Engineering Manager, Platform

📋 Description

• • Coram AI is at the forefront of revolutionizing video security for the modern era, leveraging a sophisticated cloud-native platform powered by advanced computer vision and artificial intelligence. Our innovative solutions empower businesses by enhancing safety, enabling smarter decision-making, and accelerating operational velocity. This is achieved through a suite of capabilities ranging from real-time threat detection and alerts to seamless video clip sharing and comprehensive multi-site visibility.
• • As an Engineering Manager for the Platform team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the core infrastructure that underpins our distributed edge systems. These systems operate under exceptionally demanding constraints, requiring meticulous attention to latency, memory efficiency, and unwavering reliability. This is a unique opportunity to lead a team of highly skilled engineers focused on the intricate challenges of low-level systems, high-performance networking, complex concurrency models, and the nuances of edge computing.
• • Your responsibilities will extend to defining the strategic technical roadmap for the Platform team, working in close collaboration with product management and senior leadership to align technological development with business objectives. You will be instrumental in architecting and guiding the design of our distributed edge systems, ensuring they meet stringent performance benchmarks for latency and memory usage.
• • This role demands a proactive approach to managing multiple concurrent projects, adeptly balancing the demands of ongoing development with the critical need to address production issues and adapt to evolving customer requirements. You will be a key figure in establishing and maintaining robust engineering processes, with a strong emphasis on observability, comprehensive testing strategies, and ensuring the utmost stability of our production environments.
• • A significant aspect of your role will involve conducting thorough design and code reviews, fostering a culture of technical excellence and ensuring the delivery of highly reliable and performant systems. Furthermore, you will be expected to dive deep into C++ or other low-level system code when necessary, providing critical technical leadership to unblock complex issues and maintain project momentum.
• • You will oversee the development and optimization of inter-process communication (IPC) mechanisms, messaging systems, and real-time data pipelines, ensuring efficient and reliable data flow across our distributed architecture. A core part of your mandate will be to build and nurture a high-performance team of systems engineers through effective hiring, dedicated mentorship, and continuous professional development.
• • Ultimately, you will cultivate an environment that champions ownership, technical rigor, and disciplined execution, empowering your team to achieve ambitious goals and contribute significantly to Coram AI's mission. This position offers the chance to make a tangible impact on mission-critical AI applications that are transforming a substantial legacy industry, bringing cutting-edge multimodal LLMs and computer vision to real-world security and operational challenges.