Labelbox’s mission is to build the best products for humans to advance artificial intelligence. Real breakthroughs in AI are reliant on the quality of the training data. Our training data platform enables organizations to improve their machine learning models far quicker and more accurately. We are determined to build software that is more open, easier-to-use, and singularly focused on getting our customers to performant ML faster.

Current Labelbox customers are transforming industries within insurance, retail, manufacturing/robotics, healthcare, and beyond. Our platform is used by Fortune 500 enterprises including Allstate, John Deere, Bayer, Warner Brothers and leading AI-focused companies including FLIR Systems and Caption Health. We are backed by leading investors including Andreessen Horowitz, B Capital, Gradient Ventures (Google's AI-focused fund), and Kleiner Perkins.

About the Perception Team

Our team focuses on building a beautiful and intuitive, reliant and performant browser interface, served to users all around the world. We are responsible for processing images, documents, videos, and more for display in a browser. We build the tools that visually annotate and manipulate those assets. And we design the custom components and SDKs that allow customers to build their own interfaces. 

We’re looking for folks who have the deep technical knowledge to tackle our hardest problems, that unlock new opportunities and impact not only Perception, but many other teams. In this role, you will design key systems and work with other engineers to implement them. You will lean on your experience to ensure we foresee and avoid potential scaling and reliability issues and raise the bar for the quality of our software. 

About You

• You have 6+ years of hands-on experience building complex, data-rich web applications.
• You have 2+ years of experience as a project leader with a track record of impact and successful deliveries.
• You specialize in one or more of the following:

- Multimedia file formats and encoding standards

- 2D and 3D geometries, vector and raster graphics, computer vision

- Tiled Imagery and geospatial analysis

- Real-time collaboration and productivity software

- Browser network protocols and security best practices

- Scaling out Enterprise SaaS products

• You have a deep understanding of CS fundamentals, a passion for modern web technologies, and a demonstrated fluency with object-oriented and functional programming languages. 
• You have experience or interest in our tech stack and development tools:

- Frontend development with Typescript, React, Redux, RxJS, or similar languages and frameworks

- Backend development with NodeJS, Apollo GraphQL, SQL, Redis, or similar languages and frameworks

- Pain-free local development with automated tooling for productivity and reliability; experience with Webpack, Cypress, Jest

- Image processing with OpenCV and scaling out Python services

- Visualizations with konva, ThreeJS, P5, D3, or similar 

What We Value

• You have a track record of delivering complex, cross-functional projects. You are able to balance owning and delegating technical design decisions and make tradeoffs to move quickly while producing quality code.
• You care deeply about building a highly reliable and desirable tool for our customers. To do so, you apply a constant and committed approach to learning and growing in your art. You believe in applying your craft to practical problems and value having a meaningful impact in an exciting, growing field.
• You thrive in a remote-first environment and can be relied on to strike a balance between focused, individual effort and effective collaboration. You are able to communicate clearly and concisely on technical problems and solutions across a variety of mediums.
• You are excited to be part of a strong culture that promotes inclusive collaboration and fierce trust in each other. You deeply value working on such a team and see yourself actively contributing to the culture, practices, and standards of the team.

What You Will Accomplish

• You will push the boundaries of what is possible in a browser, squeezing out every last ounce of performance available to build the world’s most powerful and performant, secure and stable training data platform.
• You will make hands-on contributions and partner with a passionate and talented group of engineers, designers, and product managers to define, scope, and build critically valuable and innovative features in our core product.
• You will overcome tricky technical challenges and pioneer new uses of web technologies powering the features that enable our customers to make breakthroughs and advance the field of artificial intelligence.
• You will shape the future of Labelbox by hiring and recruiting more amazing and talented people and joining with them to promote a culture of technical excellence and constant growth through mentorship and guidance.

Do great work. From anywhere

We hire great people regardless of where they live. Work wherever you’d like as reliable internet access is our only requirement. We communicate asynchronously, work autonomously, and take ownership of our work.