Head of Engineering

Our vision at Vivid Machines is to revolutionize agricultural production to help solve food security globally. Our initial focus is on helping fruit and vegetable farmers improve the quality and quantity of produce they can generate on existing acreage while also improving sustainability. To do this, we are building cutting-edge technology, including real-time vision systems and state-of-the-art AI models, all while delivering a seamless experience to farmers. 

As a Senior Engineer, you will have the opportunity to work on challenging problems throughout our software stack, designing and developing robust and scalable solutions across embedded systems, cloud, mobile, and web. You’ll be collaborating with our multidisciplinary team to create an amazing product and solve one of the world’s most important problems. 

Do you love solving complex problems, and want to see your work applied in real life? We are looking for people who are self-directed and driven by a desire for excellence as much as by curiosity and a desire to learn by solving previously unsolvable problems.  

Who we are and what we do 

Vivid Machines is an exciting venture-backed start-up. We’re building cutting-edge technology to help fruit and vegetable farmers with yield management, and detection of pests, diseases, and nutrient deficiencies.  We have an aggressive goal to bring our products to the world quickly. 

Our vision is to revolutionize agricultural production to help farmers solve food security globally! 

We value excellence, integrity, curiosity and passion, people who are open-minded then decisive, and the ability to iterate quickly and deliver. We’re innovators on a mission! 

What we’re looking for 

The ideal candidate can architect and develop scalable solutions while considering performance, security, and stability. Good knowledge of various disciplines will let you work on software that extends across our entire data pipeline, from our sensor hardware to the front end. If you are interested in growing in a multidisciplinary engineering environment, this is the position for you! 

Lead-level experience deploying and scaling a production-grade IoT or hardware-integrated product. 

Experience designing scalable backends (likely GCP/AWS) capable of handling high-volume raw data ingestion for ML training. 

The ability to "speak" across the stack—discussing FPGA/GPIO constraints with hardware engineers one hour and React/Flutter state management with web/mobile devs the next. 

Experience hiring, mentoring, or managing high-performing engineering teams. 

Experience working directly with product owners to translate customer needs (dashboards/analytics) into technical roadmaps. 

Experience with MLOps—specifically the "Data Flywheel." This includes managing how data moves from the edge to the cloud, is labeled, trained, and redeployed back to the device. 

Experience with systems programming, a good understanding of memory safety, concurrency, and performance optimization for edge devices. 

Familiarity with deploying vision models on constrained hardware (e.g., NVIDIA Jetson/Tegra platforms). 

Bonus points 

Specific experience with computer vision in "dirty" environments (variable lighting, dust, vibration) is a massive plus. 

Familiarity with mobile development frameworks. 

Experience securing IoT devices, managing OTA (Over-the-Air) updates safely, and implementing end-to-end data encryption. 

Experience with high-performance analytical databases for local or cloud-side data processing. 

People from all backgrounds can succeed at Vivid Machines. We believe differences and diversity help build excellent businesses. 

Why do you want to work at Vivid Machines? 

As an early employee of a VC-backed company, you will have the opportunity to help shape the company's vision, culture and products, 

You can help build an amazing product in a company that plans to change the world, 

You will be offered competitive compensation,  

Competitive benefits package. 

Open, friendly, collaborative company culture, 

Company-sponsored team events and retreats, 

Free drinks and snacks. 

Where to from here? 
 
We want to ensure it’s a good fit on both sides, so you get a job you love, and we offer you a place you’re proud to work at. 

Vivid Machines is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values inclusion and diversity.