Remy Schor (Recruiter at Voxel51), Lanny Wang (Software Engineer at Voxe51) and Josh Leven (VP of Engineering at Voxel51) speak about the company, hiring, open roles, and more.
A fully-remote Series B startup, Voxel51 is building a platform that empowers ML teams to create more accurate, less biased AI across a number of exciting fields, including healthcare, security, and self-driving cars.
VOXEL51 IS HIRING – REMOTE JOBS!
- Software Engineering Manager (Remote – North America)
- Check out more open jobs at Voxel51
TRANSCRIPT
Remy Schor: Voxel51 is a 48-person Series B company. We are in growth mode currently. Essentially our tool allows computer-vision engineers to curate their visual datasets in relationship to the models they are building and refining. In 2024, we doubled our revenue and actually doubled our headcount as well.
In 2025, we are looking to double revenue again and we’ll continue to grow responsibly, probably increasing our headcount by 50% – hopefully more… In terms of the responsible and diligent growth model that is really important to us, that really focuses on not over-hiring and intentionally adding people to the team, so when I think about how we do that, I want to address inclusion and equity with respect to recruiting.
I actually think hiring in general is a bit broken, and that’s not just a Voxel51 thing, I think that’s an industry-wide problem, maybe a world problem. If you are generally curious about how to stand out and be elevated in tech specifically, or with respect to your background, go ahead and watch the [resume] presentation that we just did – I think that will help you stand out.
How do I as a recruiter focus on inclusion at Voxel51 in spite of some of that noise and the distractions? And the reality is, I think it’s our commitment to the candidate experience and also to the employee experience, so both – as you get noticed and interviewed and hopefully hired, and also once you are an employee here.
What we do really well: we are extremely flexible, and I think we do a really nice job of inclusively allowing people to live their lives.
We ask a lot of ourselves, and we ask a lot of each others, it’s very heavy lifting as is true in most startups, but there is time and space for family and pets – I can’t believe my dogs haven’t barked in the last hour, but they are always around and constantly barking, and nobody at Voxel51 gets upset.
That’s the sort of run down on my recruiting philosophy and a little bit about us, and I will pass it on to Josh…
Josh Leven: Awesome. Thank you Remy. Hi I’m Josh, VP of Engineering here at Voxel51. Some basics about engineering here – first of all, the company is fully remote. Execs on the east coast and the west coast. Everyone is in the US and Canadian time zones, but fully remote. We do a couple of retreats every year but otherwise you are [working] out of your home office.
We currently have 17 engineers, and as Remy said, we are growing. We are hiring now and have plans to do hiring more next year.
Our tech stack: Python and TypeScript. We are primarily an on-prem solution, we are not really a SaaS product, which brings with it its own engineering challenges. But I actually joined the company a few months ago and one of the biggest reasons for me is the huge impact our product has.
We are all very aware – the AI revolution is coming – and what we are doing at Voxel51 enables the teams that are building AI models to build models that are less biased, more safe, more reliable, and helping them to get those models into production more consistently.
We are helping a huge range of industries in doing that – we are working with companies in healthcare, autonomous vehicles, robotics, agriculture, retail, sports, and a bunch more. And even beyond that, we are not just doing that for big companies.
We have a vibrant open source community. Everyone from college students and academic researchers, to professionals in machine learning, in addition to, of course, a growing enterprise community using our enterprise product, Another really unique thing about Voxel51 is that we are making big investments into innovation.
Jason, one of our co-founders, is a research professor at the University of Michigan and he leads our MLE pure research teams. They are doing groundbreaking research that we then get to incorporate in our products, both open source and enterprise.
This is one of the ways we continue to be a part of the conversation and the cutting edge of artificial intelligence. But on top of that, we want everyone at the company to have the opportunity to keep up with that conversation, so amongst a number of other things, every other Tuesday we have an ML paper review where an expert in the field will come and walk us through one of the papers they think is really interesting and valuable.
Alright. So I’d love to also tell you about our culture but better than me, I want to hand it off to Lanny, one of our engineers, to talk about what it’s like working at Voxel51. In fact, she’s one of the engineers on the team that works most closely with the machine learning team.
Lanny Wang: Hi, ELEVATE! My name is Lanny. I’ve worked at Voxel51 for roughly two years, so working primarily on right now the ML workflow panels, so it relates to Python side, and on the frontend with React.
Working at Voxel51, on a daily basis, we work as human beings, even though we write code. I feel all of my coworkers at Voxel51 are very kind and respectful people. The engineers have all kinds of different backgrounds. For instance, our devops – fun fact – used to work for a circus and went to acting school twenty years ago. We truly have backgrounds from everywhere, and people are very passionate about what we do, we are very helpful, and it’s always very pleasant to work with them.
What I enjoy the most about working at Voxel51 is having a good balance of trust, the autonomy and the flexibility to determine what I want to do, and also, when I need something from people, everyone is always approachable and reachable.
We also have weekly syncs where we get to discuss the newest trends in tech, so while we are remote, there are ways to keep up to trend with what we talk about. We have an annual retreat where we gather in teams, discuss bigger topics and ideas together down the road.
With engineering, things are growing so rapidly, there are a lot of opportunities to continue to optimize and improve. I feel there are definitely lots of exciting opportunities and features to work on, especially that tie to the new AI trend.
What I enjoy most is the really tie to customers. As an engineer, I not only care about the code, personally, I care about the future I deliver to, I want to see how it impacts people, do they use it, do they like it.. there’s a way we engage with customers, usually at a conference. Usually engineers can pick one academic conference to go to each year and have face-to-face communication with our customers, it could be students and people from academic, or clients from all the industries, talk to people in agriculture, in food, in retail, not to mention autonomous driving, etc. So being able to have that first-hand feedback not only from sales, but having engagement with customer, that makes me feel very great.
VOXEL51 IS HIRING – REMOTE JOBS!
- Software Engineering Manager (Remote – North America)
- Check out more open jobs at Voxel51
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