Engineering Manager - Map AI Platform
About the job
- Experience building production-critical systems used by at least thousands of users.
- Deep backend experience with a large-scale data platform, database, extract-transform-load processes, distributed systems, or related technologies.
- Strong analytical skills in a relevant field such as machine learning, mathematics, statistics, or quantitative economics.
- A track record of leading and mentoring teams on successful projects.
- Drive the architecture, design, implementation, and evaluation of core AI systems and the data platform.
- Partner across the company to ensure systems are adaptable to emerging opportunities.
- Help plan technical roadmaps and contribute to higher-level technical strategy.
- Experience with geospatial data, high-definition mapping, sensor fusion, advanced driver-assistance systems, or autonomous vehicles.
- Experience managing, generating, and processing large amounts of geospatial and imagery data.
- Experience integrating or training and fine-tuning machine-learning computer-vision models or very large language models.
- Experience scaling products or systems at hyper-growth startups.
About the company
Hivemapper builds a global, crowdsourced mapping network using dashcam data. It collects geospatial imagery from approved contributors who upload video frames and rewards them with incentives, delivering refreshed map data via the Map Image API. The data is gathered through a permissionless, decentralized network, allowing broad coverage and lower refresh costs, and clients like logistics, insurance, governments, and platforms access it through APIs for routing, risk assessment, urban planning, and location services. Its goal is to provide continuously updated, affordable global geospatial data by combining community participation with a scalable API.
Company Size
11-50
Company Stage
Late Stage VC
Total Funding
$52.9M
Headquarters
Palo Alto, California
Founded
2015
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Bee Maps raised $32 million in October 2025, funding broader device rollout and AI pipelines.
- May 2026 coverage-map incentives targeted under-mapped roads, accelerating freshness across priority regions.
- USDC rewards from August 2026 reduce wallet friction, likely improving contributor conversion and retention.
What critics are saying
- Hivemapper still depends on token incentives; if rewards fall, driver supply collapses quickly.
- Volkswagen and other enterprise logos hide concentration risk; one contract loss crushes revenue.
- Google, HERE, and Mapbox can replicate features faster, making Hivemapper a fragile middleman.
What makes Hivemapper unique
- Hivemapper's Bee cameras turn ordinary drivers into a continuously refreshed street-level map network.
- Enterprise APIs now package imagery, map features, and AI event videos for customers like Volkswagen.
- USDC rewards and HONEY incentives tightly align contributor behavior with coverage gaps and freshness.
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Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account
- Parental Leave
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Unlimited Paid Time Off
- Commuter Benefits
- Meal Benefits