AI Engineering Lead: Scale ML for Video & Personalization

Opus; Mountain View, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 290,000; Full time

Job summary

OpusClip is seeking a hands-on AI Engineering Lead in Mountain View to advance production-grade AI/ML systems for video applications. You will oversee model post-training, fine-tuning, evaluation, and user-feedback loops, and drive data flywheels that fuel continuous improvement.

You will optimize self-hosted inference, balance latency and cost, mentor engineers, and shape the technical roadmap. Experience with vision-language models, ASR/transcription, and multimodal video tasks is highly

Qualifications

• Proven experience shipping AI/ML models from prototype to production at scale.
• Deep expertise in model post-training, including fine-tuning, preference optimization, evaluation, and learning from user feedback.
• Strong inference optimization experience for self-hosted models, including latency, throughput, GPU utilization, quantization, and serving cost.
• Strong model evaluation skills, including offline benchmarks, human evaluation, online experiments, and product-quality metrics.
• Practical experience applying LLMs or multimodal models to video applications, such as highlight detection, content curation, ranking, personalization, and editing decisions.
• Familiarity with video-related models and systems, including but not limited to vision-language models, ASR/transcription, video understanding, and enhancement/upscaling, etc..
• Able to make build-vs-buy decisions across proprietary APIs, open-source models, and internally trained models.
• Capable of setting the technical roadmap, reviewing architecture, mentoring engineers, and managing a small high-performing AI team.
• Product-oriented and pragmatic: understands how to balance model quality, latency, reliability, and infrastructure cost.

Skills

AI/ML model deployment

Model fine-tuning

Inference optimization

Evaluation metrics

Data flywheels

LLMs / multimodal models

Video applications

Build vs buy decisions

Mentoring engineers

Roadmap planning

Python

PyTorch

TensorFlow

GPU/CUDA

A/B testing

Tools

Python

PyTorch

TensorFlow

GPU/CUDA

A/B testing

Job description

OpusClip is seeking a hands-on AI Engineering Lead in Mountain View to advance production-grade AI/ML systems for video applications. You will oversee model post-training, fine-tuning, evaluation, and user-feedback loops, and drive data flywheels that fuel continuous improvement.

You will optimize self-hosted inference, balance latency and cost, mentor engineers, and shape the technical roadmap. Experience with vision-language models, ASR/transcription, and multimodal video tasks is highly