VP of R&D/Engineering (Computer Vision | Video Surveillance | Agentic AI)
Hands-On VP R&DAgentic AI • Computer Vision • Video Intelligence 📍 Tel Aviv/Caesarea (Hybrid) 👔 Reports directly to CEO ⚡ Immediate Hiring 💰 Competitive Compensation + Equity Why we exist The way we interact with live feed video is broken. Most video in the world is never understood. Every day, billions of cameras capture trillions of hours of footage. Yet organizations still rely on humans to find what matters. We are building an AI Operating System for Video — a platform that can watch, understand, investigate, and act on video at scale. Today, we work with enterprise customers, governments, and critical infrastructure organizations. Tomorrow, we aim to define how the world interacts with visual information. We're backed by top-tier investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, supported by government investors, have paying customers, proven market demand, and a world-class team. Now we're looking for the engineering leader who will help us build the next chapter. What we actually look for We're NOT looking for a manager. We're looking for the person who can make thousands of cameras think. You will lead the technical future of the company and its entire R&D. Pioneer engineering and research. You will recruit highly exceptional people. You will make architectural decisions that impact customers, products, infrastructure, and company strategy. You will be expected to operate at founder speed. You will be expected to challenge assumptions. You will be expected to build. A lot. This role is roughly 50% hands-on. If your ideal day consists mostly of meetings, this is probably not the right role. The problems you'll solve Building agentic systems that reason over large-scale video. Scaling AI pipelines across thousands of live video streams. Turning research breakthroughs into production systems - and FAST. Deploying mission-critical AI environments where downtime is not an option. Designing systems that run across cloud, edge, on-premise, and air-gapped environments. Creating engineering leverage that allows a small team to outperform much larger organizations. Building the team that will get us there. The next 20X company. The technical leadership You have deep, hands-on expertise in most of the following areas: Leading engineering organizations while remaining capable of contributing technically through architecture reviews, code reviews, debugging, and hands-on development when needed. Computer Vision systems, including VLMS, Embedding models, object detection, tracking, multi-camera tracking, ReID, video understanding, and real-time inference pipelines. Large-scale video infrastructure, including RTSP/WebRTC/HLS streaming, video ingestion, processing, storage, and analysis across hundreds or thousands of concurrent streams. Building and scaling production-grade AI systems, from research to serving customers at scale. Modern Agentic AI architectures, LLM orchestration, AI agents, and SOTA open-source models. High-performance AI infrastructure, including GPU inference, optimization, distributed workloads, NVIDIA ecosystem, Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud/on-prem deployments. Designing mission-critical distributed systems with strict requirements around latency, reliability, scalability, and fault tolerance. Architecture & Technology Own architecture across AI, infrastructure, video pipelines, and deployment environments. Make strategic technology decisions that scale with company growth. Establish engineering standards without creating bureaucracy. Drive technical excellence across the company. Execution Translate business priorities into engineering execution. Create clarity in ambiguous environments. Drive delivery with urgency. Remove obstacles. Push teams toward outcomes rather than activity. Reliability & Customer Trust Obsess over latency, uptime, and customer success. Build systems that continue working when conditions are imperfect. Especially when conditions are imperfect. Cross-Functional Leadership Work directly with customers, product, operations, and company leadership. Represent technical credibility in enterprise and government engagements. Help shape company strategy beyond engineering. Bonus points for: Experience in: Video surveillance platforms/VMS Government deployments Air-gapped environments Compliance certification FedRAMP-like environments You will hate this role if you're: Looking for a comfortable corporate environment. Need perfect requirements before acting. Prefer consensus over decisions. Want to manage without building. Starting to solve the problem before you fully understand the problem itself. Optimize for meetings over outcomes. Why Join Us Because very few companies get the opportunity to redefine an entire category. The way organizations interact with video will fundamentally change - and we shape it. A16Z joined us. Would you?