Sr. Software Engineer (SafePointe)
About The Position
SoundThinking is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to accelerate development of SafePointe®, our AI-based concealed weapons detection system designed for high-throughput, free-flow screening. SafePointe combines passive magnetic sensing with an advanced 3D camera and NVIDIA-powered edge processing to detect metallic firearms while minimizing operational friction. This role is for someone who is an expert in Python, highly capable of deploying and operating cloud-based products, and thrives in rapid prototyping—turning ambiguous problems into shippable, reliable services.
Requirements
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including ownership of production cloud services
- Expert-level Python (APIs, services, async/concurrency, testing, performance profiling)
- Working proficiency in C++ on Linux (ability to read, debug, and make small-to-medium contributions in a mixed C++/Python edge codebase)
- Familiarity with gdb, profiling/perf basics, and debugging concurrency/memory issues on edge systems
- Strong experience deploying cloud-based products on AWS/Azure/GCP (or equivalent), including:
- Containers (Docker), CI/CD, and environment management
- Observability (metrics/logs/tracing), reliability practices, incident response
- Experience designing RESTful APIs and service integrations (FastAPI/Flask/Django acceptable)
- Strong database fundamentals (SQL; Postgres preferred) and production data modeling
- Comfort collaborating with embedded/sensor engineers and reasoning about sensor/DAQ constraints (sampling rate, latency, clock sync, data integrity) to design robust software interfaces.
- Experience working with time-series telemetry and building diagnostic/analysis tools (e.g., Python/numpy/pandas) to support root-cause analysis.
- Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills; ability to move from prototype to durable production systems
- Experience with event-driven systems / streaming (e.g., queues, pub-sub, Kafka/Kinesis, Celery)
- Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/CDK), Kubernetes, service security (authN/authZ), and secrets management
- Experience building dashboards/ops consoles for configuration and diagnostics
- Familiarity with edge/IoT architectures and secure device communications
- Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript and modern web frameworks (React/Next.js) for building internal tools or dashboards
- Prior work in physical security, safety, or other high-reliability domains
Responsibilities
- Edge-to-Cloud Integration
- Sensor Systems Collaboration (Interface to Sensor Engineering)
- Rapid Prototyping & Iteration
- Cloud Product Engineering (Python-first)
- Engineering Excellence
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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