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Machine Learning Engineer, 2+ Years Experience

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Base pay range: $170,000.00/yr - $280,000.00/yr

About TwelveLabs

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 state-of-the-art semantic search, summarization and analysis capabilities. TwelveLabs has raised $107 million in Seed + Series A funding from world-class VC & corporate partners: NVIDIA, NEA, Radical Ventures, Index Ventures, Snowflake and Databricks. Our advisory team features AI visionaries and founders such as Fei-Fei Li, Silvio Savarese, Alexandr Wang and more. Headquartered in San Francisco, 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 and platform engineering efforts across the end-to-end research and engineering workflows. You will scale training, inference, and evaluation systems, while improving the reliability of model deployments, operations, and versioning. This role is a good fit for senior engineers excited by advancing state-of-the-art in vision-language modeling by improving ML systems and infrastructure.

In This Role, You Will

• Advance enterprise video solutions by converting strong research into fault-tolerant, low-latency end-to-end systems
• Scale multimodal AI/ML systems for video understanding
• Deliver applied research solutions to problems like VLM finetuning, auto-labeling of video-text datasets, and model-based filtering to optimize model performance
• Build high-impact libraries and services focused on reliability and maintainability

You May Be A Good Fit If You Have

• 2+ years of relevant industry experience
• Strong Python coding skills
• Experience with modern ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow)
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail

Strong Candidates May Also Have Experience

• Experience with Golang or other statically typed languages
• Building 0-to-1 mission-critical AI/ML applications from scratch
• Optimizing model inference (TensorRT, ONNX, Triton Inference Server)
• Working with FFmpeg or other high-performance image/video processing libraries

Interview Process

• Recruiter Phone Screen
• Initial Technical Assessment
• Hiring Manager Interview
• Onsite Technical Interview (In-Person)
• Final Interview: Culture

We encourage you to apply even if you do not meet every checkbox. A strong learner and collaborative mindset can help you thrive at TwelveLabs.

Benefits And Perks

• Open and inclusive culture and work environment
• Collaborative, mission-driven team on cutting-edge AI technology
• Full health, dental, and vision benefits
• Flexible PTO and parental leave policy; office closed the week of Christmas and New Year's
• Visa support (e.g., H1B and OPT transfer for US employees)

Compensation Range: $170K - $280K

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology
• Software Development

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