Applied Research Engineer
GW56
Posted: 15/09/2025
- $180,000-$250,000
- San Francisco, CA
- Permanent
About the job
Applied Research Engineer - Video Intelligence - Up to $250k
A Series A Funded start-up who already have millions in recurring revenue are building next-generation AI infrastructure for video intelligence are looking for an Applied Research Engineer to join their team.
What You'll Be Doing
- Build high-performance video understanding systems and large-scale processing pipelines
- Tackle ambiguous research problems with creative technical solutions
- Optimize model performance through clever pre/post-processing, parallelism, and inference optimization
- Work directly with customers and external teams to deliver end-to-end video intelligence products
- Collaborate with leading AI video labs on cutting-edge applications
What We're Looking For
- 2+ years experience in computer vision or audio processing
- Strong Python skills with PyTorch or similar ML frameworks
- Excellent communication abilities, especially customer-facing
- Clean, maintainable coding practices
- Product-minded approach - you want to build complete solutions, not just train models
- Early startup experience is a plus
What's In It For You:
- Competitive salary up to $250k
- Small, high-impact team with significant growth trajectory
- Opportunity to work with top AI video labs and collect world-class datasets
Apply now for immediate consideration!

Kirstie Moffat
ML Research & Engineering Recruiter