Software Engineer, AI

Who we are

Founded by engineers from Stanford, Cisco Meraki, and Samsara, Spot AI is one of the fastest‑growing video AI companies in the U.S. We transform standard cameras into powerful AI tools that elevate safety, security, and operations for businesses nationwide. In just four years, we have processed more than 1 billion hours of video and ingest more daily new videos than You Tube. Our industry‑leading video AI agents are changing physical operations and defining what video AI can accomplish for physical environments.

Spot AI challenges and disrupts the $30 billion video surveillance market with a plug‑and‑play camera‑agnostic solution that expands use cases beyond traditional security. Our approach has fueled rapid adoption across 17 industries, powering nearly 1,000 businesses and over 70,000 camera feeds. We have attracted almost $100 million in investment from top venture firms including Redpoint, Scale Venture Partners, Bessemer, Step Stone, and Qualcomm.

• Spend Strategically – maximize resources and minimize waste.
• Push for Progress – make decisions, move fast, and celebrate action.
• Obsession Over Customers – remove friction and add value to create delight.
• Trust Our Team – respect, trust, and collaboration are non‑negotiable.
• Act Like Owners – say what we’ll do and do what we say, taking pride and responsibility in our work.
• Never Stop Having Fun – we’re creating something epic, and we’re having fun doing it.

• You are self‑motivated and accountable. You excel with ownership and autonomy, producing high‑quality outcomes with minimal direction.
• You are a balanced visionary. You contribute to strategy while appreciating details and building meaningful, hands‑on contributions.
• You are a humble expert with strong expertise in AI and new ideas, focusing on getting it right in a team setting.
• You strive for the next level, ready to stretch your impact, influence, and mentor others.
• You bring rich AI knowledge, with 2+ years of hands‑on experience in AI, ideally with video processing.
• You are a creative thinker who thinks outside the box to solve customer problems with few resources.
• You bring high‑scale technical excellence, understanding software design, architecture, big‑data pipelines, systems design, scalability, code quality, and data/model design.
• You’re a debugging and operational excellence expert, adopting observability tools, tackling unfamiliar codebases, and developing runbooks.
• You bring examples of AI Engineering projects that can scale.

As a key member of Spot AI, you will advance our capabilities by 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. You will set standards in AI reliability and performance, ensuring our product suite consistently delivers high‑impact outcomes.

• Working on and thinking about the latest models across multiple domains (e.g., Dinov2, CLIP, GPT‑4o/Gemini) and applying them to real‑world physical problems.
• Working with a data stream of over 200k data points and embeddings per second, turning it into actionable insights with fast, accurate queries.
• Helping democratize and educate customers and teammates about foundational models, sharing the vision of what AI can do.
• Working with a global, distributed edge‑cloud system that processes millions of hours of video a day.
• Advancing our product capabilities with cutting‑edge AI techniques to transform video data into powerful solutions.
• Designing and implementing AI‑driven features across new and existing products, focusing on scalability and tangible value for diverse industries.
• Diving into complex challenges in video intelligence to bring actionable insights to businesses.
• Collaborating closely with cross‑functional teams to build tools and frameworks that set a new standard for AI performance and reliability.
• A culture that celebrates hard work, great outcomes,…