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Director of Computer Vision

Motorola Solutions


Job Location:

Waltham, MA - USA

Yearly Salary: USD 250000 - 290000
Posted: 23 October 2026 (13 hours ago)
Application Deadline: 20 January 2027
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Company Overview

At Motorola Solutions we believe that everything starts with our people. Were a global close-knit community united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. We build and connect technologies to help protect people property and places. Our solutions foster the collaboration thats critical for safer communities safer schools safer hospitals safer businesses and ultimately safer nations. Connect with a career that matters and help us build a safer future.


Department Overview
Motorola Solutions innovations products and services play essential roles in peoples lives. Our end-to-end suite of software solutions helps customers manage emergency communications process video and evidence and leverage cutting-edge AI-driven analytics for security and operational insights. We are industry leaders in video security and analytics with solutions deployed in more than 120 countries across diverse environments such as school campuses transportation systems healthcare centers public venues critical infrastructure prisons factories casinos airports financial institutions government facilities and retailers. Our AI-powered security solutions integrate advanced video analytics machine learning and embedded intelligence to enable proactive threat detection enhanced situational awareness and automated decision-making.

Job Description

The Director of Computer Vision will drive the technical vision research and engineering execution for the platform with focus on the following core areas:


  • Foundational Research Strategy: Define the long-term research agenda for fundamental computer vision capabilities and drive the culture of scientific excellence.
  • Technical Vision Engineering Leadership and Execution: Provide executive technical leadership to a unified research and engineering organization defining the technical architecture strategy and engineering roadmap for the Computer Vision Platform. Drive execution ensuring the seamless translation of product requirements into robust technical specifications and successful delivery of next-generation visual intelligence solutions that are highly scalable and align with overall product and business strategy.
  • Organizational Leadership and Talent Strategy: Manage and scale a unified computer vision research and engineering organization distributed across multiple geographies overseeing multiple teams and defining the strategy for recruiting mentoring and attracting world-class talent.
  • End-to-End MLOps and Deployment: Own the entire engineering lifecycle for central reusable computer vision models and foundational AI infrastructure. This includes establishing best-in-class MLOps practices for scalable training efficient deployment continuous monitoring and performance optimization across edge and cloud environments.
  • Performance Measurement and Continuous Improvement: Define implement and track key technical performance metrics (e.g. latency throughput model efficiency system reliability) to measure engineering success identify bottlenecks and drive continuous improvement in execution and delivery.
  • Technical Innovation and Risk Management: Evaluate and integrate cutting-edge computer vision research and technologies. Proactively identify and mitigate significant technical risks and lead critical engineering decisions including build-versus-buy analysis.

Qualifications & Experience

  • 10 years of technical leadership experience leading computer vision teams and organizations with a focus on building and deploying enterprise-scale platforms and solutions in production.
  • Technical Acumen & Deep Expertise: Deep demonstrable expertise in computer vision machine learning algorithms and the end-to-end MLOps lifecycle including 5 years of hands-on experience building and optimizing computer vision models or as a computer vision researcher. Proven ability to engage in complex technical discussions define the architectural vision for central reusable AI infrastructure and models and drive technical strategy while managing critical trade-offs.
  • Executive Technical Strategy & Metrics: Proven experience defining long-term technical vision engineering strategy and roadmaps for a large-scale platform. Expertise in defining and implementing technical metrics (e.g. latency throughput system reliability model efficiency) to measure engineering excellence and drive continuous improvement across an organization.
  • Organizational & People Leadership: Demonstrated ability to manage and scale a unified distributed engineering and research organization of 50 to 100 people mentor senior technical talent and lead multiple teams across different geographies.
  • Strong Analytical and Research Skills: Hands-on experience driving innovation through foundational research working with AI performance metrics (e.g. Precision/Recall) real-time video processing and inference optimization.
  • Customer-Driven Technical Leadership (Pathfinding): Track record of translating highly ambiguous product concepts and complex customer needs into clear executable technical roadmaps and architectural specifications.
  • Start-up Mentality & Agility: Experience in a start-up or fast-paced environment is highly valued demonstrating high ownership bias for action comfort with ambiguity and the ability to drive 0-to-1 product development with limited resources.
  • Domain Knowledge: Experience in public safety security-focused software (e.g. video security evidence management) mission-critical systems or emergency communications is a plus.

Target Base Salary Range:$250000 USD - $290000 USD


Consistent with Motorola Solutions values and applicable law we provide the following information to promote pay transparency and equity. Pay within this range varies and depends on job-related knowledge skills and experience. The actual offer will be based on the individual candidate.


Note: Candidates must reside in a US state within the Eastern (EST) or Central (CST) Time Zone.


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Basic Requirements
  • Bachelors degree with 10 years of technical leadership experience leading computer vision teams and organizations.


Travel Requirements
Under 25%

Relocation Provided
None

Position Type
Experienced

Referral Payment Plan
No

Our :

  • Incentive Bonus Plans

  • Medical Dental Visionbenefits

  • 401K with Company Match

  • 10 Paid Holidays

  • GenerousPaidTime Off Packages

  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan

  • PaidParental & Family Leave

  • and more!


EEO Statement

Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion or belief sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability veteran status or any other legally-protected characteristic.

We are proud of our people-first and community-focused culture empowering every Motorolan to be their most authentic self and to do their best work to deliver on the promise of a safer world. If youd like to join our team but feel that you dont quite meet all of the preferred skills wed still love to hear why you think youd be a great addition to our team.

Were committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruiting experience for candidates with disabilities or other physical or mental health conditions. To request an accommodation please complete thisReasonable Accommodations Formso we can assist you.


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Motorola Solutions, Inc., incorporated on March 9, 1973, is a provider of communication infrastructure, devices, accessories, software and services. The Company operates through two segments: Products and Services. It serves global customer base spanning federal, state, county, provin ... View more

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