About the job
🌟 Applied Research Engineer – Video Intelligence 🌟
Our client is on a mission to transform the future of video through cutting-edge AI. With video accounting for over 80% of internet traffic—and becoming the backbone of industries such as entertainment, robotics, gaming, and AR/VR—they are building breakthrough systems to truly understand video at internet scale.
🎥 About the Role
As an Applied Research Engineer, you’ll design high-performance building blocks and pipelines to process and understand video at scale. Expect to tackle ambiguous research challenges, experiment with clever techniques, and push the limits of model performance.
This is hands-on, end-to-end product work—perfect for someone who thrives on turning research into real-world impact.
🚀 What You’ll Bring
- 2+ years in computer vision or audio processing
- Strong Python development skills (PyTorch or similar ML frameworks)
- Clear communication skills, with experience engaging customers/external teams
- A track record of writing clean, maintainable code (bonus: GitHub/portfolio to show off!)
- A real passion for video, media tech, and building end-to-end systems
✨ Bonus Points:
- Open-source contributions
- Startup/early-hire experience
📍 Location: In-person at their HQ in NYC or San Francisco
