Research Engineer

GW42
  • $150,000-$250,000
  • San Francisco, CA
  • Permanent

About the job


🎥 Applied Research Engineer | Video AI | San Francisco (In-Person)


We’re a video intelligence company building next-generation systems that help the world better understand and work with video. With video now making up 80% of internet traffic and fueling industries from creative tools and social media to robotics, gaming, and AR/VR - its impact is accelerating rapidly with AI.


We develop novel video understanding systems with unmatched quality and efficiency, partnering with leading AI labs to curate and annotate the highest-quality video datasets at internet scale. Backed by top-tier investors (Matrix Partners, Swift Ventures, Y Combinator, AI Grant), we’ve scaled to millions in recurring revenue as a tight-knit team of 11, growing 25% month over month.


As an Applied Research Engineer, you’ll:

  • Build high-performance pipelines and systems for video understanding at scale
  • Solve open-ended research problems with clever pre/post-processing, pipelining, inference optimization, and fine-tuning
  • Work hands-on with models + APIs to maximize performance and precision
  • Collaborate directly with top AI video labs and customers shaping the future of video


What We’re Looking For:

  • 2+ years experience in computer vision or audio processing
  • Strong Python developer with experience in PyTorch or similar ML frameworks
  • Clear communicator, comfortable collaborating with customers + external teams
  • Writes clean, maintainable code (bonus: GitHub/portfolio projects)
  • Passion for video + media technologies, motivated by building end-to-end products
  • Bonus: Open-source contributions or early startup experience


📍 Location: In-person at our San Francisco HQ


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