Software Engineering Manager - Search
Core
Lead the AI-powered search and computer vision team to build backend systems enabling face/person search, license plate recognition, and agentic LLM/VLM experiences across billions of frames.
Role type
Senior Engineering Manager (Search & Applied AI)
Builds
Production search services, inference pipelines, vector databases, and agentic AI features for video security and access control.
Domain
Physical AI, Video Security, Computer Vision, Large Language Models
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Team leadership, strategic roadmap ownership, cross-functional partnership, agentic & generative AI implementation, embeddings & retrieval optimization, model evaluation, service ownership, migrations, scalability & performance tuning, reliability & quality assurance
Preferred skills
Foundation model integration, fine-grained CV pipelines, physical security/IoT domain knowledge, CI/CD for ML services
Technologies
Python, Go, Java, C++, gRPC, Kafka, AWS, OpenSearch, Turbopuffer, FAISS, Milvus, pgvector, LLMs, VLMs
Responsibilities
Recruit and mentor backend/ML engineers, own end-to-end search/ML roadmap, partner with Product/Design/Research teams, drive agentic AI and LLM migrations, oversee vector search stack evolution, manage production services and migrations, optimize scalability/performance, lead on-call and incident response, expand test coverage, define telemetry and SLOs
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with management responsibilities
