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title: 'Member of Technical Staff - Machine Learning at Plix'
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# Member of Technical Staff - Machine Learning at Plix

- **Company:** Plix
- **Location:** San Mateo, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2025-01-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/plixai/am9icG9zdDoKT6LvFb16yxxS0Cjk9yrq

## Job description

## About Plix

Plix is a seed-stage startup with Stanford roots, supported by Samsara, Verkada, and Sequoia Capital. We are building the world’s first intelligent body cameras to provide real-time situational alerts to improve safety, security, and operational efficiency.

Position Overview As a Founding Member of our Technical Staff, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the architecture, implementation, and deployment of our AI-driven vision. You’ll lead efforts to deploy and fine-tune state-of-the-art machine learning models and computer vision pipelines, build robust ML infrastructure, and ensure we remain at the forefront of multimodal AI advancements. We value quick experimentation, collaborative problem-solving, and the ability to transform vision into product. This role is ideal for someone passionate about mentoring and fostering a growth mindset in the early stages of Plix’s journey.

## Responsibilities

- Deploy machine learning and computer vision models on cloud infrastructure and fine-tune for performance
- Design scalable infrastructure for model versioning, monitoring, and automated updates to ensure reliability and performance
- Analyze data, refine prompts, and improve model accuracy for video and image processing tasks
- Research the latest multimodal and computer vision advancements to integrate into our workflows
- Foster a collaborative engineering culture and help to define best practices

## Requirements

- Strong programming skills and proficiency in Python
- Experience with libraries such as OpenCV, and frameworks like TensorFlow or PyTorch for vision-related tasks
- Experience deploying and optimizing pre-trained machine learning and computer vision models
- Video Analysis: Experience in video pre-processing, object detection, activity recognition, and other computer vision techniques
- Collaboration & Communication: Strong communication skills with the ability to mentor, foster collaboration, and translate vision into practical solutions

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience working with or deploying video and/or multimodal large language models (LLMs) for tasks such as captioning, summarization, or question answering
- Experience working with or deploying transcription models for video or audio data (e.g., Whisper, Speech-to-Text APIs)
- Knowledge of deploying and managing GPU-backed systems for large-scale ML and computer vision workloads
- Interest or experience in management roles, with a focus on mentoring and team building

## About Plix

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Plix provides an AI-powered body camera platform that combines livestreaming, GPS tracking, and real-time incident alerts to increase safety and efficiency for frontline workers.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed round in September 2023)
- **Headquarters**: Emerald Hills, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2023 (estimated based on seed round date)
- **Founders**: Johann Hauswald (CEO and Co-Founder), Francisco Romero (Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI-powered security and workforce safety technology (Software Development)
- **Target customers**: B2B – organizations with frontline workers in armed/unarmed security, secure transport, retail, healthcare, government, transportation, warehousing, critical infrastructure, repossession/towing, residential/commercial real estate, and parking enforcement.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "To increase the safety, security, and efficiency of the workforce that serves our communities and businesses."

## Products & Services
- **X1 Body Camera**: Hardware device with 20-hour battery, 12-hour continuous recording, livestream, GPS, indoor localization, real-time AI incident alerts, and a built-in Report Agent. No docking required; instant categorized uploads.
- **Plix Platform (SaaS)**: Central command dashboard for live guard status, GPS shifts, event summaries, and proactive incident detection. Includes AI-powered analytics (Safety & Hero Inbox), automated reporting (voice-to-report in ~45 seconds), and workforce intelligence (hotspot mapping, resource allocation).
- **Integrations**: Seamlessly connects with workforce management systems for coordination, compliance, and reporting.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – Seed round (Sep 2023) with 2 investors (names not publicly available). Annual Revenue – Not publicly available.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not disclosed (seed investors unnamed). Partners implied through integrations with workforce management systems.
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - 2,500+ frontline workers protected
  - 100K+ real-time alerts triggered
  - 1,500+ schools, homes, HOAs, municipalities, and businesses monitored
  - Customer claims: 85% reduction in complaints, 82% reduction in report generation time, 3x faster resource allocation
  - Headcount grew 46.2% YoY (from ~10 to 16 employees)

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-first approach**: Proactive detection even if staff forget to press record; automatic incident flagging and categorization.
- **All-in-one platform**: Combines hardware (body camera), livestream, GPS, AI alerts, automated reporting, and workforce analytics in a single system.
- **Voice-to-report agent**: Cuts reporting time from 15 minutes to 45 seconds.
- **Proven ROI**: Reduces false claims (use-of-force, harassment), lowers administrative overhead, and improves compliance verification.
- **Scalable deployment**: Scan-and-go assignment, no docking required, instant cloud uploads.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expand verticals**: Already serving security, retail, healthcare, government, transportation, warehousing, real estate, and more – likely to deepen penetration in each.
- **AI-driven efficiency**: Continuously improve automated reporting, incident detection, and workforce intelligence to replace manual processes.
- **Operational visibility at scale**: Provide command centers and field leaders with real-time dashboards and hotspot analysis to optimize resource allocation.
- **Growth through hiring**: Actively recruiting for roles like Member of Technical Staff – Machine Learning (as of 2025), indicating investment in AI/ML capabilities.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven culture**: “We celebrate the everyday heroes who keep our world running.” Focus on making frontline work safer and more visible.
- **Early-stage startup (~16 employees)**: Opportunity to have significant impact, wear multiple hats, and shape product and culture.
- **Growth trajectory**: 46% headcount growth YoY, expanding customer base across multiple industries – a fast-moving environment.
- **Distributed team**: Workforce spans United States and India, suggesting flexibility in location (remote/hybrid likely, but not explicitly stated).
- **Technical challenges**: Work on AI/ML for real-time video, edge computing, and safety-critical systems.
- **Values recognition**: “Safety & Hero Inbox” highlights employee recognition through AI-captured moments – aligns with a culture of appreciation.

## Sources
1. [plix.ai](https://www.plix.ai/)
2. [plix.ai/company](https://www.plix.ai/company)
3. [plix.ai/solution](https://www.plix.ai/solution)
4. [linkedin.com/company/plixai](https://linkedin.com/company/plixai)
5. [jobs.gem.com/plixai](https://jobs.gem.com/plixai/am9icG9zdDoKT6LvFb16yxxS0Cjk9yrq)

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