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Founding Software Engineer, Platform & Infrastruct

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Founding Software Engineer, Platform & Infrastruct in USA new

  • Cox Exponential
  • Full time
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  • Palo Alto, CA

Responsibilities

  • Build and run GPU infrastructure for video understanding on AWS, including model serving, batching, scheduling, and cost optimization.
  • Scale ingestion and indexing pipelines for large video libraries, including decoding, transcoding, frame, audio, on-screen text processing, and embeddings.
  • Develop search and retrieval systems and the APIs that customers integrate with.
  • Build connectors to customer video sources such as S3, media asset management systems, and camera exports, as well as result destinations such as APIs and webhooks.
  • Deploy DeepFrame in SaaS, single-tenant AWS, and on-premises environments while owning reliability and observability.
  • Join customer technical meetings, answer integration and security questions, and translate customer needs into core product requirements.
  • Own the technical delivery of the first US customer pilot and ship US-driven features or connectors to the shared product.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience building production infrastructure or backend platforms with substantial distributed-systems experience.
  • Strong Python skills and experience with a systems language such as Go, Rust, or C++.
  • Production experience running and optimizing GPU model inference or ML pipelines on cloud GPUs, with AWS preferred.
  • Experience with CUDA, TensorRT, Triton, or similar GPU technologies, plus containers and Kubernetes.
  • Experience moving and processing large volumes of data or media reliably and cost-effectively.
  • Ability to explain technical tradeoffs to customer engineers.
  • Authorization to work in the United States by the start date.
  • Preferred experience includes ffmpeg, codecs, GStreamer, NVIDIA DeepStream, NVDEC, vector databases, retrieval, ranking, foundation-model serving, evaluation pipelines, VPC and on-premises installations, SSO, and security reviews.
  • Working proficiency in Japanese and experience collaborating across time zones, especially Japan, are additional advantages.

Benefits

  • Based in the Bay Area with in-person work in Palo Alto at least three days per week.
  • Occasional travel to customers is required.
  • Works closely with the CTO, CEO, and engineering and research teams in Tokyo.
  • The role offers founding-team ownership of the first US pilot and US-driven product development.

Cox Exponential

Cox Exponential delivers innovative solutions that accelerate business growth through data-driven strategy and cutting-edge technology. Our team blends analytical rigor with creative problem‑solving to help clients navigate complex markets and unlock new opportunities. We are committed to fosteri...

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