Lead Engineer

Mission

LENS’s mission is to end traffic accidents. We partner with Public Safety Agencies who use LENS to detect pre-accidents to prevent accidents before they happen. By using LENS, Public Safety Officers detect hazards, which include Disabled Vehicles, Objects on the Road, and even Pedestrians on the Freeway, to prevent accidents and save lives.

Role

You seek transformational change. You do not accept the status quo that accidents are an accepted inevitability, or that they just happen. Instead, you believe when the root cause of an accident can be known in advance, the accident can and should be prevented. You work with fellow Preventers that share this core belief, and together use LENS to prevent accidents and save lives.

CBS LA recently did a three minute TV feature that succinctly captures what LENS is doing with Public Safety Agencies in one of the largest traffic capitals in the world:

CHP LA Communications Center using AI to prevent accidents before they happen

You will increase the scale and speed of preventing accidents working closely with our Co-Founder and CTO to architect, build, operate, and scale LENS. The LENS Platform consists of five layers: the Data Feed Framework, LENS Specific AI, two other layers, and the application layer at the top. The first LENS native application, LENS Detect, is a real-time streaming application used by Public Safety Agencies to detect pre-accidents and dispatch Officers to prevent accidents and save lives. You will build out an engineering function that is highly collaborative, operates with AI-scale leverage, and can execute with both speed and quality. You will deliver highly reliable (five nines), scalable, and secure software that meets the demands of mission-critical Public Safety Agencies. You are leading by example - building, and guiding the team to build, with the end in mind, as well enabling others to reach their highest creative frequency and impact. You work with fellow builders and Preventers who share your commitment to excellence and your conviction that technology and AI should amplify human judgment, not replace it. Years from now when you reflect on the number of lives Officers and Dispatchers saved using LENS, you will know you had a massively disproportionate role in generating that meaningful and lasting impact.

Your impact on the LENS mission is measured by:

• Pre-accidents detected, accidents prevented, and lives saved through the infrastructure, systems, and product capabilities you design, build, and operate

• Pre-accidents detected, accidents prevented, and lives saved through the operational, educational, and technical frameworks you create, improve, and scale across agencies

• Pre-accidents detected, accidents prevented, and lives saved through breakthrough capabilities you invent or assemble that fundamentally expand what is possible in ending traffic accidents

Values & Principles

The LENS team is a culture built on a shared set of values and principles. Our culture is defined not by what we say, but by what we do (credit to Ben Horowitz’s book). Some of our values that define what we do are: (1) Prioritize what fulfills the mission the fastest, (2) Elevate each other to our highest & best frequency, (3) Systems-thinking, end to end. A few of our principles include: (1) we learn, practice, and master. (2) we continually absorb what enables operators of LENS to make an impact, and make that even better, (3) we focus to supercharge our impact. Our Mission, Values, and Principles together give us a clear, shared, and continually evolving framework to keep enabling more Public Safety officers to prevent accidents and save more lives.