Staff Software Engineer, Spot AI
Artificial Intelligence
$175-240k
+ Equity
AI-driven video intelligence platform
Job no longer available
AI-driven video intelligence platform
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$175-240k
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
Spot AI's mission is to make video footage accessible and easy-to-use for every person at every business.
Role
Who you are
- Relentless Drive: You have extreme ambition and something to prove. Challenges fuels 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
- 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 ready 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. Yet, 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 sets of customer problems, even with few 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 the finer details, such as edge model optimizations, vector indexes and how they work, or how to design a maintainable data schema. You’ve designed and led complex systems, shaped multi-team architectures, and created frameworks that 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 be made to increase overall engineering productivity
- You’re a technical leader. You understand the skill and personal strengths of team members, effectively mentoring them and placing engineers into the projects that make them and the company successful
- You bring 6+ years in software engineering, with significant expertise in AI plus a strong track record in high-quality system delivery
What the job involves
- 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
- Working on and thinking about the latest models across multiple domains, such as Dinov2, CLIP, GPT4o/Gemini. Applying these models to real world physical problems to enhance safety, operations, and efficiency
- Working with a datastream of over 200k datapoints and embeddings a 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, helping them share your vision of what AI can do for the world
- Working with a global, several thousand node distributed hybrid edge-cloud, processing millions of hours of video a day.A place that gives you the room to learn from failure while driving excellence
- Advancing Spot AI’s product capabilities by applying cutting-edge AI techniques, helping transform video data into powerful, real-world solutions for our clients
- Designing and implementing AI-driven features across new and existing products, with a focus on scalability and tangible value for diverse industries
- Diving into complex challenges in video intelligence, using your expertise to bring actionable insights to businesses in physical environments
- Collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to build tools and frameworks that set a new standard for AI performance and reliability in our industry
- Mentoring and guiding other engineers to foster collaboration and innovation that increase project impact
- A culture where hard work that drives great outcomes is expected, celebrated, and rewarded
- A place where you can make industry-wide impact and contribute to one of the most exciting technologies of our time
Our take
Video intelligence is the process of analyzing real-time video footage with AI-driven computer vision to diagnose and solve problems. Whilst most businesses could benefit from such technology, it usually requires the expensive and disruptive installation of specialized camera equipment, and when combined with its complexity of use, this deters many potential users.
Spot AI develops an AI-driven video intelligence platform for businesses, offering software integrations for existing cameras and free-to-use high-resolution cameras. The platform allows all relevant parties to access videos securely and investigate them through AI-driven computer vision, preventing the need for time-consuming manual investigations and back-and-forth access dilemmas.
The largest challenge the company faces is the expensive nature of video intelligence, but Spot AI provides its technology either through integration with existing cameras or by providing its high-definition cameras for free. 2025 saw it release a breakthrough for the industry - the first remote video AI agents for physical security.
Along with offering 24/7 cloud storage to unlimited users with automated privacy compliance, these approaches show potential for the company to boost accessibility to video intelligence whilst making the technology easier to use, more effective, and less expensive. Substantial funding comes off the back of Spot AI's position as the fastest-growing video intelligence company, with 17 industries under its belt
Freddie
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Insights
41% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Oct 2024
$31m
LATE VC
Nov 2022
$40m
SERIES B
Total funding: $93m
Company benefits
- Long-term career growth and achievement opportunity
- Medical, dental and vision coverage
- 401K with employer match
- 14 weeks of paid parental leave
- Learning and development opportunities
- Remote flexibility
- Work from home stipend to set-up home office
- Unlimited PTO
Company HQ
Los Altos, CA
Leadership
Tanuj Thapliyal
(Co-Founder)Hardware Program Engineer at Meraki, Inc. from 2011 to 2013. Co-founder of Mellow Research from 2015 to 2017.
Rish Gupta
(Co-Founder & CEO)Experience as Co-founder and CEO of Letsintern.com from 2010 to 2016. Senior Product Manager for Samsara, Inc. from 2018 to 2019.
Sud Bhatija
(Co-Founder & COO)Chief of Staff for Ecofirst Services Limited from 2011 to 2015. Experience as Head of Growth for Uptake, Zinier, and Simpa Networks.
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