Staff Software Engineer, AI

Who we are.

Founded by engineers from Stanford, Cisco Meraki, and Samsara, Spot AI is one of the fastest growing Video AI companies in the U.S., transforming standard cameras into powerful AI tools that elevate safety, security and operations for businesses nationwide.  In just four years, we have processed more than 1 billion hours of video and today ingest more daily new videos than YouTube. Our industry leading Video AI agents are changing physical operations and defining what video AI can accomplish for physical operations. 

We are challenging and disrupting the $30 billion video surveillance market with a plug-and-play camera agnostic solution that is expanding use-cases beyond traditional security. Our approach has fueled fast adoption across 17 industries, powering nearly 1000 businesses and over 70,000 camera feeds.

Our exceptionally talented team has created a high growth trajectory that has attracted almost $100 million in investment from top venture firms, including Redpoint, Scale Venture Partners, Bessemer, StepStone and Qualcomm.

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We’re looking for like-minded builders.

We are an extremely passionate and ambitious team building a company designed to outlast our lifetime. 

No matter the role or level, Spotans (our team members) share a common DNA, and we’re looking for more teammates who share the same high-performance mindset:

• Relentless Drive: You have extreme ambition and something to prove. Challenges fuels you. Building isn’t just what you do; it’s who you are.
• Builder’s Mentality: You thrive on creating new solutions, not maintaining the status quo. If you've founded a company, been employee number 1 - 20, or have run a venture for over two years, we’re especially excited to meet you!
• High Hustle, High Humility: You combine high IQ with high EQ, a low ego, and an unyielding work ethic that pushes you to be among the best at what you do.

Our cultural pillars guide how we operate. We:

• Spend Strategically. We maximize resources and minimize waste.
• Push for Progress. We make decisions, move fast, and celebrate action.
• Obsess Over Customers: We remove friction and add value to create delight.
• Trust Our Team: Respect, trust and collaboration are non-negotiable.
• Act Like Owners: We say what we’ll do, and we do what we say, taking pride and responsibility in our work.
• Never Stop Having Fun: We’re creating something epic, and we’re having fun doing it.

Who you are.

• You are self-motivated and accountable. You excel with ownership and autonomy, producing high quality outcomes with minimal direction and oversight. You have strong intuition on what's most important to work on, and can focus on the most critical items.  
• You are a balanced visionary. You contribute to strategy with an ability to see the big picture, while also appreciating details with a drive to make meaningful, hands-on contributions.
• You are a humble expert. You bring strong expertise and nuanced perspectives on the latest AI technology, while staying open to new ideas and new ways of doing things. You focus on getting it right in a team setting, rather than being right.
• You strive for the next level. You’re ready to stretch your impact and influence and are ready to take on larger scale challenges and/or act as a mentor.
• You bring rich AI experience. You have a strong background in AI, ideally with video processing experience, however, experienced practitioners in AI can adapt as necessary. You understand classic deep learning techniques, from YOLO to transformer models to linear classifiers. Yet, you also have experience with the latest AI foundation models, from embeddings to LLMs and prompt engineering.
• You are a creative thinker and problem solver. You naturally think outside the box to solve new sets of customer problems, even with few resources. You have a keen eye and technical frameworks for setting an AI technical direction based on customer context.
• You bring high-scale technical excellence. You deeply understand software design, architecture, big-data processing pipelines, and best practices on systems design + scalability, code quality, and data/model design. You appreciate the finer details, such as edge model optimizations, vector indexes and how they work, or how to design a maintainable data schema. You’ve designed and led complex systems, shaped multi-team architectures, and created frameworks that prevent defects and improve validation across products. 
• You’re a debugging and operational excellence expert. You adopt observability tools, tackle unfamiliar codebases, and develop resources like runbooks to prevent issues. You have an eye for impending technical issues or optimization opportunities, and architectural improvements that could be made to increase overall engineering productivity.
• You’re a technical leader. You understand the skill and personal strengths of team members, effectively mentoring them and placing engineers into the projects that make them and the company successful
• You bring 6+ years in software engineering, with significant expertise in AI plus a strong track record in high-quality system delivery.

What you’ll do: 

You’ll play a critical role in advancing Spot AI’s capabilities, using your AI expertise to drive innovative solutions for businesses with physical environments—from manufacturing plants to car dealerships. Leading the design and integration of AI-driven features, you’ll elevate both new and existing products, focusing on scalable, real-world applications that improve safety, operations, and efficiency. Working closely with cross-functional teams, you’ll apply cutting-edge AI techniques to transform video data into actionable insights that empower our clients. By setting standards in AI reliability and performance, you’ll ensure Spot AI’s product suite consistently delivers high-impact outcomes.

What excites you:

• Working on and thinking about the latest models across multiple domains, such as Dinov2, CLIP, GPT4o/Gemini. Applying these models to real world physical problems to enhance safety, operations, and efficiency. 
• Working with a datastream of over 200k datapoints and embeddings a second, wrangling this into actionable insights with fast and accurate queries. 
• Helping to democratize and educate about the latest foundational models to customers and team members, helping them share your vision of what AI can do for the world. 
• Working with a global, several thousand node distributed hybrid edge-cloud, processing millions of hours of video a day.A place that gives you the room to learn from failure while driving excellence.
• Advancing Spot AI’s product capabilities by applying cutting-edge AI techniques, helping transform video data into powerful, real-world solutions for our clients.
• Designing and implementing AI-driven features across new and existing products, with a focus on scalability and tangible value for diverse industries.
• Diving into complex challenges in video intelligence, using your expertise to bring actionable insights to businesses in physical environments.
• Collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to build tools and frameworks that set a new standard for AI performance and reliability in our industry.
• Mentoring and guiding other engineers to foster collaboration and innovation that increase project impact.
• A culture where hard work that drives great outcomes is expected, celebrated, and rewarded.
• A place where you can make industry-wide impact and contribute to one of the most exciting technologies of our time

Compensation and Benefits.

• Annual Base Salary Range: $175,000 - $240,000. The offered salary depends on your location within the U.S. and your demonstrated skills and competencies for the role. Your recruiting partner will provide more details on the range specific to your geography as you move through the interview process.
• Meaningful early stage equity
• Medical, dental and vision plan options with significant company contributions towards premiums
• Company paid short- and long-term disability plans
• Company paid life insurance
• 401K with Employer Match

Come build the future of Video AI with us!

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.