Lead Software Engineer (Sensing Platform) | Viam · Teeming.ai
Viam
Viam provides a comprehensive platform designed to unlock AI, data, and automation capabilities within the physical world. This platform enables engineers across various disciplines to collaborate on…
Viam provides a comprehensive platform designed to unlock AI, data, and automation capabilities within the physical world. This platform enables engineers across various disciplines to collaborate on…
Core offering: Hardware‑agnostic cloud-native robotics and automation software platform
Headquarters: New York City
Latest disclosed funding: $30M Series C (Mar 3, 2025)
Company Overview
Problem Domain
Robotics, automation, and IoT software for integrating AI and data with physical devices and machines.
Founded
2020
Industry
Software Development
Tech Stack
AWS
Google Cloud
Next.js
Funding Track Record
Series B- 2024-03-26
$45,000,000
Brought total disclosed funding to $87M at time of announcement.
Series C- 2025-03-03
$30,000,000
Participation from Battery Ventures, Neurone, and other existing investors.
Investor Signal
“Participation and repeat investments from Union Square Ventures and Battery Ventures across rounds”
Founders
What we do
Join the Team
Lead Software Engineer (Sensing Platform)
On-SiteNew York, NY, US
On-Site • New York, NY, US
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This team owns the infrastructure that moves data from devices to the cloud and makes it usable across the Viam platform
That spans real-time streaming pipelines, backend services, and the platform APIs. Reliability, latency, and correctness here affect every solution built on Viam
The team works primarily in Go and C++. Reporting directly to the CEO
As Lead you’ll manage a team of 4-6 engineers, staying hands-on across technical leadership, development, and people management. Focused on backend platform challenges that power Viam
Set priorities and technical direction for the team
Lead the architecture of the end-to-end streaming pipeline from device to cloud
Drive the reliability and performance of the services and platform APIs
Own cross-team problems and take them to resolution
Communicate clearly on progress, tradeoffs, and risks to engineering leadership
Benefits
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