Lead AI Researcher: Scale Video AI & Personalization

OpusClip; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

OpusClip, the world’s No.1 AI video agent, is seeking a hands-on Lead AI Researcher with strong technical depth and people-management experience. Based in Mountain View, you will lead the effort to ship AI/ML models from prototype to production at scale, with a focus on video applications.

You will drive model post-training work, including fine-tuning, learning from user feedback, and building data flywheels, while optimizing inference for self-hosted models and balancing latency, throughput,

Qualifications

• Proven experience shipping AI/ML models from prototype to production at scale.
• Deep expertise in post-training, including fine-tuning and learning from user feedback.
• Strong inference optimization for self-hosted models (latency, throughput, GPU).
• Experience applying LLMs or multimodal models to video applications.
• Able to set the technical roadmap, review architecture, and mentor engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI research efforts and guide a small high-performing AI team.
• Balance model quality, latency, reliability, and infrastructure cost.
• Make build-vs-buy decisions across proprietary APIs and models.

Skills

AI/ML deployment

Model fine-tuning

Inference optimization

Model evaluation

Multimodal video models

Vision-language models

Data feedback loops

Roadmap planning

Mentoring engineers

Build-vs-buy decisions

Latency & cost balance

Job description

OpusClip, the world’s No.1 AI video agent, is seeking a hands-on Lead AI Researcher with strong technical depth and people-management experience. Based in Mountain View, you will lead the effort to ship AI/ML models from prototype to production at scale, with a focus on video applications.

You will drive model post-training work, including fine-tuning, learning from user feedback, and building data flywheels, while optimizing inference for self-hosted models and balancing latency, throughput,