Staff Software Engineer - Map AI Platform
Hivemapper is a decentralized mapping network that uses blockchain to reward contributors.
Maintainer signals as of 8/23/2026
Funding history
About Hivemapper
Hivemapper leverages a global community of map contributors equipped with dashcams to collect map data. This crowdsourced approach allows for frequent updates and coverage of areas often neglected by traditional mapping companies. The collected data is processed using computer vision and machine learning to generate highly detailed, accurate 3D maps that are accessible via Hivemapper's decentralized marketplace.
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Candidate Availability
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About the Role
You will drive the architecture, design, implementation, and evaluation of core AI systems and data platform that powers map data intelligence at scale. You will partner across the company to ensure systems remain adaptable to emerging opportunities, and you will help plan technical roadmaps while contributing to higher level technical strategy. You'll work on complex systems that learn patterns about map data all over the world, enabling continuous evolution of map data intelligence, semantic extraction, and QA at scale.
Requirements
- Experience building production critical systems used by 10s of thousands of users or more
- Deep backend experience with large scale data platforms, DBs, ETL, distributed systems, etc.
- Strong analytical skills in a relevant field like ML, math, statistics, quantitative economics, etc.
- Track record of leading and mentoring teams in successful projects
- Experience generating, augmenting, and managing large amounts of ML training data (nice to have)
- Experience integrating or training/fine-tuning ML CV vision models, VLLM models, etc. (nice to have)
- Familiarity with geospatial data, HD mapping, sensors fusion, ADAS or AV, etc. (nice to have)
- Experience scaling products or systems at hyper-growth startups (nice to have)
Responsibilities
- Drive architecture, design, implementation, and evaluation of core AI systems and data platform
- Partner across the company to ensure systems are adaptable to emerging opportunities
- Help plan technical roadmaps and contribute to higher level technical strategy
Benefits
- Medical, dental and vision benefits plus FSA
- Family leave
- 401(k) program
- Unlimited Flex PTO
- Commuter benefits
- Paid lunch