Job Description

At TwelveLabs, we are pioneering the development of frontier multimodal foundation models that can see, hear and understand the world as humans do. Our models have redefined the standards in video-language modeling, allowing developers to build programs with stateoftheart semantic search, summarization and analysis capabilities.

TwelveLabs has raised $107 million in Seed + SeriesA funding from worldclass VC & corporate partners: NVIDIA, NEA, Radical Ventures, Index Ventures, Snowflake and Databricks. Our advisory team features AI visionaries and founders such as FeiFeiLi, SilvioSavarese, AlexandrWang and more. Headquartered in SanFrancisco, with an influential APAC presence in Seoul, our global footprint underscores our commitment to driving worldwide innovation.

About The Role

As a Machine Learning Engineer at TwelveLabs, you will drive our ML systems + platform engineering efforts in all facets of our e2e research & engineering workflows. Scaling our training, inference, and evaluation systems all while improving the reliability of our model deployments / operations / versioning / etc. is the essence of the role. This role is a perfect fit for senior engineers who get excited by the prospect of advancing the State of the Art in visionlanguage modeling by perfecting ML systems and infrastructure!

In This Role, You Will:

• Advance our industryleading enterprise video solutions by incorporating alreadygreat research into faulttolerant, low latency e2e systems
• Own model deployment, metadata management, and highthroughput inference strategy for both retrieval (Marengo) and generative (Pegasus) models
• Mentor junior engineers/researchers, and hold a high bar around code quality / engineering best practices
• Build the highest impact, not the flashiest, libraries and services
• Lead by example in interviewing, hiring, and onboarding passionate and empathetic engineers
• Deliver industry leading applied research solutions to problems like VLM finetuning, autolabeling of videotext datasets, and modelbased filtering of said datasets to optimize (end)model performance
• Work across teams to understand and manage project priorities and product deliverables, evaluate tradeoffs, and drive technical initiatives from ideation to execution to shipment

You May Be A Good Fit If You Have:

• 6+ years of relevant industry experience
• Demonstrated experience as a technical lead to deliver projects end to end.
• Strong Python expertise and considerable prior work history with at least one statically typed language (we use Golang)
• Experience with modern ML frameworks (i.e. PyTorch, Tensorflow)

Strong Candidates May Also Have Experience:

• Scaling ML systems and/or data infrastructure to workloads of petabyte+ scale
• Building 0to1 mission critical AI/ML applications from scratch
• Optimizing model inference (TensorRT, ONNX, Triton Inference Server)
• Building Kubernetesbased systems for distributed data/ML workflows
• Working with FFmpeg or other high performance image/video processing libraries
• A PhD, or a Master's degree, in machine learning or a closely related discipline
• Acquiring, filtering, (re)labeling, or sanitizing large scale language or visionlanguage datasets for LLM/VLM pretraining

Interview Process

1. Initial Technical Assessment
2. Onsite Technical Interview [InPerson]
3. Final Interview: Culture

Even if there are a few checkboxes that aren't ticked through your prior experience, we still encourage you to apply! If you are a 01 achiever, a ferocious learner, and a kind and fun team player who motivates others, you will find a home at TwelveLabs.

We are a global company that values the uniqueness of each person's journey. It is the differences in our cultural, educational, and life experiences that allow us to constantly challenge the status quo. We are looking for individuals who are motivated by our mission and eager to make an impact as we push the bounds of technology to transform the world. Join us as we revolutionize video understanding and multimodal AI.

Benefits and Perks

• 🤝 An open and inclusive culture and work environment.
• 🧑 💻 Work closely with a collaborative, missiondriven team on cuttingedge AI technology.
• 🦷 Full health, dental, and vision benefits.
• Flexible PTO and parental leave policy. Office closed the week of Christmas and New Years.
• 🛂 VISA support (such as H1B and OPT transfer for US employees).

Location: SanFrancisco, CA

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