Open Source Software Engineer

Roboflow; California (MO); Remote; USD 175,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company that empowers developers to make computer vision accessible through innovative open-source tools. As a key team member, you will have the opportunity to shape the future of AI and machine learning by building impactful projects and collaborating with a diverse group of talented individuals. This role offers the chance to work autonomously, contribute to significant open-source initiatives, and be part of a dynamic team that values creativity and technical excellence. If you're passionate about open-source and eager to drive change, this is your chance to shine.

Benefits

$2500/yr Travel Stipend

$350/mo productivity stipend

Health insurance coverage

Equity in the company

Qualifications

• Experience with open-source projects and a strong technical background.
• Proficient in Python and JavaScript with a passion for computer vision.

Responsibilities

• Expand the open-source ecosystem and create accessible computer vision tools.
• Develop, document, and promote open-source projects to enhance user experience.

Skills

Git

Python

PyTorch

Docker

OpenCV

NumPy

GitHub Actions

Linux

JavaScript

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

GitHub

PyPI

Job description

Who We Are

Our mission is to make the world programmable. Sight is one of the key ways we understand the world, and soon this will be true for the software we use, too.

At Roboflow, we’re building the tools, community, and resources needed to make the world programmable with artificial intelligence. Roboflow simplifies building and using computer vision models. Today, over 500,000 developers, including those from half the Fortune 100, use Roboflow’s machine learning open source and hosted tools.

Our team is small relative to our impact, and we believe our user success is our success. A team member summarized: “Roboflow is a company full of giant brains and tiny egos.” We find software has a multiplier effect on all roles, so Roboflow employs developers across the company in design, sales, customer support, marketing, and beyond.

We’re supported by great customers and investors, having raised over $60 million from Google Ventures (GV), Craft Ventures, Y Combinator, Sam Altman, Lachy Groom, amongst other leading software investors.

What We're Looking For

We’re looking for people that can own a large set of problems and are motivated by the question: “How can I improve this?” Many members of our team are former founders and they love working at Roboflow because they get to work autonomously and build solutions from the ground up.

What You'll Do

Expand our thriving open-source ecosystem and create a future where computer vision is accessible to every developer. You'll be building upon a foundation of 40k+ GitHub stars across our projects, with over 1 million monthly PIP downloads, 500k+ datasets, and 100k+ pre-trained models.

As an early hire, you’ll have a significant impact on the product and the direction of Open Source at Roboflow. Your focus will be on adding value to the AI/ML/CV open source ecosystem, working with existing Roboflow projects and creating new projects that do not yet exist. You’ll help shape project roadmaps based on your own experiences, write code, create documentation, promote projects, develop content, talk to contributors, work with users, and keep a pulse on what’s missing in our ecosystem.

Example Projects

• Develop open source tools and integrations to help make computer vision easier for software developers.
• Add features, fix bugs, and optimize code in our open source projects.
• Review contributors’ pull requests.
• Write documentation to make our software more accessible and understandable.
• Experiment with new and emerging technologies, languages, models, frameworks, to find new ways to help developers succeed with computer vision.
• Create demos and technical content all the way through production, publishing, and promotion.
• Work with Product and Engineering to ensure open source projects can be used within the core Roboflow product.
• Ship enhancements and new features directly into the core platform based on your experience.
• Build projects that will help improve the “bleeding edge” of the main Roboflow product.
• Be an active participant in communities like HN, relevant subreddits, Discord groups, GitHub Issues, Stack Overflow, etc.
• Promote our open-source projects through compelling blog posts, social media content, and other channels.

Who You Are

You believe in the power of open source as a strategy to build a category-defining company. You have built and led open-source projects of your own, contribute to projects on a regular basis, and have a passion for making computer vision more accessible with open-source software.

• Must-Have Technical Knowledge: Git, Python, PyTorch, Docker, OpenCV, NumPy, GitHub Actions, PyPI, Linux
• Nice to Have Technical Knowledge: JavaScript, OpenVINO, TensorRT, TFjs, TensorFlow, ONNX, CUDA
• Experience building open-source projects. You thrive at identifying key features and bringing them to fruition.
• An excellent track record of shipping software projects with fast adoption and virality.
• An enthusiastic, strong, technical generalist.
• A background in computer science or a related field.
• Writing clean code in Python and JavaScript.
• A profound interest in learning and understanding computer vision, machine learning, and developer tooling.
• Skilled communicator and collaborator who wants to lead projects across both Marketing and Product teams eventually.
• Experience planning development roadmaps and estimating tasks for software projects.
• A history of creating and sharing technical content, such as blog posts and social media updates.
• Having built with Roboflow is a huge plus!

Within one month, you will…

• Spend the first week of onboarding in person with your manager.
• Start building a trusting relationship with your peers, and learning the company structure.
• Ship at least one substantial new feature to an end user within your first week.
• Submit many PRs across several of our open-source repos.
• Build your first Roboflow computer vision product.
• Understand the overall company vision, mission, strategy, product, roadmap, and open source’s critical contribution to the success of the company.
• Create and share your first social media post highlighting one of our open-source projects.

Within three months, you will…

• Be fully confident in contributing to and maintaining at least two of our open-source projects.
• Continue to ramp up your shipping velocity and impact.
• Review PRs, contributing to projects, and helping community members.
• Deliver new ideas and features to help increase the growth rate of open source projects.

Within six months, you will…

• Attend your first all-company onsite.
• Be fully confident in contributing to and helping maintain all of our open source projects.
• Have a consistent cadence of open source strategy/planning, roadmapping, delivering new releases, and expanding functionality of projects.
• Be ramped up on all relevant parts of the Roboflow product.

Who You'll Be Working With

You will be working directly with our Open Source Lead, along with our Marketing Lead, Marketing Engineers, and Core Product Engineers.

We are currently a team of 60 team members located all over the US and Europe. Our team’s backgrounds range from high school whiz kids, former founders of technology companies and fashion lines, world-class engineers, CMOs to CEOs. We want to work with exceptional people with a diverse background.

Where You'll Work

Roboflow is distributed across the US and Europe. We currently have Hubs in New York City and San Francisco. We provide opportunities and resources to work in person with other team members as much as you'd like, while also supporting remote team members.

When You'll Work

Given that we are a remote company, we don’t have a particular time-zone preference for this role. However, you may need to be available for non-recurring urgent meetings outside of working hours. We have a flexible schedule that allows you to work collaboratively with other team members and asynchronously when needed.

Level

Senior+

What You'll Receive

To determine your salary, we use a number of market and data-driven salary sources. We review all salaries every 6 months to ensure we stay in line with the market.

The target compensation for this role is $175,000 to $190,000 base salary.

In addition to our cash compensation, we offer generous perks and benefits:

• $2500/yr Travel Stipend to travel anywhere anytime to work alongside other Roboflowers.
• $350/mo productivity stipend to spend on things that make your work environment more productive.
• Cover up to 100% of your health insurance costs for you and your partner or family.
• Equity in the company.

Not sure if this is you?

We want a diverse, global team, with a broad range of experience and perspectives. If this job sounds great, but you’re not sure if you qualify, apply to our Former Founders role or subscribe to our career newsletter.

Learn More About Us

We are building a diverse Satellite team that is distributed across the globe. Roboflow is an equal opportunity workplace; we welcome people from all backgrounds, communities, and experiences.

Learn more about what it is like to work at Roboflow by reading blogs.

We want to ensure Roboflow is an environment that suits your working style and empowers you to do your best work.