AI Engineering Lead - Scale Video AI & Mentoring Team

OpusClip; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

OpusClip, headquartered in Mountain View, is the world’s No.1 AI video agent, built for authenticity on social media. We’re seeking a hands-on AI Engineering Lead with deep technical depth and some people-management experience to guide production-scale models for video applications.

You will ship AI/ML models from prototype to production, optimize inference for self-hosted deployments, tune with user feedback, evaluate models, and mentor engineers while balancing quality, latency, and cost.

Qualifications

• Shipping AI/ML models from prototype to production at scale.
• Fine-tuning and preference optimization using user feedback.
• Latency and resource optimization for self-hosted models.
• Model evaluation using offline benchmarks, online experiments, and human feedback.
• Applying LLMs or multimodal models to video tasks (highlight detection, curation, ranking, editing).
• Familiar with vision-language models, ASR, video understanding and enhancement.
• Build-vs-buy decisions across APIs, open-source models, and internally trained models.
• Setting the technical roadmap and mentoring engineers.

Skills

AI/ML deployment

Post-training tuning

Inference optimization

Model evaluation

Multimodal video models

Roadmap planning

Job description

OpusClip, headquartered in Mountain View, is the world’s No.1 AI video agent, built for authenticity on social media. We’re seeking a hands-on AI Engineering Lead with deep technical depth and some people-management experience to guide production-scale models for video applications.

You will ship AI/ML models from prototype to production, optimize inference for self-hosted deployments, tune with user feedback, evaluate models, and mentor engineers while balancing quality, latency, and cost.