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Sauron · 1 month ago

Vice President of Software Engineering

San Francisco

Full-time

Onsite

Director/Executive

10+ years exp

Sauron is a company focused on enhancing residential security through innovations in autonomous robots and self-driving technology. They are seeking a Vice President of Software Engineering to lead the development of their software platform, providing technical leadership and driving best practices while collaborating with various teams to deliver a secure user experience.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Physical SecuritySecuritySensor

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Architecting, building, and scaling the entire software platform, including firmware for embedded devices, machine learning model deployment pipelines, and our cloud infrastructure

Providing technical leadership and mentorship to the software team, driving best practices in design, development, and testing

Leading the long-term functional engineering team development roadmap to ensure we have the skillsets, capabilities and workflows to enable successful execution of current and future programs

Collaborating with hardware, product, and operations teams to define requirements and deliver a unified, secure, and reliable end-to-end user experience

Recruiting, hiring, and onboarding top-tier engineering talent to grow the organization efficiently and effectively

Qualification

Embedded Systems developmentMachine Learning implementationTechnical leadershipCloud infrastructureHigh performance systemsTeam buildingRecruiting talentMentorship

Required

10+ years of engineering experience, with 5+ years in a senior leadership role (Director or VP) at a fast-growing, technically complex company

Direct, hands-on experience with the unique challenges of our core pipelines: either Embedded Systems development (e.g., real-time OS, low-latency communication, resource optimization) or Machine Learning implementation (e.g., model quantization, on-device inference, MLOps)

Expertise in building systems that require high performance and careful memory management

Proven track record of shipping highly reliable, commercial products that combine hardware and software

Company

Sauron

Sauron develops a home security platform that integrates AI, advanced sensors, and human monitoring to identify and respond to threats.

Founded in 2024

San Francisco, California, USA

11-50 employees

https://sauronhome.com/

H1B Sponsorship

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Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship

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Trends of Total Sponsorships

2025 (2)

Funding

Current Stage

Early Stage

Total Funding

$18M

2024-12-05Seed· $18M

2024-02-08Seed

Leadership Team

Maxime Bouvat-Merlin

Chief Executive Officer

Recent News

TechCrunch

Sauron, the high-end home security startup for “super premium” customers, plucks a new CEO out of Sonos

2025-12-29

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