Applied Research Engineer
LB38
Posted: 21/10/2025
- $165,000 - $200,000
- San Francisco, CA
🎥 Applied Research Engineer – Video AI
📍 San Francisco, CA (On-site) | 💼 Full-time | 💰 Competitive salary + equity
We’re working with an AI research lab pioneering video intelligence — the only one solely focused on video data. With 80% of internet traffic now video, their mission is to unlock the next wave of creativity, communication, and robotics through cutting-edge video understanding.
They’ve scaled from $0 → multi-million revenue in just 3 months, backed by Matrix Partners, Swift Ventures, Y Combinator, and AI Grant — and are now hiring an Applied Research Engineer to help push the boundaries of large-scale video modelling.
What you’ll do:
- Build high-performance pipelines and infrastructure for large-scale video understanding
- Work across computer vision, audio, and text processing domains
- Optimize models via parallelism, pre/post-processing, pipelining, and inference optimization
- Tackle ambiguous research challenges with creative, production-ready solutions
What you bring:
- 2+ years in Computer Vision or Audio Processing
- Strong Python + PyTorch experience
- Solid engineering fundamentals and clean coding practices (GitHub/portfolio a plus)
- Clear communicator, comfortable collaborating with external teams
- Passion for video, media tech, and end-to-end product impact
Bonus:
⭐ Open-source contributions
⭐ Startup or early-stage experience
Join a small, fast-moving team of 11 scaling rapidly and building the data infrastructure powering the next generation of AI.
Anna Heneghan
Head of Machine Learning & AI Recruitment