Founding Product Engineer

Netradyne; San Diego (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary

Yearly bonus eligibility

Company equity

Health Care, Dental, Vision

Generous PTO and Sick Leave

401(K) with match

Disability & Life Insurance

Job summary

Netradyne, based in San Diego, is building a new Physical AI product line. We're hiring founding-team generalists who can own problems end-to-end—from edge device, through the cloud platform, to the surface a safety manager touches—and move fluidly between platform/infrastructure and product/experience based on needs.

You will talk to customers, translate feedback into built features, and drive them to shipped releases. 7+ years in software, multi-tenant RBAC, and cloud concepts are valued.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 7+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience with multi-tenant systems and RBAC.
• Fluent with AI-assisted development tools and cloud tech.

Responsibilities

• Own problems end-to-end from edge to cloud to user interface.
• Balance platform, product, and customer conversations.
• Ship iteratively with real customers and pilots.
• Collaborate across infra, backend, and frontend as needed.

Skills

Systems thinking

Dynamic range

Bias to action

Direct customer experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Go

Python

Java

Job description

Netradyne harnesses the power of Computer Vision and Edge Computing to revolutionize the modern-day transportation ecosystem. We are a leader in fleet safety solutions. With growth exceeding 4x year over year, our solution is quickly being recognized as a significant disruptive technology. Our team is growing, and we need forward-thinking, uncompromising, competitive team members to continue to facilitate our growth.

About us

At Netradyne, our team is committed to delivering solutions to our customers that advance their market leadership. Our focus is to continuously drive innovation while delivering meaningful, actionable data. The Netradyne Driveri® Vision-Based Driver Recognition Safety Program significantly advances the technology category through the application of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Edge Computing. The foundations of Driveri® are equally focused on providing comprehensive performance insights, highlighting positive activity, and significantly reducing the resources needed to address risk. Netradyne draws from a diverse team of innovators, technologists, and customer advocates to create an experience where customer success continues to motivate what is next.

Supported and funded by our investors, Softbank, M12, Hyundai Cradle, Point72 Ventures, Microsoft and Reliance Industrial Investments and Holdings; Netradyne is committed to building a world-class team of technologists and industry experts to deliver products that improve safety, increase productivity, and optimize collaboration within the organizations. With growth exceeding 3x year over year, our solution is quickly being recognized as a significant disruptive technology – that has put ‘legacy’ providers in a “spin” cycle trying to catch up. Our team is growing, and we need forward-thinking, uncompromising, competitive team members to continue to facilitate our growth.

Position Summary

We are building a new Physical AI product line at Netradyne — a vision-based platform that monitors activity across physical environments and surfaces safety risks in real time. This is founding-team work, and we're hiring generalists who are excited about building something new.

A Founding Product Engineer owns problems end-to-end — from an edge device, through the cloud platform, to the surface a safety manager touches — and moves fluidly between them depending on what the product needs that week. You'll naturally lean toward platform/infrastructure or toward product/experience based on your strengths, but you're expected to have working range across both, not a hard boundary between "backend team" and "frontend team." You talk to customers directly, turn what you hear into what gets built, and take it the rest of the way to shipped.

Essential Functions

Platform & infrastructure (lean here if that's your strength)

• Cloud ingestion and storage— real-time event streaming, time-series and event storage, the data model for safety events and metrics.
• Multi-tenancy, identity, and access control— multiple customers, multiple sites per customer, role-based access control, authentication and SSO.
• Infrastructure and DevOps— AWS, containerized deployments, CI/CD, and monitoring across the edge and cloud stack.

Product & experience (lean here if that’s your strength)

• Operations dashboard— real-time event feed, alert detail with video clips, site map, zone-violation tracking, risk summaries.
• Compliance analytics— trend reporting, time-based comparisons, exportable reports for safety and operational record-keeping.
• Operator scoring and coaching workflow— worker/operator safety scoring, coaching queue, session tracking and completion.

Shared, regardless of lean

• Agent layer / agentic features— the orchestration layer and conversational/agentic surfaces over safety data (alert triage, auto-coaching drafts, summarization), built on managed services or internal modules where they fit.
• Rapid iteration with real customers— ship fast, instrument usage, work directly in the field, run pilots alongside live deployments.

Qualifications

What we're looking for

• Systems thinking— you can reason about a problem end-to-end, from device to cloud to the person using it, and make sound calls with incomplete information.
• Dynamic range— you move between an infra problem, a product/UX problem, and a customer conversation within the same week without needing to be re-anchored each time. You don't default to the one lane you're most comfortable in.
• Bias to action, full ownership— given an ambiguous problem, you scope it, build it, ship it, and measure it, without waiting to be told the next step.
• Direct customer experience— you've worked directly with customers or end users to shape what gets built, not just built to a spec handed down.

Baseline technical range

• Full-stack comfort: a modern backend language (Go, Python, Java) and, depending on lean, either cloud infrastructure (AWS, containers, CI/CD, distributed/event-driven systems) or modern frontend (TypeScript/JavaScript) and data-dense real-time UI (dashboards, event feeds, video, timelines).
• Experience designing or working within multi-tenant systems with role-based access control.
• Fluent with AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) as part of your day-to-day workflow.
• 7+ years of software engineering experience. We'd rather have someone with less tenure and real range than more tenure in one narrow lane.

Nice to have

• Agent orchestration or workflow engines (e.g. Temporal); managed identity platforms (WorkOS, Auth0, Clerk).
• Data pipelines at scale (Spark/PySpark, time-series); high-volume IoT or sensor data.
• Building or integrating AI agent features (tool use, conversational interfaces, LLM-powered surfaces) — a strong differentiator.
• Safety, operations, or compliance software experience.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.

Hybrid Work Schedule

We believe in the value of in-person collaboration while maintaining flexibility. Team members work from the office on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with remote work on Tuesday and Friday.

Why This Role

Netradyne has analyzed over 25 billion miles of driving data and built one of the most accurate edge AI systems in commercial transportation. We are applying that capability to a new Physical AI product line — new vertical, greenfield architecture, founding team. You won't be handed a lane — you'll help define one, and move across it as the product needs.

Compensation Package

Perks of being a Netradyne employee

• Competitive Salary + eligibility for yearly bonus.
• Company equity
• Company Paid Health Care, Dental, and Vision Coverage for you and most of your dependents
• Generous PTO and Sick Leave
• 401(K) with generous company match
• Disability, Life Insurance and Ancillary Benefits
• And much more!

San Diego Pay Range

$140,000 — $190,000 USD

Equal Opportunity Statement

We are committed to an inclusive and diverse team. Netradyne is an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status, or any legally protected status.

If there is a match between your experiences/skills and the Company's needs, we will contact you directly.

Netradyne is an equal-opportunity employer.