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title: 'Software Engineer, Annotation Systems at Obvio'
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# Software Engineer, Annotation Systems at Obvio

- **Company:** Obvio
- **Location:** Toronto, Canada
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-20
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/obvio/b2fe3c1c-bf76-416d-9a86-fbfbf83122e1

## Job description

## About Obvio AI

Each year, more than 40,000 people in the U.S. leave home and never make it back due to traffic crashes. At Obvio, we believe these deaths are preventable. We deploy solar-powered, AI-assisted cameras to enforce traffic laws where pedestrians are most vulnerable, automating enforcement in ways that traditional systems cannot. Our approach has already led to a 50% reduction in reckless driving in early partner cities.

Founded by the team behind Motive's AI dashcam and backed by Bain Capital Ventures and Khosla Ventures, we are building the intelligence layer for safer streets globally.

## About the Role

Obvio deploys AI-assisted cameras to make streets safer. We're looking for a Software Engineer to join the backend team that powers our annotation workflows. These systems sit at the core of our machine learning feedback loops and operational pipelines. You'll work across product, ML, and ops teams to build resilient, observable, and secure systems that translate ambiguous requirements into elegant software.

## What You'll Do

- Help design and build distributed systems that support high-throughput data review and annotation pipelines
- Build systems that prioritize performance and reliability under real-world load
- Apply strong security and privacy practices, including fine-grained access control, secure data handling, and auditable workflows
- Translate cross-functional requirements into clean APIs and backend abstractions
- Collaborate with product, ML, and operations to streamline efficiency and feedback loops
- Participate in design reviews and contribute to architectural decisions on your team's systems
- Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code and give thoughtful code review feedback to peers

## What We're Looking For

- 3–5 years of backend engineering experience
- Experience building and maintaining production distributed systems
- Comfort with operational practices — you write code with observability, alerting, and failure recovery in mind
- Working knowledge of security principles, including least privilege and secure transport/storage
- Ability to take reasonably well-scoped requirements and turn them into solid design and interfaces, asking good questions when things are ambiguous
- A collaborative mindset — you give and take feedback well and enjoy working closely with teammates

Bonus Points

- Familiarity with human-in-the-loop systems, labeling tools, or ML data pipelines
- Experience working in a fast-paced startup environment

## Why This Role

- Build backend systems that directly power road safety at scale.
- Work on high-throughput pipelines that sit at the core of our ML feedback loop — your code has real, visible impact.
- Join a small, experienced team where you'll grow fast and work closely with senior engineers.

## Why Obvio

- Your work will help save lives and improve road safety
- Series A of $54M
- Fast-moving startup environment with meaningful ownership
- Competitive compensation and early-stage equity

Obvio is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Obvio considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law. Obvio is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please let your recruiter know.

## About Obvio

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Obvio provides AI-powered, context-aware traffic safety cameras that help cities detect reckless driving, educate drivers, and enforce traffic laws.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: San Carlos, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Ali Rehan and Dhruv Maheshwari

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Traffic safety technology, public safety, GovTech
- **Target customers**: Municipalities, law enforcement agencies (B2G)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "There are no accidents. All crashes are preventable. Our mission is to curb reckless driving and save lives on our roadways." [obvio.ai](https://www.obvio.ai/)

## Products & Services
- **[Obvio AI Camera Pylon]**: A solar-powered, brightly colored camera pylon installed near intersections. On-device AI detects stop sign violations, speeding, crosswalk violations, illegal turns, unsafe lane changes, and distracted driving. The footage is processed locally; only violation clips are uploaded. The technology is provided free to municipalities, and Obvio shares citation revenue with the government. [techcrunch.com](https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/04/obvios-stop-sign-cameras-use-ai-to-root-out-unsafe-drivers/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised – $31.4M (as of mid-2025) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/obvio-inc)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Bain Capital Ventures (led Series A), Khosla Ventures, Homebrew, Pathlight Ventures, Success Venture Partners [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/obvio)
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 328.6% year-over-year to 41 employees; active in five Maryland cities with plans to expand; 14 open job postings; Virginia’s stop sign & crosswalk enforcement law went into effect July 1, 2026, creating tailwinds. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/obvio-inc)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Privacy-first design**: On-device AI processing means only violation footage leaves the device; all other footage is deleted after ~12 hours. The company explicitly avoids building a surveillance panopticon. [techcrunch.com](https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/04/obvios-stop-sign-cameras-use-ai-to-root-out-unsafe-drivers/)
- **Founding team experience**: Previously built one of the most widely deployed AI dashcam platforms in commercial transportation (at Motive), protecting over 200,000 trucks and reducing crash rates by 24%. [obvio.ai/careers](https://www.obvio.ai/careers)
- **Full-stack approach**: "We build hardware, write code, pass laws, and pour concrete." The company handles hardware, software, policy, and community engagement. [obvio.ai/careers](https://www.obvio.ai/careers)
- **Patented AI technology**: Holds patents in artificial neural networks, classification algorithms, and image processing. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/obvio)

## Strategic Focus
- Expand beyond the initial five Maryland cities using the $22M Series A funding. [techcrunch.com](https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/04/obvios-stop-sign-cameras-use-ai-to-root-out-unsafe-drivers/)
- Focus on changing driver behavior through warnings and deterrence rather than revenue generation, building community trust. [techcrunch.com](https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/04/obvios-stop-sign-cameras-use-ai-to-root-out-unsafe-drivers/)
- Continue hiring across engineering, operations, sales, and government relations to scale deployments.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values include "Ownership Mindset," "First Principles Thinking," and "Relentless Execution." The team describes itself as "boots on the ground, laptops in hand" – a mix of hardware, software, and policy work. [obvio.ai/careers](https://www.obvio.ai/careers)
- **Work model**: Mix of onsite and remote roles (currently listing Senior Product Designer – onsite in California, UX Designer – remote in California, Project Manager – remote in California). [obvio.ai/careers](https://www.obvio.ai/careers)
- **Impact**: Directly contributes to reducing traffic fatalities and making streets safer; employees work on AI, computer vision, embedded systems, and public policy.
- **Team growth**: Rapid headcount expansion (328% YoY) signals strong momentum and career advancement opportunities.

## Sources
1. [obvio.ai](https://www.obvio.ai/)
2. [obvio.ai/careers](https://www.obvio.ai/careers)
3. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/obvio)
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/obvio-inc)
5. [techcrunch.com](https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/04/obvios-stop-sign-cameras-use-ai-to-root-out-unsafe-drivers/)

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