retreats: Collaborate, relax, and recharge with the team.
About Ocular AI
Ocular AI (YC W24) is building the Data Engine for Generative AI, Computer Vision, and Enterprise AI. We help ambitious teams transform unstructured, multimodal data into high-quality "golden datasets" that power breakthroughs in robotics, self-driving technology, and generative AI.
Our flagship products—Foundry, an intuitive data-centric annotation platform, and Bolt, an enterprise-grade scalable data labeling service—eliminate the bottlenecks of data preparation, enabling teams to focus on groundbreaking innovation.
In just three months, our lean team has achieved remarkable milestones. Backed by top investors like Drive Capital, Y Combinator, and Alumni Ventures, this is your chance to join a fast-moving, well-funded startup shaping the future of AI and AGI.
About the Role
At Ocular AI, design and engineering converge to create exceptional user experiences. We’re looking for a Frontend Engineer with a sharp eye for design and the technical expertise to craft polished, high-performing web applications.
This is more than a coding role—you’ll work at the intersection of creativity and technology, collaborating across teams to deliver impactful, design-driven solutions. Reporting directly to the founders, this high-agency role allows you to shape our products and brand while solving challenging technical problems.
What You’ll Do
- Build and Innovate: Design and maintain complex, stateful frontend applications that handle millions of entities efficiently.
- Design Collaborative Canvas: Create intuitive, high-performance tools for multimodal (image, video, audio, and more) data annotation and visualization on collaborative canvases.
- Multimodal Rendering: Develop performant 2D and 3D rendering products to support advanced data annotation workflows.
- UI/UX Excellence: Establish and enforce a consistent, delightful user experience across products.
- Elevate Standards: Drive improvements in engineering best practices, tooling, and processes to deliver maintainable and scalable codebases.
What We’re Looking For
- Technical Expertise:
- Proficiency in Next.js, React, Redux, and Recoil (or similar state management libraries).
- Experience with deployment platforms like Vercel and CMS platforms like Contentful.
- Familiarity with analytics platforms such as PostHog.
- Experience with WebSockets, LiveBlocks, or similar technologies for designing real-time, collaborative applications.
- Knowledge of multimodal rendering on web canvases (e.g., image/video/audio).
- Design Sensibility:
- Proficiency in Figma and Spline, with a strong understanding of graphic design principles (typography, color, layout, illustration).
- Ability to collaborate closely with marketing and design teams to deliver polished results.
- Startup Mindset:
- Thrive in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment with a proactive, problem-solving attitude.
- Comfortable working in person in our San Francisco office to collaborate effectively with the team.
What We Value
- Design-Oriented Thinking: Crafting solutions that are functional, user-friendly, and beautiful.
- Raw, Hardcore Intelligence: Tackling tough problems with precision, resourcefulness, and grit.
- Founder Mentality: Taking full ownership of your work, pushing for excellence, and navigating challenges with humility.
- Customer Obsession: Prioritizing user needs and creating products that delight and deliver real value.
- Humble Collaboration: Embracing feedback and fostering a team-oriented culture where diverse ideas drive success.
About the interview
- Application Review
- Conversation with Founders (30 min): Discuss your motivations, explore your fit, and ask questions.
- Technical Screen (1 hr): Solve a real-world problem to showcase your engineering skills.
- Product Design Interview (2 hr): Collaboratively design a system to assess your ability to think strategically and architect scalable solutions.
- Work Trial: Spend a week building with the team, showcasing your skills and experiencing life at Ocular AI.
About Ocular AI
Ocular AI is the data annotation engine for Generative AI, Computer Vision, and Enterprise AI models.
We help companies transform unstructured, multi-modal data into golden datasets to power generative AI, frontier models, and computer vision.
Ocular Foundry is the most intuitive, data-centric, and fastest platform that lets you label, annotate, version, and deploy your data for training models. It also orchestrates your annotation jobs, improving collaboration with members and annotators.
With Ocular Bolt, shift from humans in the loop to experts in the loop to supercharge your data labeling and annotation projects. Our global expert workforce ensures fast, accurate results—no matter the scale or complexity of your data.
Companies spend huge amounts on training data, but Foundry and Bolt are AI-native tools that lower costs, reduce manual effort, and accelerate high-quality data collection. We’re replacing outdated, clunky, and expensive data software!
