VP of Engineering

LENS Inc. • Los Angeles, CA

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About The Position

The VP of Engineering at LENS is a transformative role focused on preventing traffic accidents. LENS develops technology that detects hazards in real-time from CCTV feeds, alerting public safety agencies and Departments of Transportation to prevent accidents and save lives. The platform, LENS Detect, identifies issues like disabled vehicles and pedestrians on freeways, allowing for dispatcher review and dispatch of officers. The company's mission is to end traffic accidents by addressing their root causes proactively.

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 the 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.
• 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