Software Engineer

Your mission

At AVIAN, our mission is clear: we stop fires before they start. Our infrared camera systems and AI-driven monitoring help industrial companies detect abnormal heat early, prevent fire risk, protect assets, and avoid costly downtime.

We have reached product-market fit. We have the product, the proof, and strong customer demand. Now we need to scale the technology that powers it.

As Software Engineer, your mission is to build the software backbone of AVIAN’s fire prevention platform. You will work on the systems that connect our cameras, process thermal data, detect anomalies, trigger alerts, support customer workflows, and help industrial teams act before small issues become major incidents.

You will:

• Build and improve the software platform behind AVIAN’s thermal monitoring system.
• Develop reliable backend services for data ingestion, alerting, device communication, event history, and customer workflows.
• Improve our web applications, dashboards, and internal tools.
• Work on integrations with industrial systems, including PLCs, customer infrastructure, and partner platforms.
• Help make our system more scalable, secure, observable, and resilient.
• Work closely with hardware, AI, product, operations, and customer-facing teams.
• Translate real customer needs into simple, reliable software.
• Debug production issues across devices, cloud systems, and user-facing applications.
• Improve engineering quality through testing, documentation, code reviews, and better development workflows.
• Contribute to architectural decisions as we scale from early product-market fit to a global platform.

This is a hands-on engineering role. You will design, build, ship, debug, and improve systems used in real industrial environments.

Your profile

You are a pragmatic software engineer who likes building useful products, not over-engineered systems. You care about reliability, simplicity, speed, and real-world impact.

Must-haves:

• Strong software engineering experience in a startup, scale-up, or product-driven engineering environment.
• Experience building production software used by real customers.
• Strong backend development skills.
• Good understanding of APIs, databases, cloud services, and distributed systems.
• Ability to write clean, maintainable, tested code.
• Strong debugging skills across application, infrastructure, and data layers.
• Comfort working with ambiguity and making practical trade-offs.
• Ability to work closely with product, hardware, AI, and customer-facing teams.
• High ownership, direct communication, and bias for action.
• Fluent English.
• Willingness to occasionally travel for team meetings, customer visits, or on-site product work.

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience in industrial IoT, hardware-enabled SaaS, machine vision, predictive maintenance, automation, safety tech, or robotics.
• Experience with real-time data, telemetry, monitoring, alerting, or edge-to-cloud systems.
• Experience with frontend development and customer-facing dashboards.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, DevOps, observability, or security.
• Experience working with cameras, sensors, embedded devices, or industrial protocols.
• Experience with AI-enabled products or data pipelines.
• German language skills.
• Based in Zurich, Europe, or a major US tech hub.

Why us?

AVIAN is building a new category in industrial fire prevention. Our product protects real facilities, real assets, and real people. The impact is immediate, measurable, and operationally critical.

You will join at the right stage: product-market fit is proven, customer demand is real, and the technology now needs to scale. This is the opportunity to work on software that connects the physical and digital world, with direct customer impact from day one.

What we offer:

• Direct ownership of critical product and platform components.
• Opportunity to build software used in real industrial environments.
• Close collaboration with hardware, AI, product, and customer teams.
• Competitive compensation.
• Equity participation.
• Flexible, high-trust working model.
• International team with a clear mission and strong customer focus.
• Opportunity to help scale AVIAN to $10M+ ARR and beyond.

The AVIAN Way:

• Clarity, ownership, speed. Everyone owns outcomes end-to-end.
• Fail fast, fix faster. We learn quickly and improve continuously.
• Radical transparency. Shared knowledge, open decisions, constant feedback.
• Global and focused. International team, customer-obsessed, real-world impact.

AVIAN is an equal-opportunity employer. We welcome applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status. Reasonable accommodations are available upon request.

About us

Early Fire Prevention. Predictive Power.

AVIAN’s Swiss-engineered computer vision algorithms provide mission-critical protection for high-risk industries - wood, recycling, paper, and beyond - by spotting process anomalies before they escalate. Our AI-driven system has already stopped thousands of fires and downtime hours in real operations, saving facilities from catastrophic loss.

With the world’s largest dataset of real fire events, AVIAN delivers unmatched accuracy, instant alerts (SMS, WhatsApp, phone), and PLC-based automatic shutdowns. Beyond fire safety, our predictive maintenance analytics extend equipment lifetime, reduce downtime, and keep your facility insurable.