Sr. Systems Software Engineer, Firmware Engineering

Who We Are:

Founded in 2018 by engineers from Stanford, Cisco Meraki, and Samsara, Spot AI is the fastest growing Video Intelligence company in the U.S. We are upending the $30 billion video surveillance market with an AI Camera System to create a safer, smarter physical world via Video Intelligence for every person at work. In the process, we’re disrupting video security to create a new category of Video Intelligence.

We are experiencing tremendous growth and are deployed at thousands of locations across businesses in 17 different verticals, ranging from local businesses to Fortune 500s. Our customers range from warehousing and healthcare to nonprofits and car washes including ExtraSpace Storage, WineDirect, YMCA, and Veg Fresh Farms.

We’ve raised $40M Series B financing to continue to transform how organizations use their video footage. We’re backed by Scale Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, StepStone Group, and MVP Ventures.
To learn even more about our product and why our customers love to partner with Spot AI, check out our YouTube channel!

Who You Are:

You love building computer systems. You enjoy troubleshooting deeply technical software and operating systems issues. You are passionate about making software faster, more reliable and easier to use for end users. You have significant experience and knowledge of Linux systems. You have worked with optimizing software for CPU, GPU architectures.  You understand how to benchmark software performance and have experience building infrastructure and tooling for this. 

What Excites You:

• Being part of the team responsible for building video intelligence edge devices that run our video processing and AI workloads
• Owning complex software development projects from design, implementation, testing and delivery.
• Rapid prototyping for building new product ideas and features
• Setup benchmarks and analyze performance data to identify bottlenecks and optimization opportunities
• Solving problems of scale as we go from thousands of edge devices to tens of thousands of devices. 

What Gets Our Attention:

• At least 5 years of software development experience. Experience with Go is preferred and familiarity with Rust is a plus.
• At least 5 years of experience with troubleshooting and debugging Linux systems. Experience with Yocto or other embedded Linux environments is a big plus.
• Experience with CPU/GPU performance measurement and tuning
• Leveraging CI/CD systems and testing infrastructure
• Experience with building resilient, distributed systems is desirable
• Familiarity with building systems for AI/ML processing is a plus

What’s In It For You:

• Base Salary Range: $155,000 - $200,000. Offered salary will be based on the offered candidate’s demonstrated attributes and competencies related to the role, as well as the offered candidate’s geographical location within the United States.  Your recruiting partner can share more details about the compensation range as it relates to your geography once your interview process has begun.
• Generous early stage equity
• Medical, dental and vision plan options 
• 401K with Employer Match
• Flexible and supportive time off practices, including self-managed PTO and a generous new parent leave policy
• Learning and Development Opportunities

What We Value:

We operate under a trio of company values:

1. Customer First, Always.  We are relentlessly curious about our customer’s goals, and seek the simplest solutions to solve their problems.
2. Own Your Outcomes.  We bias towards action, move fast, and iterate.  Everyone on our team is empowered to make decisions.
3. It’s a team effort.  We help each other succeed.  We leverage each other’s strengths to accomplish big goals together.

And, we are creating and cultivating a diverse and inclusive culture where we celebrate individuals for what they accomplish, no matter who they are!  As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Come join our journey!