Applied Research Engineer | Video AI
GW105
Posted: 27/10/2025
- $150,000-$250,000
- Bay Area, CA
- Permanent
About the job
🎥 Applied Research Engineer | Video AI
📍 San Francisco, CA (On-site) 💼 Full-time 💰 Competitive Salary + Equity
We’re partnered with a pioneering AI research lab building the future of video intelligence — the only company solely focused on understanding video data.
With video now making up 80% of all internet traffic, they’re unlocking the next era of creativity, communication, and robotics through cutting-edge video modelling. Backed by Matrix Partners, Swift Ventures, Y Combinator, and AI Grant, they’ve grown from $0 to multi-million revenue in just 3 months — and they’re only getting started.
What you’ll do
- Build high-performance infrastructure for large-scale video understanding
- Work across vision, audio, and text processing domains
- Optimise models with advanced parallelism, pipelining, and inference tuning
- Tackle open-ended research challenges and deliver production-ready solutions
What you bring
- 2+ years in Computer Vision or Audio Processing
- Strong Python and PyTorch skills
- Solid engineering fundamentals and clean coding (GitHub/portfolio = plus)
- Excellent communicator who thrives in collaborative, fast-moving teams
- Passion for video, media tech, and real-world product impact
Bonus points
⭐ Open-source or academic contributions
⭐ Startup or early-stage experience
Join a tight-knit team of 11 scaling fast — building the infrastructure and models powering the next generation of AI video understanding.
Anna Heneghan
Senior ML Research & Engineering Recruiter