VP of Engineering

The role

The VP of Engineering will work with the Co-Founder and CTO to architect, build, operate, and scale the LENS Platform, applications, and data services. You will recruit, hire, and lead an engineering organization while establishing engineering craftsmanship as a cultural standard.

What you will do

• Work with the Co-Founder and CTO to architect, build, operate, and scale the LENS Platform, applications, and data services.
• Recruit, hire, and lead and motivate an engineering organization.
• Design engineering organizations that accelerate with compounding impact.
• Establish engineering craftsmanship as a cultural standard.
• Architect for scale using design-thinking to solve architectural decisions.
• Build pure, simple, and clean software while maintaining completeness.
• Measure daily, monthly, and annual impact through detections and lives saved.

Required qualifications

• Building foundational frameworks and services.
• 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 Kuberne
• 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.
• Delivering highly reliable (five nines) software for Public Safety and Transportation agencies.

About the company

LENS's mission is to end traffic accidents. LENS prevents accidents and saves lives by detecting hazards to prevent accidents before they happen.