Sr. Software Engineer
HERE Technologies · Chicago, IL
$130,000–$140,000from the description
Jul 15, 2026
Chicago, IL
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior engineering role focused on building and owning the AI platform infrastructure that connects research and production systems for computer vision, perception, simulation, and mapping work. Day-to-day responsibilities span pipeline orchestration, cloud-based job execution, artifact storage, APIs, observability, and deployment tooling. Best suited to a backend or ML-platform engineer comfortable working across the full lifecycle from prototype to production in a small team.
Mid level · 3+ years · San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA · Master's required · Full-time
Advertised as Senior, but the requirements read as Mid.
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 150 people in the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 110–190
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $190,744 (middle half $167,095–$224,501). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The advertised title is 'Senior Software Engineer', but the required experience is only 3–5 years and the scope is a small-team, early-stage platform role — more consistent with a Mid-level band than Senior.
The degree requirement states 'Master's or PhD in Computer Science, AI, Machine Learning, or related field' with no explicit 'or equivalent experience' escape clause, so Masters is treated as the minimum hard requirement.
Location is not explicitly stated in the posting body, but the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative are both cited, suggesting a California-based role. HERE Technologies' US engineering presence is primarily in the Bay Area; CBSA set to San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA as best inference.
The 3–5 years of experience is scoped specifically to 'deep learning, computer vision, or multimodal AI', not general software engineering — captured as the overall years minimum of 3 (the minimum of the range) with deep learning and computer vision as required skills.
GPU inference, MLOps, experiment tracking, dataset versioning, observability, and asynchronous job systems all appear under the 'Nice To Have' section and are marked preferred accordingly.
AWS is listed under the required qualifications as 'familiarity with AWS compute, storage, batch-processing, and deployment patterns'; alternatives include Azure and GCP as the primary competing cloud platforms.
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