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Senior Software Engineer, Events

Hayden AI

Company websitehayden.ai (Hayden AI, opens in new tab)

Base salary $175K  to $228K

Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in San Francisco, CA

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  • LocationSan Francisco, CA
  • WorkplaceHybrid
  • Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
  • Last checked (45 min ago) · observed since

About this job

About Us

At Hayden AI, we are on a mission to harness the power of computer vision to transform the way transit systems and other government agencies address real-world challenges.

From bus lane and bus stop enforcement to transportation optimization technologies and beyond, our innovative mobile perception system empowers our clients to accelerate transit, enhance street safety, and drive toward a sustainable future.


What the job involves

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Platform - Cloud Events team, you will ensure that data captured by Hayden’s devices is properly validated and assessed by the powerful ML models that run in the Cloud. In this role you will level up our ML operations by enabling a more efficient model improvement lifecycle. You will work closely with the Product Team, the Technical Program Managers, and our partner engineering teams that build the edge software and make sense of our sensor data. We’re looking for someone who loves leveling up their team through code review, improving architecture, and thinking systemically. This position is based in San Francisco and it follows a hybrid schedule with at least 3 days in-office per week.

Key Responsibilities

Below are your primary responsibilities. These represent the core areas where you’ll make an impact. As part of a rapidly evolving team, we look forward to your impact expanding over time.

  • Maintain a high level of code quality through code review and documentation

  • Optimize machine learning operations with robust systems and by collaborating across teams

  • Expand capabilities of event pipeline to satisfy both general and client specific needs

  • Reduce cost of doing business with by optimizing usage of cloud resources, especially GPUs


Required Qualifications

The qualifications below outline the experience and skills most relevant to success in this role. We recognize that skills and potential come in many forms, and we welcome diverse experiences that advance our mission.

  • Experience: 7+ years of overall experience, 2+ years building high throughput backend services

  • Core Skills: Professional experience with Golang and/or Python, distributed systems thinking, ML Ops knowledge a plus

  • Personal Attributes: Collaborative teammate and code reviewer, detail oriented system designer

  • Education: BS in Computer Science or related field

Nice to Have: Professional experience with government technology, ML Operations experience, Familiarity with AWS specific implementation of managed services

Source: Hayden AI on Ashby · View original posting (opens in new tab)

Pay in context

This role's base floor ($175,000) is above 37% of the 1,500 Data & ML roles in California listed on this site; 30 others list the same floor. Their median floor is $189,000; the middle half runs from $159,367 to $229,900.

Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 7, 2026.

This range next to 6 other live Hayden AI roles with the nearest advertised base floor
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This range next to 6 other live Hayden AI roles with the nearest advertised base floor
RolePublished base
Senior Software Engineer, Events (this listing)$175K - $228K
Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure$175,579 - $228,253
Staff Systems Engineer$185K - $240K
Deep Learning Engineer$161,637 - $175,000
Senior State Estimation Engineer$200,454 - $260,590
Manager, Electrical Engineering$201,025 - $236,500
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer$141K - $184K

Same $100K to $400K scale as every card. All Hayden AI roles · How to read the bar

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Observed since
Employer-stated posting date
2026-05-19
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Location as the employer wrote it: San Francisco HQ Office

USD 175,000 – 228,000 · 1 YEAR · Salary

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