Senior Software Engineer, Vision AI
Toast, Inc.Base Salary
$125k - $254k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build full-stack, customer-facing features spanning backend APIs and user interfaces for vision-powered restaurant products.
- Own platform components including video pipelines and services that process and analyze footage.
- Integrate vision, AI, and ML models into production features with supporting evaluation and monitoring systems.
- Contribute to architecture, technical design, and cross-team integrations.
- Use AI coding tools and agent harnesses in daily development, testing, and delivery workflows.
- Maintain high standards for quality, testing, reliability, security, and privacy while mentoring engineers through reviews and collaboration.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience building and shipping production software, including customer-facing products.
- Strong backend experience with cloud infrastructure, event-driven systems, storage, APIs, and Kotlin, Java, or similar languages, plus web frontend experience.
- Experience integrating AI or ML models, LLM APIs, or vision-language model APIs into production features.
- Experience taking ambiguous ideas from prototype to production with real customers.
- Daily experience using AI coding assistants and agent harnesses such as Claude Code or Cursor.
- Ability to collaborate with product, design, and engineering partners and explain technical tradeoffs clearly.
- Preferred experience with React and TypeScript, computer vision, video analytics, camera-based products, video streams and codecs, ffmpeg, ML inference and monitoring, connected device fleets, data-rich product experiences, privacy-sensitive systems, or restaurant and retail operations.
Benefits
- Hybrid work model with in-office expectations varying by region.
- Total rewards package including benefits, equity, and other compensation components; benefits are intended to support healthy lifestyles and changing employee needs.
- Toast provides AI tools across disciplines and supports an inclusive hiring process with reasonable accommodations.
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About Toast, Inc.
Bottom Line – Solving business problems and generating positive growth is our jam! We are focused on helping purpose-driven brands make a positive impact with predictable Inbound Growth Programs. As a small business, we get it. Growing pains are genuine for many companies in today’s evolving digital landscape. Standing apart from your competition, connecting with your customers, predictably hitting your goals, and scaling are becoming more challenging as local and global markets expand. But it's not impossible. Digging into the unique challenges your business encounters, we analyze every detail and identify opportunities to grow. Our conversational framework is based on data, mixed with beautiful design, story-telling, and smothered in personality to craft marketing and sales strategies that make it all happen. Do you want to transform your company into a crave-worthy brand that new and existing customers will love and promote? Let's Get Cookin'!