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William and William Recruiting

Applied Research Engineer - Video AI Infrastructure

William and William Recruiting, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199

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They're the only AI research lab exclusively focused on video data. They combine exabyte-scale video infrastructure with novel video understanding techniques to develop datasets that push the frontier of video modeling.

Video makes up 80% of internet traffic and powers creativity, gaming, AR/VR, and robotics. They're solving the biggest bottleneck: high-quality training data.

Traction : Partnered with top AI labs, $XXM revenue last quarter, 12-person team. Series A backed by Matrix Partners, Y Combinator, Swift Ventures, and AI Grant.

The Role

Build high-performance building blocks and large-scale pipelines to understand video at internet scale. Work on ambiguous research problems across

computer vision, audio processing, and text processing

domains.

You’ll squeeze performance through clever pre/post-processing, parallelism, pipelining, inference optimization, and fine-tuning. This is research meets production—ship end-to-end systems, not just papers.

Requirements

Must-Haves:

2+ years in computer vision or audio processing

Strong Python + PyTorch/TensorFlow experience

Excellent communication with customers and teams

Clean, maintainable code

Deep passion for video/media tech

End-to-end product mindset (not just model training)

In-person in SF

Bonus:

Open source contributions

Early startup experience

Compensation

Base : $200K-$250K

Equity : Meaningful early-stage package

Why Join

Work on frontier video AI problems at internet scale with a small, high-impact team. Ground-floor opportunity at a well-funded lab partnering with leading AI companies.

Apply with : Resume, GitHub/portfolio (if available)

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Engineering and Research

Industries

Technology, Information and Media and Software Development

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