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Compound Eye

Compound Eye

High-resolution 3D perception for autonomous systems

Marketing Specialist

Full-Time
$85k - $130k/yr

+ Incentive Stock Options

Mid
Remote in USA
Remote

Remote within the United States, with quarterly visits to Redwood City, California and additional travel for conferences or customer demos. Must work core Pacific Time hours.

No H1B Sponsorship

About the job

Requirements
  • 3-5+ years of B2B marketing experience in a lean technology startup environment as a team of one or with similarly scoped autonomy.
  • Experience marketing to institutional or enterprise B2B buyers with exposure to procurement-heavy, longer sales cycles.
  • Prior experience providing market or buyer insight to leadership.
  • Prior experience learning complex technical products quickly and translating them into credible content for technical and general audiences.
  • Prior experience operating in a fast-moving environment with frequent product releases or campaign shifts.
  • Ability to manage and follow through on multiple projects with competing deadlines using asynchronous tools.
  • Proficiency with marketing analytics tools such as Google Analytics or HubSpot to track performance and report on results.
  • Ability to work core Pacific Time Zone business hours while working remotely within the United States.
Responsibilities
  • Partner with leadership to develop and maintain brand strategy, ensure consistency across materials and channels, and plan participation in conferences and events.
  • Partner with the CEO and Sales to understand the defense buyer landscape, competitive positioning, and industry trends, and translate findings into actionable marketing decisions.
  • Lead a full redesign of the website by coordinating with designers and developers.
  • Create pitch decks, one-pagers, and product collateral to enable Sales.
  • Write clear, compelling copy for customer-facing sales materials and external marketing channels.
  • Produce and project-manage concept videos.
  • Manage and track the company’s social media presence, focusing on LinkedIn and defense industry channels.
  • Plan and manage participation in industry conferences, including logistics, materials, and follow-up.
  • Manage relationships with external marketing and advertising agencies.
Desired Qualifications
  • Familiarity with federal, Department of Defense, or defense industry culture, procurement and proposal processes, and marketing language.
  • Product marketing experience.
  • Experience developing case studies and testimonials.
  • Email marketing experience.
  • Public relations and media relations experience.

About the company

Compound Eye provides 3D perception systems for autonomous vehicles and robots. Its core offering uses automotive-grade cameras to capture real-time 3D information about the surroundings, delivering ten times the resolution and range of many sensors while consuming less power. The product combines perception hardware and software to support applications from in-dash displays to fully autonomous operation. It differentiates itself by delivering high-resolution, low-power 3D sensing suited for automotive and robotics use cases, often through direct sales and licensing to manufacturers and developers of autonomous systems. The company’s goal is to improve the safety and efficiency of autonomous systems by enabling more accurate and energy-efficient perception.

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

Grant

Total Funding

$9.6M

Headquarters

Palo Alto, California

Founded

2014

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What believers are saying

  • Compound Eye won five Direct to Phase 2 SBIR awards by August 2026.
  • Army CATALYST funding reached $13.3 million in July 2025, validating GPS-free navigation demand.
  • Open roles in 2026 show active field testing across automotive, agriculture, healthcare, and defense.

What critics are saying

  • Revenue depends on pilots, SBIR grants, and integrations; automotive conversion cycles remain brutal.
  • Mobileye, lidar vendors, and in-house OEM stacks attack the same autonomy budget.
  • Army funding and defense work can crowd out automotive commercialization, leaving Compound Eye existentially niche.

What makes Compound Eye unique

  • VIDAS uses automotive-grade cameras for real-time dense 3D, updated August 29, 2026.
  • The DevKit provides depth, semantic segmentation, and 6DoF odometry from standard hardware.
  • Compound Eye targets lidar-like perception without proprietary sensors, cutting integration complexity for OEMs.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Disability Insurance

Life Insurance

Home Office Stipend

401(k) Company Match

Remote Work Options

Paid Holidays

Stock Options

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

16%

1 year growth

16%

2 year growth

0%
SBIR.gov
Sep 13th, 2026
Awards | SBIR

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Automotive News
Aug 8th, 2022
Compound Eye launches VIDAS development kit

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Automotive sensor startup Compound Eye has unveiled a VIDAS development kit, allowing automakers and suppliers to test the system that creates lidarlike imaging for less cost.