VP of Engineering

LENS • Los Angeles, CA

4h

About The Position

LENS's mission is to end traffic accidents by detecting hazards to prevent them before they happen. LENS Detect scans CCTV feeds on highways to identify hazards in real-time. Public Safety agencies and Departments of Transportation receive alerts on the LENS Detect dashboard about Disabled Vehicles, Stalled Big Rigs, and Pedestrians on Freeway. A dispatcher reviews and validates the detection, and then dispatches an officer to the scene to assist. This role is for someone who seeks transformational change and believes that accidents can and should be prevented when the root cause can be known in advance. The VP of Engineering will work with fellow 'Preventers' who share this core belief, using LENS to prevent accidents and save lives.

Requirements

• Building foundational frameworks and services.
• Complete 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 Kubernetes.
• 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 to advance a meaningful mission-driven cause.
• Delivering highly reliable (five nines) software that meets the demands of real-time agencies in Public Safety, as well as long-term organizations in Transportation — using software, services, and data in service of reducing harm and improving lives.

Responsibilities

• Working closely with our Co-Founder and CTO to architect, build, operate, and scale the LENS Platform, applications, and data services.
• Recruiting, hiring, and leading & motivating an engineering organization that will likely double five times in the next 12 months.
• Designing engineering organizations that accelerate with compounding impact as they scale, rather than slow with bureaucracy.
• Establishing engineering craftsmanship as a cultural standard, developed through the LENS Programming Guide and LENS Interface Guidelines.
• Architecting for scale from the start with design-thinking within every part of the system to solve difficult architectural decisions that simplify everything built forward.
• Building what is pure, simple, and clean while maintaining completeness.
• Measuring daily, monthly, and annual impact through pre-accident detections, accidents averted, and lives saved.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed