VP of Engineering

Role & Responsibilities

• Working closely with our Co-Founder and CTO to architect, build, operate, and scale the LENS Platform, applications, and data services.
• Recruiting, hiring, and leading & motivating an engineering organization that will likely double five times in the next 12 months.
• Designing engineering organizations that accelerate with compounding impact as they scale, rather than slow with bureaucracy.
• Establishing engineering craftsmanship as a cultural standard.
• Architecting for scale from the start with design-thinking within every part of the system to solve difficult architectural decisions that simplify everything built forward.
• Building what is pure, simple, and clean while maintaining completeness.
• Making sure to measure daily, monthly, and annual impact through pre-accident detections, accidents averted, and lives saved.

Mindset, Principles, And Skills & Experience

• Adaptability drives evolution. You believe constant change, with underlying principles, is how organizations learn the fastest and shape the future.
• Tools are society’s greatest levers. We make tools that are force multipliers for our capabilities to help others.
• The ability to balance both at the same time is what enables innovation and scale, not just one.
• Perfect product. Perfecting product now in design, development, and release is what enables those using LENS to make the most impact.
• Invest the most time where it makes the most progress. We evaluate every potential action and priority by the 80/20 rule, asking if it will make an 80 or 20% impact on the objective?
• Begin with the end in mind. We identify the future we want to create, and work backwards to identify the sequence of frameworks, components, and pieces that need to assemble to turn that idea into a reality.
• Building foundational frameworks and services. Complete hands-on capabilities working cross-functionality to design, build, and evolve software and services for event-driven components using Python, Go, TypeScript, Rust, LangGraph, Kafka, gRPC, and Kubernetes.
• Assemble components to form an observable, low-latency Vision & Perception pipeline using OpenTelemetry GenAI, PyTorch, OpenCV, TensorRT, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Directly leading the recruiting, hiring, and scaling up of a highly creative, collaborative, and rapidly-executing engineering organization.
• Being a senior management member, working alongside other senior operators to advance a meaningful mission-driven cause (if you have not found this yet, and now found it with us that is also great!)
• Delivering highly reliable (five nines) software that meets the demands of real-time agencies in Public Safety, as well as long-term organizations in Transportation — using software, services, and data in service of reducing harm and improving lives.