Staff Software Engineer

ZipRecruiter; New London (CT); Remote; USD 175,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Staff Software Engineer with a strong AI background to drive innovative solutions. This fully remote role involves leading the design of AI features and collaborating with teams to enhance product capabilities. Ideal candidates are self-motivated, have a builder's mentality, and bring over 6 years of software engineering experience, particularly in AI and video processing.

Benefits

Meaningful early-stage equity

Medical, dental, and vision plans

Company-paid disability plans

Company-paid life insurance

401K with employer match

Qualifications

• 6+ years in software engineering with expertise in AI.
• Strong background in software design and architecture.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and integration of AI-driven features.
• Transform video data into actionable insights.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Skills

AI

Problem Solving

Software Design

Debugging

Technical Leadership

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

Job Description

Staff Software Engineer Full-Time Role (Fully Remote)

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 fuel 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 prepared 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. 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 customer problems, even with limited 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 finer details, such as edge model optimizations, vector indexes, and maintainable data schemas. You’ve designed and led complex systems, shaped multi-team architectures, and created frameworks to 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 increase engineering productivity.
• You’re a technical leader. You understand the skills and personal strengths of team members, effectively mentoring them and placing engineers into projects that foster success for both individuals and the company.
• You bring 6+ years in software engineering, with significant expertise in AI and a strong track record of 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, GPT4, or Gemini. Applying these models to real-world physical problems to enhance safety, operations, and efficiency.
• Working with a data stream of over 200k data points and embeddings per 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, sharing your vision of AI’s potential impact.
• Working with a global, several-thousand-node distributed hybrid edge-cloud system, processing millions of hours of video daily. A place that allows learning from failure while driving excellence.
• Advancing Spot AI’s product capabilities by applying cutting-edge AI techniques, transforming video data into powerful, real-world solutions.
• Designing and implementing AI-driven features across products, emphasizing scalability and tangible value across industries.
• Addressing complex challenges in video intelligence, using your expertise to deliver actionable insights for physical environment businesses.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to build tools and frameworks that set new standards for AI performance and reliability.
• Mentoring and guiding engineers to foster collaboration and innovation, increasing project impact.
• Working in a culture where hard work and great outcomes are celebrated and rewarded.
• Making industry-wide impact and contributing to one of the most exciting technologies today.

Compensation and Benefits:

• Annual Base Salary Range: $175,000 - $240,000, depending on location and demonstrated skills. Your recruiting partner will provide specific details during the interview process.
• Meaningful early-stage equity
• Medical, dental, and vision plans with significant company contributions
• Company-paid short- and long-term disability plans
• Company-paid life insurance
• 401K with employer match