Staff Software Engineer, Hayden AI
$230.5-299.7k
+ Offers Equity + Offers Bonus
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AI-powered smart traffic enforcement platform
Open for applications
AI-powered smart traffic enforcement platform
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$230.5-299.7k
+ Offers Equity + Offers Bonus
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To harness the power of computer vision to transform the way transit systems and other government agencies address real-world challenges.
Role
Who you are
- This role requires deep expertise in computer vision and/or robotics algorithms that are deployed on the edge/cloud
- Advanced degree (MS or PhD) in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or a related field
- 10+ years of relevant experience in building and deploying perception systems; experience in automotive or robotics domains is a plus
- Deep expertise in one or more of: robotics, state estimation, computer vision, or applied machine learning
- Extensive experience leading large, complex, production-grade systems end-to-end
- Expert-level proficiency in modern C++, including experience with real-time and/or embedded systems
- Proven track record of technical leadership and architectural ownership across multiple projects or teams
- Experience scaling systems from prototype to production in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
- Strong ability to influence without authority and drive alignment across teams
- Demonstrated mentorship and ability to raise the bar for engineering quality across an organization
What the job involves
- As a Staff Software Engineer on the Perception team, you will be a key technical leader, defining and driving the long-term vision and architecture for our perception systems in forthcoming pilots, directly influencing Hayden’s mission and roadmap for business expansion
- You will be responsible for setting the technical direction and standards for the team, architecting complex, scalable, and robust end-to-end perception and robotics systems for deployment on real-world hardware, and ensuring their successful integration into Hayden’s core product platform
- This is a C++ software engineering position demanding both hands-on technical mastery and significant architectural and systems leadership
- You will operate with complete technical ownership over major system components, mentoring junior and senior engineers, driving complex cross-functional initiatives, and making critical trade-off decisions that balance bleeding-edge innovation, system reliability, performance, and long-term maintainability across the entire Perception stack
- Spearhead the architectural design, implementation, and long-term ownership of next-generation perception systems, ensuring seamless transition from research prototypes to robust, scalable production solutions
- Champion best practices in software development, delivering high-performance, meticulously tested, and maintainable C++ code optimized for heterogeneous edge and robotics computing platforms
- Architect and optimize high-throughput, real-time perception pipelines, setting the technical direction for advanced techniques in object detection, tracking, and sophisticated sensor fusion
- Drive the strategic selection, adaptation, and integration of state-of-the-art Machine Learning (ML) and Computer Vision (CV) models, including the development of novel, proprietary models tailored to complex, large-scale Hayden-specific problems
- Provide technical leadership in highly ambiguous and complex problem domains, defining the technical roadmap and consistently striking the optimal balance between rapid iteration for R&D and the rigorous requirements for productization and scale
- Act as a key technical liaison, collaborating strategically with Product leadership and setting technical standards across cross-functional Engineering organizations
- Define and significantly contribute to foundational shared infrastructure, tooling, and architectural patterns, scaling pilot initiatives into core, mission-critical product capabilities
Our take
Cities around the world are dealing with clogged bus lanes, blocked stops, and traffic violations that slow down public transit and put people at risk. It's a huge problem that most cities face, but one that's often hard to monitor or enforce effectively.
Hayden AI is tackling this problem with its smart, bus-mounted cameras powered by AI. They automatically detect when vehicles block bus lanes or stops, helping cities gather real-time data and tacke action to imprvoe safety and traffic flow. Already in use in cities like New York, LA, and now Barcelona and Braga, it's a neat idea and one that's keeping buses moving and riders safe.
Its work is more than just ticketing, it's about making cities smarter, greener, and safer for everyone and its been making big moves. It just wrapped up its pilot in Portugal that revealed nearly 8,000 violations in just three months, and launched the largest automated enforcement project in Europe in Barcelona. With over $193M raised, the company is certainly growing fast and turning head in the govtech space.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Aug 2022
$4m
LATE VC
Sep 2020
$35m
SERIES B
Total funding: $52.7m
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Vaibhav Ghadiok
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously a Robotics Engineer at Nixie Labs, Head of Mapping at NAUTO, and Navigation & Perception Lead at Visible Sensors.
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