# Edge Inference Developer Tooling Founder

Edge AI is a production requirement across automotive, robotics, and industrial verticals, but the infrastructure underneath it doesn't exist. Every team deploying models on edge devices rebuilds memory management, platform abstraction, and monitoring logic from scratch. The hardware is fragmenting across dozens of chipsets and runtimes. No single vendor's tools cover the stack. The developer experience is years behind what cloud teams take for granted. The opportunity: Build the software and tooling layer that makes edge hardware usable - frameworks that abstract across platforms, memory managers that optimize dynamically, observability stacks that surface what's happening inside a deployed model running on a sensor or a vehicle. Start with the highest-cost-of-failure verticals (autonomous vehicles, industrial robotics), then expand into the full edge AI developer stack. A few examples: Edge Observability and Developer Tools Teams deploying models at the edge have no visibility into what those models are doing in the field. Inference latency, memory pressure, thermal headroom: none of it is legible. When a model degrades, debugging is manual and slow. Memory Management and Testing

- **Id**: 858282
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/forumvc-edge-inference-developer-tooling-founder>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Locations**: Toronto, Canada, Chicago, United States, San Francisco, United States, Boston, United States, New York, United States
- **Countries**: CA, US
- **Hiring countries**: US, CA
- **Hiring countries total**: 2
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-04-21T15:49:52Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-04-21
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T07:41:53Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 200
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4519
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Venture Capital, Angel Networks & Startup Accelerators

## Company

- **Id**: 694234
- **Name**: Forum Ventures
- **Domain**: forumvc.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/forumvc>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: yes
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 70
- **Open postings**: 14
- **Ghost share**: 0.5
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Remote working hours

- **Label**: US time zones
- **Utc offset min**: \-8
- **Utc offset max**: \-5

## Salary

- **Min**: 50000
- **Max**: 100000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 100000

## Technologies

- **Edge AI** — Optional: no
- **Google AI Studio** — Optional: no
- **Sensor Fusion** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ghost
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale, company_stale
- **Days open**: 200

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country
- **Canada** — Iso: CA; Kind: country
- **New York** — Kind: city
- **San Francisco** — Kind: city
- **Chicago** — Kind: city
- **Boston** — Kind: city
- **Toronto** — Kind: city

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-13T08:11:33Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 4
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.131
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 200
- **Expected fill days**: 15
- **Reasons**: conf:2, stale_co, ghost, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 100000
- **Is top pay**: no

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