Staff Software Engineer (Map AI Platform)

Hivemapper; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision benefits

Family leave

401(k) program

Unlimited Flex PTO

Commuter benefits

Paid lunch

Job summary

A mapping technology firm in San Francisco is seeking an experienced AI Systems Engineer to drive the architecture and implementation of core AI systems. The ideal candidate will have strong backend development expertise and proven experience managing large-scale data platforms. This role offers competitive medical and PTO benefits, and the opportunity to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment focused on innovation in mapping and AI technology.

Qualifications

• Experience building production critical systems used by at least tens of thousands.
• Strong analytical skills in relevant fields like ML, math, or statistics.
• Track record of mentoring teams in successful projects.

Responsibilities

• Drive architecture and design of core AI systems.
• Partner across company for adaptable systems to new opportunities.
• Plan technical roadmaps and contribute to technical strategy.

Skills

Backend development

Large scale data platforms

ML and statistics

Team leadership

Job description

Hivemapper is a decentralized global map data network built by 10s of thousands of mapping devices. High-res sensors like RGB, Stereo Depth, GNSS, IMU, etc. feed sensor fusion and ML models at the edge. Data is automatically uploaded in near realtime over LTE or WiFi. Enterprise tech, mapping, auto, robotaxis, rideshare, and entertainment represent some of the customers consuming data today.

APIs allow anyone to consume precisely extracted Map Features, HD map data, high-res street-level imagery, construction, and driving events for AV simulation. Tech-savvy customers develop and deploy software directly to our dashcams to get realtime data for things like change detection or visual semantic data mining. AI Fleet management tools drive value to large fleets of vehicles.

Map AI Platform

Every day, we process data from millions of KM from 10s of thousands of high resolution sensors deployed around the world. A symphony of different Sensor Fusion, ML, AI, 3D Reconstruction processes are performed at the edge and in our processing clusters, for which the Map AI Platform orchestrates.

The Map AI Platform is the core data engine that powers our data customers, consumer products, and user-facing AI technology. These complex systems control and learn patterns about map data all over the world and enable us to to continuously evolve map data intelligence, semantic extraction, QA at scale. For example, we’ve recently been using the system to learn hyperlocalized road network patterns to automatically QA and correct noise from map conflation.

We strongly believe in engineering design principles around abstraction and programmability that allow us to move quickly with minimal manual interventions. Our work is fast-paced, collaborative, and data-driven.

Responsibilities

• Drive architecture, design, implementation, and eval of our core ai systems and data platform
• Partner across company to ensure our systems are adaptable to emerging opportunities
• Help plan technical roadmaps and contribute to higher level technical strategy

Requirements

• Experience building production critical systems used by >=10s of thousands of users
• Deep backend experience with large scale data platforms, DBs, ETL, distributed systems, etc.
• Strong analytical skills in a relevant field like ML, math, statistics, quantitative economics, etc.
• Track record of leading and mentoring teams in successful projects

Nice to Have

• Experience generating, augmenting, and managing large amounts of ML training data
• Experience integrating or training/fine-tuning ML CV vision models, VLLM models, etc.
• Familiarity with geospatial data, HD mapping, sensors fusion, ADAS or AV, etc.
• Experience scaling products or systems at hyper-growth startups

What we offer

• Medical, dental and vision benefits plus FSA
• Family leave
• 401(k) program
• Unlimited Flex PTO
• Commuter benefits
• Paid lunch