Full-Stack Engineer for AI Vision Platform — On-site Sunnyvale

Digital Waffle; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity stake

Flexible PTO

Apple equipment

Team dinners

Off-sites

Job summary

Digital Waffle in Sunnyvale, CA is hiring a Software Engineer to help build the core video intelligence platform. You’ll work across backend services, AI-driven features, and customer-facing frontends to enable real-time, language-guided search and detections.

You will collaborate with a small, ambitious team on cloud-native infrastructure, scalable pipelines, and high-availability systems, writing Go/Python/C++ on the backend and TypeScript/React on the frontend, on-site in Sunnyvale.

Qualifications

• Strong Go, Python or C++, plus real experience with modern frontend stacks.
• Comfort with distributed systems, containers and cloud-native infrastructure.
• Startup experience building from scratch, or scale-up experience and a clear sense of what good looks like.
• Fluency with AI-assisted development — and opinions on where it works and where it doesn’t.

Responsibilities

• Backend services ingesting, processing and serving video and sensor data at scale.
• AI-native features shipped end to end — natural-language search, real-time detections, agentic workflows on multimodal LLMs and computer vision.
• User-facing frontends in TypeScript and React, working directly with product.
• APIs and systems interfacing with the ML pipelines and the edge device fleet.
• Distributed systems, real-time processing and high availability, with architecture decisions made from the ground up.

Skills

Go

Python

C++

Frontend stacks

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Pulumi

TypeScript

React

Job description

Digital Waffle in Sunnyvale, CA is hiring a Software Engineer to help build the core video intelligence platform. You’ll work across backend services, AI-driven features, and customer-facing frontends to enable real-time, language-guided search and detections.

You will collaborate with a small, ambitious team on cloud-native infrastructure, scalable pipelines, and high-availability systems, writing Go/Python/C++ on the backend and TypeScript/React on the frontend, on-site in Sunnyvale.