Company Name: Safari AI

Job Details: 3,Locations,Remote,Senior,level

Job Url: https://builtin.com/job/data-engineer-flink-java/3796240

Job Description: About Safari AIThe Company's vision is to Automate Action of the leading companies in the physical economy, from Entertainment, QSR's, Retail and beyond. It's using computer vision AI to Measure, Alert and provide AI-generated Recommendations at the operations of leading companies such as Merlin/Legoland, 7-11, Tanger Outlets, Manhattan Mini Storage, Charlotte Hornets, Calgary Flames, and more. In the near future, Safari AI will use this data and to suggest how its clients can optimize its SOPs to generate more revenue and create more valuable guest and staff experiences. Safari AI is seed-funded by leading venture capital investors and expects to raise its Series A in 2025. Leadership & CultureSafari AI is co-founded by Ali Vahabzadeh & Kaiwen Yuan, two leaders who have meaningful exits under their belts and have managed large, high-performing Go To Market and Engineering teams. The company is headquartered in NYC where the GTM team is based and works from the office five days a week, while Engineering is distributed between North America and Brazil.  About You And How You Succeed At Safari AIYou're excited about building a product and creating a market that hasn't been done before. You have a strong bias toward action when you are stuck but are not afraid to ask for help when you need to. You're high agency, and eager to test new ways of doing things, taking advantage of the freedom and culture an early stage startup can afford you. You're eager to lead the  company's engagement with category leaders in a variety of industries, solving some of their biggest challenges.We are looking for all kinds of talents, from Individual Contributor to Tech Lead Manager.What you will be working on regardless the rolesSet technical direction for streaming data processing engineHands-on implementation of streaming data processing enginePractice engineering best practices for system design, coding, documentation and communicationWork closely with engineering team members and operation team to identify new priorities and communicate it wellContribute to engineering development process improvementsWhat you must haveproficient in Flink and Javaproficient in messaging queue frameworks such as Kafka, Pulsar, RabbitMQ, etc.depth belief in our mission and strong enthusiasm in AI / data5-8 years software individual contributor experiencesexperiences in startups and enterprisesproficiency in at least one of the following public cloud: AWS/GCP/Azureproven record of building a complex service from scratch to productionexperiences in delivering incremental features and maintaining reliabilities of a production servicegood understanding in best practices in software development lifecycle (SDLC) and security complianceNice-to-Havesproven experiences of building a team and mentoring skillsPhD training in computer science or similar areasprevious startup founder experiencesProficient in react / vue, and CRUDProficient in embedded CV and related framworks, such as TensorRT, Gstreamer, etc.Product manager leadership in AI/ML based productsWhat we provideOpportunity to shape an early-stage, mission-driven startup and revolutionize how Enterprises use Computer VisionProfessional growth at a fast-growing, venture-funded start up with a proven founder and leadership teamCompetitive salary and meaningful equity for early team membersUnlimited vacation daysGenerous health benefits (Health, Vision, Dental)401k for US team membersBrand new, top of the line hardware and whatever else you need to help you winWe are not considering any agent/agency and only matched candidates will be reached out. Why bet on Computer Vision and Safari AI? 1. Huge opportunity hiding in plain sight: leveraging already-installed cameras to automate and real-time action on operational data2. Large chasm between customer knowledge and market availability, i.e. customers don't know what is available in the market...yet.3. No clear industry leader in computer vision; everyone is small and unbranded (i.e. no Amazon or Google in the room to compete with)4. Very modular, allowing Safari AI and its customers to invent whole new use cases on a regular basis5. Developed the tech and data pipelines over three years and invested several million dollars and is now ready to scale6. Already the market leader in enterprise CV by working with industry leaders with billions in revenue