Founding AI Backend Engineer
Pakket · Posted Apr 13, 2026
- San Francisco, California, United States
- 3–6 years
Early hire on the technical team to keep the system running and ship fast backend features for a warehouse operations platform.
Compensation
Competitive salary, meaningful equity
Responsibilities
- Debug and improve the computer vision pipeline
- Own backend reliability with FastAPI, PostgreSQL, async SQLAlchemy, and the edge-to-cloud data pipeline
- Build and ship customer-facing features such as alerts, dashboards, historical playback, and zone monitoring
- Manage edge server deployments at warehouse sites
- Containerize and harden the system using Docker for consistent deployments across edge hardware
Requirements
- Nice to have: Computer vision libraries
- Nice to have: GPU compute
- Nice to have: RTSP video streams
- Nice to have: edge hardware deployment
- Nice to have: real-time systems