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Overview

San Francisco, CA, USA40+ employeesSeries B+ raised
Reshaping industrial quality with AI, hardware, and software

Reshaping industrial quality with AI, hardware, and software

YC W19

About the Company

Here’s a secret between you and me: even the world’s largest manufacturers, companies like Tesla and Toyota, waste billions of dollars every year making products with quality issues. Building high-quality things at scale is incredibly hard. It doesn’t just happen because you hire smart people or buy good machines. It requires seeing problems early, understanding them deeply, and acting in real time, something factories were never designed to do.

At Overview.ai, we’re changing that. We build custom hardware, edge AI, and software systems that give manufacturers real visibility into how their products are actually being made. Our technology helps catch defects earlier, reduce waste, and fundamentally improve how factories operate. This work matters, not just for our customers, but for keeping American manufacturing competitive in a world that’s moving faster every year.

Tech Stack

We build edge AI inspection systems that run directly on GPU-enabled industrial cameras and deploy on real manufacturing lines. The hard problems are end-to-end and production-grade: designing low-latency inference pipelines, deterministic triggering and buffering, on-device data capture for fast debugging, safe/atomic updates, and fleet-scale rollout across many sites. Our team spans web developers (building local configuration and monitoring UIs that run on the camera), AI/ML engineers, embedded + firmware engineers, and AI infrastructure engineers who own training pipelines, data/versioning, deployment tooling, and reliability.

Founders

Austin Appel
Austin Appel

Austin Appel is the head of product and a co-founder at Overview, where he is responsible for leading product development and operations. With over 8 years of experience in manufacturing, he works with customers to ensure that customers can quickly adopt and use artificial intelligence-based computer vision systems. Previously, Austin spent four years at Tesla in manufacturing and R&D. Austin holds BS Degrees in Manufacturing Engineering and Mechanical Engineering from Northwestern University.

Russell Nibbelink
Russell Nibbelink

I am the head of engineering and a co-founder at Overview. Before joining Overview, I was a software engineer at Salesforce, where I worked on web-scale infrastructure projects, including the migration of Salesforce’s largest customers to upgraded hardware with no downtime. I studied EECS at UC Berkeley, where I was also the head teaching assistant in the field of High Performance Computing.

Christopher Van Dyke
Christopher Van Dyke

After 8 years at Tesla I founded Overview. Overview provides cameras and AI recognition algorithms to help manufacturers automate inspection steps, improve uptime, and reduce errors on their manufacturing lines. At Tesla, I built the team that designed the Gigafactory and launched the Supercharger network.

Open Positions at Overview (14 Jobs)

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Staff Embedded Systems Engineer
Taipei, Taiwan$60K - $120K FULL_TIME
19 hours ago
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Systems Software Engineer (Python / Docker / Edge Devices/ IoT)
Taipei, Taiwan$60K - $90K FULL_TIME
19 hours ago
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Senior Full Stack Engineer 全端工程師
Taipei, Taiwan$60K - $90K FULL_TIME
19 hours ago
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Senior Embedded Systems Engineer
Taipei, Taiwan$60K - $90K FULL_TIME
19 hours ago
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Vision Sales Engineer (Chicago, IL) - Field-based (Travel locally for 60 to 80%)
United States / Remote$75K - $120K FULL_TIME
Remote
19 hours ago
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Vision Sales Engineer (Monterrey) - Field-based (Travel locally for 60 to 80%)
Mexico / Remote$75K - $120K FULL_TIME
Remote
19 hours ago
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Vision Sales Engineer (Atlanta, GA or Charlotte, NC) - Field-based (Travel locally for 60 to 80%)
United States / Remote (US)$75K - $120K FULL_TIME
Remote
19 hours ago
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Vision Sales Engineer (Detroit, MI) - Field-based (Travel locally for 60 to 80%)
United States / Remote$75K - $120K FULL_TIME
Remote
19 hours ago
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Head of Technical Special Projects
San Francisco, CA, US$125K - $225K FULL_TIME
19 hours ago
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Head of Applications – Asia
Shanghai, Shanghai, CN / Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, CN / Taipei City, TW / HK / San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (CN; TW; US; HK)$125K - $225K FULL_TIME
Remote
19 hours ago
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Staff Embedded Software Engineer – Product Lead (Embedded AI)
San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (Chicago, IL, US; Atlanta, GA, US)$150K - $220K FULL_TIME
Remote
19 hours ago
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Software Engineering Manager (Taiwan)
Taipei, Taiwan$60K - $150K FULL_TIME
19 hours ago
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AI GTM Operations Lead
San Francisco, CA$180K FULL_TIME
19 hours ago
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Sales and Applications Engineer (Manufacturing & Automation)
Detroit, MI, US / Atlanta, GA, US / Charlotte, NC, US / Chicago, IL, US / Dallas, TX, US / Columbia, SC, US / Remote (Detroit, MI, US; Atlanta, GA, US; Charlotte, NC, US; Chicago, IL, US; Dallas, TX, US; Columbia, SC, US)$100K - $160K FULL_TIME
Remote
19 hours ago

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