
Director, Software Engineering, Innovation Lab
Lytx, Inc.
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Diego • Arizona • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $207,000 - $261,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Define and develop competencies that include technical strategy, application modernization, engineering and innovations, digital transformation, AI & ML, IoT, tech due diligence.
- Hire, mentor, lead and motivate a team of purpose driven Engineers.
- Must be able to go as deep as necessary to validate design and technology directions and solve problems.
- Execute architectural design frameworks to ensure high quality information systems are delivered expeditiously.
- Research, study & be a student to industry trends and changes, competitive approaches, and available future technologies.
- Own and evolve product capabilities with a focus on native AI ground up, open-source solutions.
- Drive the technical vision, capabilities, and design of the product, transforming product strategy & business priorities to a short-term/long-term technology roadmap.
- Identify and champion key technology investments needed to build a sustainable & long-term competitive platform for existing or new product features and functions.
- Leverage knowledge to evangelize and place strategic bets in product investments.
Requirements
- BS Degree in CS, or similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
- 10+ years of prior experience leading or managing dynamic engineering teams.
- Experience with client facing solutioning and user research.
- 10+ years of full stack software development with a focus on AI.
- Experience with Large Language Models (LLMs), including both open-source and commercially available AI tools.
- Display a high degree of willingness and ability to understand a new business domain, a new product, the product's business and technical underpinnings.
- Ability to inspire your team to think outside the box as they deliver high quality software solutions.
- Ability to provide logical frameworks and data to support conclusions and ideas.
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, unstructured start-up like environment.
- Preferred: Experience in one or more specific IoT / embedded / (e.g. IP cameras), robotics/AV and real-time systems preferred.
Benefits
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- Health Savings Account
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Telehealth
- 401(k) and 401(k) match
- Life and AD&D insurance
- Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
- FTO or PTO
- Employee Well-Being program
- 11 paid holidays plus 1 inclusive holiday per year
- Volunteer Time Off
- Employee Referral program
- Education Reimbursement Program
- Employee Recognition and Appreciation program
- Additional perk and voluntary benefit programs
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Hard skills
AIMLIoTLarge Language Modelsfull stack software developmentapplication modernizationarchitectural design frameworksopen-source solutionsdigital transformationengineering
Soft skills
leadershipmentoringproblem-solvingteam motivationinspirationlogical reasoningindependenceadaptabilitycreativitycommunication
Certifications
BS Degree in Computer Science