Engineering Director: HW & AI Platforms

WIN Reality, Inc.; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

WIN Reality, Inc. is seeking a Director of Engineering to lead the engineering organization and deliver the product roadmap for all WIN surfaces, including Smart Park camera systems, Blast Motion sensors, TrainVR, and web/mobile/backend platforms.

This is a hands-on leadership role focused on delivering high‑quality software and hardware integrations at scale. You will oversee seven direct reports across CV, AI, devices, backend, frontend, mobile, and Live Ops, shape the technical strategy, and

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years leading engineering teams and managing managers or tech leads.
• Track record shipping products that combine hardware and software — connected devices, cameras, or sensors.
• Hands-on depth in at least two of: computer vision, AI/ML, embedded/IoT, cloud backend, web, or mobile.
• Experience at modern, high-growth technology companies using a cloud-native stack.
• Based in, or willing to relocate to, Austin or Los Angeles.

Responsibilities

• Lead seven direct reports across computer vision, AI, connected devices, backend, frontend, mobile, and live operations.
• Hire and retain top engineering talent, and build a team known for ownership and craft.
• Set clear expectations, give direct feedback, and run performance management with rigor and care.
• Build an engineering culture rooted in accountability, technical excellence, and speed.
• Own execution of the product roadmap in partnership with Product and Design leadership.
• Translate roadmap priorities into staffed, sequenced, realistic plans — and deliver against them on the expected timelines.
• Surface risks, trade-offs, and slipped commitments early, with full context, so leadership can decide.
• Run a planning and delivery cadence (sprint, release, quarterly) that the rest of the company can rely on.
• Define and enforce the quality bar across device-connected and software products: testing, code review, release management, and observability.
• Ensure what ships works in the field — on thousands of deployed camera systems, on sensors in athletes’ hands, and in apps used every day.
• Own incident response, root-cause analysis, and the systems that prevent repeat failures.
• Partner with Live Ops to keep the deployed Smart Park fleet performant.
• Guide architecture decisions across connected devices, camera and sensor stacks, computer vision and AI pipelines, cloud backend, and web and mobile clients.
• Keep WIN’s stack modern: make sound build-vs-buy calls, manage technical debt deliberately, and adopt new tools where they make the team faster.
• Ensure our data infrastructure scales with growing device volume and new data products.
• Work hand in hand with the VP of Product and design leadership to shape what gets built and why.
• Partner with hardware leadership and Operations on firmware, device provisioning, and deployment.
• Manage external engineering partners and vendors where they extend the team’s capacity.
• Seven direct reports across WIN’s engineering disciplines.
• Close partners: VP of Product and the product team, design, hardware leadership, Smart Park operations, and Live Ops.
• This is a hands-on leadership role. The Director is expected to understand the code, the systems, and the devices well enough to make good calls and earn the team’s trust.

Skills

Software engineering

Engineering leadership

Hardware‑software product shipping

Cloud-native stack

CI/CD / modern practices

Job description

WIN Reality, Inc. is seeking a Director of Engineering to lead the engineering organization and deliver the product roadmap for all WIN surfaces, including Smart Park camera systems, Blast Motion sensors, TrainVR, and web/mobile/backend platforms.

This is a hands-on leadership role focused on delivering high‑quality software and hardware integrations at scale. You will oversee seven direct reports across CV, AI, devices, backend, frontend, mobile, and Live Ops, shape the technical strategy, and