Why this role stands out
This role offers significant career growth as you'll lead a critical engineering team and work directly with company leadership, shaping the future of AI-powered video security. You'll thrive here if you have a strong technical background, a passion for innovation, and a desire to mentor and build high-performing teams. Apply now to make a real impact at a rapidly scaling company!
Quick overview
Job description
At Coram AI, we’re reimagining video security for the modern world. Our cloud-native platform uses computer vision and AI to help businesses stay safe, make smarter decisions, and move faster; from real-time alerts to seamless clip sharing and multi-site visibility.
You’ll be joining an ambitious, fast-moving team that values clarity, craftsmanship, and impact. Every person here has a voice, ships meaningful work, and helps shape how AI can make the world safer and more connected.
The Role
Lead our entire California engineering team as the engineering leader for our Sunnyvale office. Your team owns critical parts of our edge AI platform, cloud infrastructure, and customer-facing engineering. This is a hands-on technical leadership role: you'll set direction and grow the team, but stay close to the code through architecture, review, and debugging. You'll start managing the engineers, growing significantly within a year as we scale 2–3x, and work directly with the CTO, CEO, and Product.
What We're Looking For
Reached Staff / very senior IC level and spent a couple of years there before moving into management (typically after ~4–5 years engineering).
Current or prior experience managing engineers (Tech Lead Manager or Engineering Manager).
Deep strength in at least one of: distributed / real-time systems (e.g. C++), robotics / AI, or HPC.
Time inside an established top-tier engineering culture with exposure to how a 50–100+ person org operates.
A strong hiring track record and a high bar for what "great" looks like.
Still genuinely hands-on and motivated by ownership, impact, and shaping the product.
We're on a mission to transform a $50B+ legacy industry by bringing the power of cutting-edge multimodal LLMs and computer vision to real-world security and operations. From firearm detection to intelligent access control, our AI-native platform turns every camera and sensor into a smart system that enhances safety, efficiency, and awareness.
Founded by Ashesh Jain (ex-Lyft Level 5, PhD Cornell) and Peter Ondruska (ex-Lyft, PhD Oxford), Coram AI is backed by Ansa Capital, Battery Ventures, Mosaic, 8VC and Up Partners, have raised over $65M, and were named to the CB Insights AI 100 as one of the most promising AI companies in the world. If you're excited to work on mission-critical AI that makes an impact in the real world, we’d love to meet you.
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