Spot AI · 3 weeks ago
Staff Software Engineer, AI
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$175K/yr - $240K/yr
6+ years expSpot AI is one of the fastest growing Video AI companies in the U.S., transforming standard cameras into powerful AI tools. The Staff Software Engineer, AI will lead the design and integration of AI-driven features to enhance products and drive innovative solutions for various industries.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Enterprise SoftwareHardwareInternet of Things
Responsibilities
You’ll play a critical role in advancing Spot AI’s capabilities, using your AI expertise to drive innovative solutions for businesses with physical environments—from manufacturing plants to car dealerships
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
By setting standards in AI reliability and performance, you’ll ensure Spot AI’s product suite consistently delivers high-impact outcomes
Qualification
Required
You bring rich AI experience
You have a strong background in AI, ideally with video processing experience
You understand classic deep learning techniques, from YOLO to transformer models to linear classifiers
You also have experience with the latest AI foundation models, from embeddings to LLMs and prompt engineering
You are self-motivated and accountable
You excel with ownership and autonomy, producing high quality outcomes with minimal direction and oversight
You have strong intuition on what's most important to work on, and can focus on the most critical items
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 and nuanced perspectives on the latest AI technology, while staying open to new ideas and new ways of doing things
You focus on getting it right in a team setting, rather than being right
You strive for the 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 a creative thinker and problem solver
You naturally think outside the box to solve new sets of customer problems, even with few resources
You have a keen eye and technical frameworks for setting an AI technical direction based on customer context
You bring high-scale technical excellence
You deeply understand software design, architecture, big-data processing pipelines, and best practices on systems design + scalability, code quality, and data/model design
You appreciate the finer details, such as edge model optimizations, vector indexes and how they work, or how to design a maintainable data schema
You've designed and led complex systems, shaped multi-team architectures, and created frameworks that prevent defects and improve validation across products
You're a debugging and operational excellence expert
You adopt observability tools, tackle unfamiliar codebases, and develop resources like runbooks to prevent issues
You have an eye for impending technical issues or optimization opportunities, and architectural improvements that could be made to increase overall engineering productivity
You're a technical leader
You understand the skill and personal strengths of team members, effectively mentoring them and placing engineers into the projects that make them and the company successful
You bring 6+ years in software engineering, with significant expertise in AI plus a strong track record in high-quality system delivery
Benefits
Meaningful early stage equity
Medical, dental and vision plan options with significant company contributions towards premiums
Company paid short- and long-term disability plans
Company paid life insurance
401K with Employer Match
Company
Spot AI
Spot AI is an AI platform that turns cameras into video AI agents, linking existing workflows with video data.
51-200 employees
H1B Sponsorship
Spot AI has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your
reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
Represents job field similar to this job
Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (4)
2024 (5)
2023 (4)
2022 (2)
2021 (3)
2020 (2)
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$93MKey Investors
Scale Venture PartnersRedpoint
2025-12-17Series Unknown
2024-10-31Series B· $31M
2022-11-17Series B· $40M
Leadership Team
Rish Gupta
Co-founder and CEO
Recent News
2025-07-09
2025-06-27
Company data provided by crunchbase