Head of Engineering, Vivid Machines

• Do you love solving complex problems, and want to see your work applied in real life? We are looking for people who are self-directed and driven by a desire for excellence as much as by curiosity and a desire to learn by solving previously unsolvable problems
• The ideal candidate can architect and develop scalable solutions while considering performance, security, and stability
• Good knowledge of various disciplines will let you work on software that extends across our entire data pipeline, from our sensor hardware to the front end
• If you are interested in growing in a multidisciplinary engineering environment, this is the position for you!
• Lead-level experience deploying and scaling a production-grade IoT or hardware-integrated product
• Experience designing scalable backends (likely GCP/AWS) capable of handling high-volume raw data ingestion for ML training
• The ability to "speak" across the stack—discussing FPGA/GPIO constraints with hardware engineers one hour and React/Flutter state management with web/mobile devs the next
• Experience hiring, mentoring, or managing high-performing engineering teams
• Experience working directly with product owners to translate customer needs (dashboards/analytics) into technical roadmaps
• Experience with MLOps—specifically the "Data Flywheel." This includes managing how data moves from the edge to the cloud, is labeled, trained, and redeployed back to the device
• Experience with systems programming, a good understanding of memory safety, concurrency, and performance optimization for edge devices
• Familiarity with deploying vision models on constrained hardware (e.g., NVIDIA Jetson/Tegra platforms)

Desirable

• Our vision at Vivid Machines is to revolutionize agricultural production to help solve food security globally
• Our initial focus is on helping fruit and vegetable farmers improve the quality and quantity of produce they can generate on existing acreage while also improving sustainability
• To do this, we are building cutting-edge technology, including real-time vision systems and state-of-the-art AI models, all while delivering a seamless experience to farmers
• As a Senior Engineer, you will have the opportunity to work on challenging problems throughout our software stack, designing and developing robust and scalable solutions across embedded systems, cloud, mobile, and web
• You’ll be collaborating with our multidisciplinary team to create an amazing product and solve one of the world’s most important problems