Encord
Software Engineer, Physical AI
San Francisco
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 48 days ago
TypeScriptPythonReactFull-Stack DevelopmentGCPCloud PlatformsKubernetesMachine LearningPyTorchData EngineeringRoboticsProblem Solving
About the role
- You'll solve problems of large-scale efficient data transfer and storage, complex domain modelling, applying the latest machine learning models, and squeezing performance out of web browsers.
- You'll work with the biggest names in robotics and autonomous vehicles, and join a small, highly collaborative team at a crucial stage of accelerated development.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain high-performance frontend experiences, including rendering complex 3D scenes with thousands of objects at smooth frame rates
- Experienced: you've seen a lot and built a lot - personally developed and maintained multiple systems from scratch, with a deep understanding of the trade-offs involved in building reliable, performant software at speed
Requirements
- A team player: you contribute your best work and actively help others do the same - you enjoy levelling up those around you
Nice to have
- Strong full-stack engineering experience, with a particular strength in complex, high-performance frontend work
- Experience with 3D rendering, WebGL, or similar technologies for visualising spatial/sensor data is a strong plus
- Proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript
- experience with React a plus
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (GCP preferred) and containerised deployment (Kubernetes)
- Experience in robotics, autonomous vehicles, or Physical AI is a plus
Skills
- Backend: Python
- Frontend: TypeScript and React
- Deployment: Kubernetes
- Infrastructure: GCP
- Machine learning: PyTorch, CUDA, Ray
- Competitive salary, commission, and meaningful equity in a high-growth startup
- Clear, accelerated growth opportunities as the company scales rapidly
- Strong in-person culture: 4-5 days/week in our newly launched North Beach loft office
- Flexible PTO to fully recharge
- 18 paid vacation days in the U.S. plus federal holidays
- Annual learning & development budget
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
Compensation
- Competitive salary, commission, and meaningful equity in a high-growth startup
Company info
- Encord is the universal data layer for AI that helps 300+ AI teams train and run models on the right data. Our platform indexes, curates, annotates, and evaluates data across the full AI lifecycle, from development through production.
- Trusted by Woven by Toyota, AXA, UiPath, Zipline, and more. We're an ambitious team of 100+ working at the frontier of AI and have raised $60M in Series C funding from Wellington Management, CRV, Next47 and Y Combinator.
- The role
- We're building tools for the full Physical AI data stack - from data acquisition, through ingestion and curation at scale, to 3D rendering, annotation, and verification. You'll solve problems of large-scale efficient data transfer and storage, complex domain modelling, applying the latest machine learning models, and squeezing performance out of web browsers.
- You'll be a key driver of progress on a core part of our product, operating with a high degree of autonomy and crafting performant, reliable, and maintainable solutions at speed.
- Encord is the universal data layer for AI that helps 300+ AI teams train and run models on the right data.
- Our platform indexes, curates, annotates, and evaluates data across the full AI lifecycle, from development through production.
- Trusted by Woven by Toyota, AXA, UiPath, Zipline, and more.
- We're an ambitious team of 100+ working at the frontier of AI and have raised $60M in Series C funding from Wellington Management, CRV, Next47 and Y Combinator.
- We're building tools for the full Physical AI data stack - from data acquisition, through ingestion and curation at scale, to 3D rendering, annotation, and verification.
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