Director of Engineering
Posted on 11/9/2023
INACTIVE
Picogrid

11-50 employees

AI-powered monitoring platform
Company Overview
Picogrid is a defense technology company on a mission to build a common platform for autonomous systems. Picogrid connects fragmented technologies including visual surveillance, radar, and electronic warfare to enable new capabilities across sensors, artificial intelligence, and command and control systems.
AI & Machine Learning
Aerospace

Company Stage

Seed

Total Funding

$2.2M

Founded

2020

Headquarters

El Segundo, California

Growth & Insights
Headcount

6 month growth

0%

1 year growth

54%

2 year growth

325%
Locations
El Segundo, CA, USA
Experience Level
Entry
Junior
Mid
Senior
Expert
Desired Skills
Python
Sales
UI/UX Design
React.js
NoSQL
Jest
TypeScript
AWS
REST APIs
Product Design
CategoriesNew
Software Engineering
Requirements
  • 5+ years leading engineering teams in a fast-paced startup environment
  • Experience building products that touch both hardware and software (e.g. autonomous cars, robotics, unmanned systems, etc.)
  • Experience (or interest in) building climate tech, defense tech, or related fields
  • Experience building high-volume data pipelines
  • Open-source contributions or other projects
  • Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
Responsibilities
  • Build, lead, and mentor a team of hardware and software engineers
  • Provide technical guidance on system architecture, performance, scalability, security, etc.
  • Develop systems and processes to scale the performance of our engineering organization
  • Facilitate collaboration between adjacent teams in product, design, machine learning, sales, etc.
Desired Qualifications
  • Typescript-heavy cloud data platform
  • React + Redux UI
  • REST API
  • C/C++ and Python edge compute services and device firmware
  • DynamoDB (NoSQL)
  • Jest test runner
  • Infrastructure: Built on AWS with microservice-based architecture. Containerized services deployed on ECS and EKS.