Founding AI/ML Engineer

About this role

About the Company

Halo X Labs is building HALO Chip, a subdermal GPS and health-tracking implant for dogs. We're early-stage and currently raising, building out our founding technical team.

About the Role

We're looking for a Founding AI/ML Engineer to own the training and development of the two AI models that run directly on our device: a motion classifier for dead-reckoning location tracking, and a health classifier for fever and heatstroke detection. You'll work closely with our Head of Development, who owns AI strategy and firmware integration, while you own the hands-on model work: data, training, and getting these models small and accurate enough to run on a constrained, ultra-low-power microcontroller.

Responsibilities

• Training data pipeline for both models, working with labeled sensor logs from bench and live-animal testing
• Motion classifier development: gait and activity classification from motion sensor data
• Health classifier development: fever and heatstroke detection from temperature and activity data
• Model training, quantization, and compilation using Edge Impulse, targeting deployment on TensorFlow Lite Micro
• Working directly with our Head of Development to integrate trained models into firmware and validate them against real power and memory budgets

Qualifications

• Real experience training and deploying models for constrained hardware, TinyML / embedded ML, not just cloud-scale ML
• Comfortable working with real-world sensor data (motion, temperature) rather than clean benchmark datasets
• Experience with, or fast to pick up, Edge Impulse or a comparable embedded ML tooling workflow
• A startup-stage mindset: this role exists before there's much training data yet, you'll help define how it gets collected and structured, not just consume it
• Comfortable working directly with a non-technical CEO and a small founding team

Pay range and compensation package

This is a founding, equity-only role equity in Halo X Labs....