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.