Senior Systems Software Engineer, Spot AI
Firmware Engineering
$155-200k
+ Meaningful early stage equity
AI-driven video intelligence platform
Job no longer available
AI-driven video intelligence platform
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$155-200k
+ Meaningful early stage 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
- You are self-motivated and accountable. You excel with ownership and autonomy, producing high quality outcomes with minimal direction and oversight
- 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 with staying open to new ideas and new ways of doing things. You focus on getting it right rather than being right
- You strive for 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 are passionate about systems. You love building computer systems and improving software performance, excelling at troubleshooting technical software and OS issues with significant experience in Linux
- You’re an optimization enthusiast. You have a solid understanding of CPU and GPU architectures and thrive on making software faster, more reliable, and user-friendly
- You are performance-driven. You know how to benchmark software performance and have experience building infrastructure and tools to analyze and enhance system performance
- You bring at least 5 years of software development experience
What the job involves
- You’ll develop and optimize the next generation of Spot AI’s video intelligence edge devices, working from design through to final delivery
- You’ll focus on rapid prototyping, implementing new features, and building the infrastructure to support AI and video processing workloads
- By setting benchmarks and analyzing performance, you’ll help shape resilient and efficient systems that scale as Spot AI continues to expand
- Building video intelligence edge devices that handle complex video processing and AI workloads in real-time
- Leading end-to-end software development, including design, testing, and delivery
- Rapid prototyping to bring new product ideas and features to life
- Setting up benchmarks and analyzing performance data to improve system efficiency and reliability
- Solving the unique challenges of scaling systems from thousands to tens of thousands of edge devices
- 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
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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