Principal Computer Vision & AI Engineer — Live Video

Tandem Search; Al Khobar; On-site; SAR 450,000 - 750,000; Full time

Job summary

Tandem Search is seeking a Principal Computer Vision & AI Engineer in Al Khobar to lead the technical direction of production AI systems operating over live video streams. This is a hands-on technical leadership role focusing on architecture, development, and deployment of CV, video analytics and multimodal models.

You will own the ML lifecycle from data strategy to monitoring, optimize for edge and cloud inference, and set engineering standards while remaining deeply hands-on with code.

Qualifications

• Substantial hands-on experience with video-based computer vision systems.
• Strong production experience with live or streaming video.
• Proficient in PyTorch and TensorFlow.
• Experience with YOLO, DETR/RT-DETR, GroundingDINO.
• Experience with Vision-Language Models / multimodal models.
• Experience deploying AI models in production.
• Exposure to edge AI (TensorRT, ONNX Runtime, Jetson).
• Able to operate as a Principal/Staff-level technical authority while hands-on.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build production computer vision and video analytics systems.
• Develop solutions across detection, segmentation, tracking, event understanding and spatial reasoning.
• Design and deploy VLM/multimodal AI systems for live and recorded video.
• Own the full ML lifecycle: data strategy, experimentation, fine-tuning, evaluation, deployment and monitoring.
• Optimize models for edge and cloud inference balancing accuracy, latency, throughput and cost.
• Establish automated model evaluation, regression testing and production monitoring.
• Develop agentic AI systems capable of reasoning over video and interacting with tools, APIs, cameras and sensors.
• Set technical architecture and engineering standards while remaining hands-on with code.

Skills

Computer Vision

Video AI

PyTorch

TensorFlow

YOLO

DETR/RT-DETR

GroundingDINO

VLM

Edge AI

MLOps

Tools

NVIDIA Jetson

Job description

Tandem Search is seeking a Principal Computer Vision & AI Engineer in Al Khobar to lead the technical direction of production AI systems operating over live video streams. This is a hands-on technical leadership role focusing on architecture, development, and deployment of CV, video analytics and multimodal models.

You will own the ML lifecycle from data strategy to monitoring, optimize for edge and cloud inference, and set engineering standards while remaining deeply hands-on with code.