Back-end Developer, Autonomous Vehicles 🇺🇸 🇨🇿

ISEE AI is seeking Software Engineers to join the our team. Prior experience with robotics or simulation is not necessary.

About us

ISEE AI is an MIT spin-off company that develops artificial intelligence software for autonomous vehicles designed to drive reliably in busy industrial environments. We are backed by Founders Fund (SpaceX, DeepMind, etc.). Read more about ISEE on our website or in this TechCrunch article. Here is a video of the product.  Significant part of our core engineering is being done from Prague, Czech Republic and we are looking to expand. 

Role responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain our internal back-end applications supporting system operations and development. For example:

  • Command&control interface for our fleet of autonomous vehicles

  • Integration with our customers' information systems

  • Tooling allowing review of logs recorded by our vehicles and supporting 3-d visualization tools

• This will involve:

  • Designing and implementing APIs for both customer-facing and internal web applications used by the entire company

  • Coordinating among multiple stakeholder teams to identify needs and collect requirements for design

  • Rapidly prototyping and iterating upon designs to release widely-adopted services 

  • Creating efficient services to read and write data

  • Serving as the central point of contact and primary owner of one or more services

  • Forecasting development timelines and communicating status to leadership and stakeholders 

  • Leading prioritization efforts for feature requests, improvements, and bug fixes

  • Thoroughly testing code before deployment and applying development best practices

  • Ensuring backend applications are designed in a scalable manner to offer maximum uptime and availability

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of relevant full-time work experience

• Bachelor/Master Degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience

• Experience with building production applications with Python

• Experience working with multiple types of databases like PostgresSQL or DynamoDB

• Experience with AWS (Amazon Web Services)

• Proficiency with Git or comparable distributed version control tool

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to convey trade-offs and choices made

• Ability to write robust and easily-maintainable code

• Ability to troubleshoot issues that arise and bring them to quick resolution

• Passionate about self-driving vehicles and web development
  
  

Plus points

• Experience with IoT Data Streaming, e.g. using MQTT

• Experience with designing and implementing event-based architectures

• Experience with Kubernetes or modern cloud infrastructure practices

• Experience building systems that interact with connected IoT devices (like autonomous vehicles)

• Experience with handling a very high throughput of data

• Prior experience with FastAPI

• Proficient in BASH

• DevOps experience (AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, Docker, Helm Chart)

• Experience with Celery & Redis

What do we offer?

• Opportunity to build one of the first commercially deployed autonomous vehicles

• Learn from world-class engineering talent

• Learn about cutting-edge A.I. research during our weekly journal club  

• Very competitive compensation

• Flexible working hours 

• Ability to work either remotely or from Prague office space

• Freelance relationship (ICO) preferred