Staff AI Systems Engineer, Flock Safety
$200-225k
+ Flock Safety Stock Options
Public safety operating system
Be an early applicant
Public safety operating system
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$200-225k
+ Flock Safety Stock Options
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create safer, happier communities and cities by pre-emptively fighting crime.
Role
Who you are
- ML Platform expertise: 5+ years building and shipping ML/LLM systems to production; experience in the following areas:
- ML Inference (PyTorch, TensorRT, NVIDIA Triton), ideally in multimodal domains (text/image/video)
- LLM Inference (LangChain/LangGraph, vLLM, OpenAI/Gemini/Anthropic APIs)
- Compute orchestration (Kubernetes, Prefect, Ray)
- Cloud Infrastructure (AWS, Terraform, VPC, Networking)
- Observability (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, LangSmith/Langfuse)
- Data (ClickHouse, Postgres, Redis)
- Web services (Express/FastAPI, REST, SSE, JWTs)
- Backend JS (e.g. NodeJS) familiarity required; Typescript and Python familiarity welcome
- Familiarity with Agentic Systems: Hands-on experience with LLM agents including:
- Agent Design: tool use (via MCP), retrieval, memory, grounding/attribution for claims, and guardrails
- Architectural patterns: planning and hand-off for multi-agent systems, context management
- RAG: vector/hybrid search (e.g. pgvector, turbopuffer, chroma), re-rankers (e.g. Cohere, JinaAI)
- Experience with LLM Evaluations at scale: You’ve built offline/online eval harnesses and are familiar with the methodologies and metrics to measure:
- Search, retrieval, and recommendation performance
- Agentic task success, trajectory quality, preference learning (SFT, DPO, RLHF, LLM-as-judge)
- Safety & robustness (security, compliance, red-teaming, regression testing)
- Cost, performance and latency trade-offs
- Feeling uneasy that you haven’t ticked every box? That’s okay; we’ve felt that way too. Studies have shown women and minorities are less likely to apply unless they meet all qualifications. We encourage you to break the status quo and apply to roles that would make you excited to come to work every day
- If you’re excited to build AI that tangibly amplifies real-world public safety outcomes—and you love making complex systems measurable, dependable, and fast—we’d love to talk
What the job involves
- We’re hiring a Staff AI Systems Engineer to help support our emerging product, Night Shift, an AI copilot that amplifies the impact of investigators by automating the tedious, repetitive steps involved in working a case
- This role sits within the Machine Learning team and will work closely with partners in Engineering (Backend, Frontend, and Design) in a fast-paced environment
- You will be one of the earliest technical contributors to our system architecture for agentic AI, and will own our AI evaluation framework
- The outcome we’re after is clear and ambitious: measurably faster, more accurate leads for every officer and every shift
- The First 30 Days
- Immerse yourself in the current system design and agent/tooling landscape. Understand the core customer use cases and data flows
- Support the team by shipping a few quick wins (e.g., refining tool APIs, prompt engineering, fixing bugs)
- Stand up the foundational eval and observability scaffolding (datasets, metrics, KPIs, reporting)
- Propose a technical architecture and implementation plan for an agent evaluation framework
- The First 60 Days
- Deliver the MVP evaluation harness to produce initial metrics, enable debugging and perform regression testing
- Take on a system feature that offers demonstrated improvement against your MVP evaluation suite
- 90 Days & Beyond
- Productionize the evaluation and observability platform and make it the source of truth for quality and safety. (e.g. Online/offline tracing, alerting, dashboards, evaluations and PR-gated regression suite)
- Own the roadmap for evolving the agent evaluation platform
- Lead deeper R&D threads (e.g., lightweight fine-tuned projection layers, specialized embeddings, multimodal understanding) that can improve system performance on core metrics
Application process
- If an offer is extended and accepted, this position requires the ability to obtain and maintain Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) certification as a condition of employment. Applicants must meet all FBI CJIS Security Policy requirements, including a fingerprint-based background check
Our take
Public vehicle surveillance provides valuable insights to emergency services for the prevention of crime, but bringing information together to create leads is difficult. There's no standardised system for inter-city vehicle surveillance, and this makes it difficult for communities and law enforcement services to work together.
Flock Safety provides surveillance equipment that aims to improve the abilities of law enforcement and homeowner associations to communicate data with each other. The company focuses on vehicle surveillance, innovating on existing technology by using machine learning to categorise vehicles by color, license plate, state, and other data points.
Whilst automated surveillance equipment is used daily within federal police forces, Flock Safety builds technology systems that provide a means for smaller law enforcement agencies to quantify and share surveillance data easily. It's caught on too, with a funding round of $275 million awarded in 2025 that will be used to expand its manufacturing capabilities. lock Safety, a U.S. startup developing surveillance technology, has raised $275 million in new funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, as it invests in a manufacturing facility and expands into drone products, the company told Reuters. funding behind it, This data can then be automatically processed to help develop leads, a time-consuming process that would usually have to be completed manually.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
40% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Mar 2025
$275m
LATE VC
Mar 2024
$200m
SERIES G
Total funding: $857.8m
Company benefits
- 🌴Use what you need PTO: We seriously mean it, plus 11 company holidays and your birthday off!
- ⚕️Fully-paid health benefits plan for employees: including Medical, Dental, and Vision and an HSA match
- 👪Family Leave: We provide 16 weeks of 100% paid leave for primary caregivers and 12 weeks of 100% paid leave for secondary caregivers
- 🍼Fertility & Family Benefits: We have partnered with Maven, a complete digital health benefit for starting and raising a family. We will reimburse $10,000 a year for adoption, surrogacy, or infertility
- 🧠Mental Health: All employees receive an annual subscription to Headspace
- 💖Caregiver Support: We have partnered with Cariloop to provide our employees with caregiver support
- 💸Carta Tax Advisor: Employees receive 1:1 sessions with Equity Tax Advisors who can address individual grants, model tax scenarios, and answer general questions
- 💻WFH Stipend: $150 per month to cover the costs of working from home
- 📚L&D Stipend: $250 per year to use on Audible, Calm, Masterclass, Duolingo, Grammarly and so much more
- 🏠Home Office Stipend: A one-time $750 to help you create your dream office
- 🏢Coworking Space: If you’re not local to our ATL HQ, we’ll provide $250 a month to get you set up with an All Access Membership to WeWork (or a local coworking space in your area)
- 🐾Pet Insurance: We’ve partnered with Pumpkin to provide insurance for our employee’s fur babies
Company HQ
Home Park, Atlanta, GA
Leadership
Garrett Langley
(Founder & CEO)They worked in Computer Services freelance for over 6 years before joining Firethorn in 2015, and Clutch Technologies in 2014. They left their position as President of Moment LLC to found Flock Safety in April 2017.
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