Staff Computer Vision Engineer

Hover is making the homeowner journey easy, transparent and fun. Starting with the home improvement industry,  we’re answering age-old questions like, “What is it going to look like?” and “What is it going to cost?”, by helping homeowners and pros visualize what’s possible with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and interactive 3D property models. Homeowners, contractors, and insurance professionals all use Hover to get fully measured, accurate, and interactive models of any property—in a matter of minutes, and with just a few snaps of a smartphone camera.

Join a team that is rooted in challenging the status quo, persistence, and dedicated to serving our employees, customers, and communities. With key investors, including Google Ventures and Menlo Ventures and leading insurance carriers such as Travelers, State Farm, and Nationwide, Hover is committed to changing the world, one home at a time. At Hover, we believe there is strength in diversity and are fostering an inclusive and diverse culture by hiring qualified, talented people from a wide variety of backgrounds.

About the position

Computer Vision doesn’t just power Hover’s products—it defines them. As we scale our 3D data platform from millions to billions of surfaces, we need a staff-level technical leader who can translate cutting-edge research into durable product capabilities and partner shoulder-to-shoulder with Product Management to decide what we build next. You’ll be the connective tissue between long-term vision, day-to-day engineering, and market-driven product strategy, ensuring that our CV roadmap delivers maximum business and customer impact.

You will contribute by

In this role you’ll embed directly with the product trio—Product, Design, and Engineering—to frame problems, size opportunities, and prioritize what makes it onto the roadmap. You’ll run fast discovery loops that turn research discoveries and customer feedback into clearly scoped experiments.  You’ll navigate technical uncertainty to make “stop / iterate / scale” judgements. By owning the computer-vision objectives and capacity plan, you’ll communicate trade-offs and resource needs to the executive team.

On the technical side, you’ll architect and deliver end-to-end pipelines for multi-view 3D reconstruction, large-scale scene understanding, and semantic modeling—owning everything from data strategy and labeling standards to training, evaluation, and monitored production deployment. You’ll set engineering benchmarks for performance, reliability, and cost, then lead by example in C++ and Python while mentoring other engineers through design reviews that lift the entire organization’s technical bar.

Your background includes

• Expertise in multi-view geometry, pose estimation, structured reconstruction, and large-scale optimization; deep learning in PyTorch or TensorFlow.
• Proven record of shipping CV/ML products at scale (millions of monthly inferences) and owning the full lifecycle from prototype to product.
• Product intuition—you’ve partnered with PMs or worn the PM hat yourself, balancing user value, feasibility, and timing.
• Influence & communication—able to translate math, code, and constraints into narratives that resonate with executives and customers.
• Entrepreneurial bias to action—comfortable with ambiguity, excited to test hypotheses quickly, and relentless about measurable outcomes.
• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in CS, ML, or related field.

Nice to haves

• PhD related to 3D Reconstruction
• Publications in CVPR/ICCV/ECCV and a track record of turning research into revenue

Benefits

• Compensation - Competitive salary and meaningful equity in a fast-growing company
• Healthcare - Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and dependents
• Paid Time Off - Unlimited and flexible vacation policy 
• Paid Family Leave - We support work/life balance and offer generous paid parental and new child bonding leave 
• Mandatory Self-Care Days - A day set aside each month to allow employees to recharge 
• Remote Wellbeing Resources - We provide recurring fitness classes, meditation/ mindfulness tools, virtual therapy, and family planning assistance 
• Learning - We encourage continued education and will help cover the cost of management training, conferences, workshops, or certifications

Hybrid roles at Hover

Hover has Hubs in San Francisco and New York City, where we expect that all employees living within a 50-mile radius of our offices will come into their local Hover office at least three times a week to build rapport and foster organic connection. At this time, Hover is not considering fully remote roles.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $244,000 - $278,000 annually. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all applicable US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

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