Vardera

About Vardera Labs At Vardera, we're building the next generation of infrastructure for the art, auction, and collectibles industry-combining cutting edge AI, computer vision, and automation to power catalog creation, data strategy, and operational excellence for auction houses worldwide. We are a small, venture backed team of operators and entrepreneurs with a bold mission: to modernize a multi billion dollar market at a critical moment of generational ownership transfer and digital transformation. What You'll Do Build and deploy AI/ML models across new asset categories (comics, cards, watches, jewelry, fine art, etc.). Balance from scratch builds with leveraging foundation models and off the shelf tools-using the right approach for speed, accuracy, and efficiency. Prototype quickly, test with real customer data, and push to production. Design workflows that minimize wasted effort while compounding into long term defensible data + model infrastructure. What We're Looking For Strong background in applied ML (vision, text, multimodal, embeddings, fine tuning). Pragmatic decision maker: knows when to train, when to adapt, and when to just glue things together. Builder mindset-bias toward action, rapid iteration, and comfort with messy or sparse data. Excited to join a post seed startup as a founding team member with broad project ownership. Why Join Direct founding level impact in a venture backed company already working with major customers. Build the models that expand us to multi category AI infrastructure. See your models drive real world revenue and efficiency in a multi trillion dollar industry. Compensation Salary level matching seed stage hires (relative to experience and fit): $175,000 - $250,000 Equity: Meaningful early equity in a high growth startup Location Hybrid, with periodic in person offsites and industry conferences. While we have a bias toward in person in Boston, it's not required everyday, but we expect you spend >50% of your time in the office.

A dynamic tech startup in Boston seeks a founding team member with expertise in building AI/ML models for various asset categories. You will drive direct impact in a venture-backed company and see your models influence a multi-trillion-dollar industry. The role is hybrid, expecting over 50% time in the office, with a competitive salary range of $175,000 to $250,000 and meaningful equity opportunities.