Hayden AI

People Operations

• Manage seamless onboarding and offboarding processes that reflect our culture and values.
• Coordinate with IT, Finance, and hiring managers to ensure all onboarding/offboarding logistics, including equipment, system access, and communications, run smoothly.
• Maintain accurate employee data in HR systems, ensuring compliance with company policy and employment regulations.
• Support audits, reporting, and documentation related to employment, immigration, and compensation compliance.
• Assist in administering compensation programs, including salary reviews and benchmarking efforts.
• Partner with People Leadership and Finance to ensure alignment with Radford leveling and market data.
• Plan, coordinate, and execute company-wide and team-level events, both virtual and in-person, that strengthen connection and culture.
• Lead logistics and coordination for All Hands meetings, including scheduling, agenda management, content collection, and post-event follow-up. Partner with internal stakeholders to manage event logistics, communications, and budgets.
• Support recognition and engagement initiatives that celebrate employee milestones and foster belonging.
• Lead or contribute to People Ops projects that improve efficiency, data accuracy, and the employee experience.
• Create and maintain process documentation, workflows, and playbooks.
• Identify opportunities for automation and system optimization.

People Ops Specialist

Communications

• Draft, edit, and produce a wide range of materials for both Hayden AI and our partners.
• Assist with planning, creating, and scheduling timely and engaging content for Hayden AI’s social media channels.
• Promote and develop Hayden AI’s brand in the technology sector by securing industry-related publicity opportunities.
• Coordinate with cross-functional internal teams and Hayden AI customers to create communications materials.
• Support public relations efforts by drafting press releases, pitching stories, and working with reporters to secure media coverage.

Marketing and Communications Specialist

Engineering Manager

• Oversee the entire perception system development life cycle, from problem definition to deployment and ongoing improvement.
• Lead a team of computer vision and perception engineers to develop and refine the system in a hands-on manner.
• Spearhead the development of robust computer vision algorithms for object detection, tracking, semantic segmentation, and classification.
• Champion the development and training of deep learning models for complex urban scene perception and real-time analysis.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (cloud/device) for seamless integration and monitoring of perception models.
• Analyze data to identify performance bottlenecks and opportunities for enhancing the perception system.
• Foster automation in the improvement cycles of deep learning models used within the perception system.
• Communicate technical findings and insights effectively to stakeholders across the company to drive performance improvements.
• Utilize data visualization tools to present complex information clearly for informed decision-making.

Senior Engineering Manager, Deep Learning

• Lead a high-performing team developing advanced mapping, localization, and SLAM solutions for embedded camera systems
• Oversee the research, development, and deployment of large-scale mapping and localization solutions
• Shape the technical roadmap and set technical direction and project priorities aligned with organizational goals
• Drive high-impact, cross-functional projects from conception through deployment, coordinating with research, hardware, and product teams
• Provide technical guidance on algorithm design, system architecture, and implementation; ensure best practices in software development and performance optimization
• Foster a culture of innovation, technical rigor, and collaboration across the team
• Develop and maintain project roadmaps, milestones, and technical documentation
• Partner with senior leadership to define long-term strategies for localization, state estimation, and multi-sensor calibration
• Review and approve designs, architectures, and implementations to ensure technical excellence and scalability
• Lead recruitment, hiring, and performance management to grow a world-class engineering team

Engineering Manager, State Estimation

Full-stack Engineer

• Hayden AI: harness computer vision to transform transit systems and government agency workflows
• Build next-generation product enforcing School Bus Stop safety; develop edge-based vehicle detection and tracking AI models
• C++ software engineering generalist role delivering high-quality C++ code running on edge devices
• Build and improve accuracy of ML/CV models and refine open-source models for Hayden-specific problems
• Collaborate with Product Management to translate customer needs into software solutions
• Work in an ambiguous, fast-paced startup environment during organizational scale-up
• Deliver well-designed and well-tested code that can be shared across the organization
• Deliver rigorously tested, bullet-proof C++ code
• Iterate on real-time vehicle tracking and license plate reading systems
• Refine and optimize cloud-side image and video processing
• Deep dive into performance optimization, focusing on algorithms for the Nvidia Jetson architecture
• Enhance infrastructure and tooling for performance analysis to ensure efficient development cycles

People Ops Specialist

Marketing and Communications Specialist

Senior Engineering Manager, Deep Learning

Engineering Manager, State Estimation

Staff Software Engineer, Edge Applications