Software Engineering Director, Infrared Data Products
South Park Commons is a community and early-stage venture firm that helps talented founders and technologists move from an idea (-1) to a company (0). It runs a no-cost, no-equity residency program for ideation and exploration, and provides $1M to $10M in funding for founders ready to build venture-scale companies.
About South Park Commons
South Park Commons operates a talent-dense community of technical founders, researchers, and domain experts who test ideas, find collaborators, and build conviction on what to build and how to build it. Its offering spans two stages: a six-month Residency with no cost or equity focused on ideation and exploration, and Funding of $1M to $10M for members ready to build venture-scale companies. Beyond capital, SPC provides learning forums on frontier topics (embodied AI, reinforcement learning, energy-efficient computing, AI in biotech), live programming with industry leaders, partner collaboration from a team of former founders and operators, social scaffolding to counter the isolation of early company building, and up to $1M in credits and perks from partners like Anthropic, OpenAI, Microsoft, GCP, and AWS. SPC has spaces in San Francisco, New York, and Bengaluru, and its community has produced companies such as Render, Luma Labs, Pilot, Comun, Anthropic, Unit21, and Profound.
Skills
About the Role
You will manage an organization of managers, data scientists, and software engineers, leading them in delivering an ultra-low latency, high-reliability, massive volume data processing pipeline for data from the FireSat constellation, enabling timely updates to customers around the world. You will identify and drive improvement of the metrics needed to deliver the performance customers need from image processing pipelines, and create long-term technical strategy and roadmaps to drive new capabilities and products from infrared and visual imagery. You will train, teach, and model best practices in software engineering and data science, and communicate clearly with customers, partner teams, and the company to drive clarity on the team's capabilities. You will drive the vision and mission of the team in harmony with the broader company mission, establish operational objectives, policies, procedures, and work plans, and be accountable for the team's successful and predictable delivery against goals and objectives.
Requirements
- BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science, Computational Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, Data Science or a related area
- 5 years of prior software management experience
- Experience building and deploying high volume, ultra-low latency data processing pipelines, ideally with computer vision algorithms
- Experience with geospatial data engineering principles and tooling
- Expert understanding of software engineering processes such as software estimation, DevOps, testing, etc.
- Excitement about working in a fast-paced, innovation-focused startup environment
- Expertise in negotiation and managing technical decision-making
- Experience writing high-performance data processing in C++ or Python
- Expertise with both classical and modern neural-network-based computer vision techniques
- Experience delivering imagery products to government organizations
- Experience with image processing pipelines from remotely sensed data
Responsibilities
- Manage an organization of managers, data scientists, and software engineers
- Lead the team in delivering an ultra-low latency, high-reliability, massive volume data processing pipeline for FireSat constellation data
- Identify, ensure measurement of, and drive improvement of key performance metrics for image processing pipelines
- Create long-term technical strategy and roadmaps for new capabilities and products from infrared and visual imagery
- Train, teach and model best principles of software engineering and data science
- Communicate clearly and effectively to customers, partner teams and the company as a whole
- Drive the vision and mission of the team in harmony with the company's broader mission and values
- Establish operational objectives, policies, procedures and work plans and delegate assignments
- Be accountable for the team's successful and predictable delivery against goals and objectives
Benefits
- Equity compensation
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401k retirement plan
- Short & long term disability and life insurance
- Three weeks paid vacation for new employees
- 12 paid holidays
- Unlimited sick time
- Paid parental leave