Senior ML Engineer: Multimodal Video Content Discovery

Paramount; New York (NY); On-site; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus eligibility

Diversity-focused workplace

Job summary

Paramount is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer in New York to lead the development of multimodal embedding and retrieval systems. You will influence content discovery across the video library, mentor engineers, and enhance video understanding through innovative solutions. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in production ML systems, particularly in handling video and audio embeddings, alongside strong Python skills. This role is bonus eligible and part of a dynamic team.

Qualifications

• 5–8+ years of experience in machine learning engineering focused on production ML systems.
• Expertise in multimodal ML, including experience with video, image, and/or audio embedding models.
• Strong Python proficiency; Java is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of multimodal embedding systems for video content.
• Design embedding pipelines and implement query-time optimizations.
• Build and maintain scalable batch and streaming pipelines.

Skills

Production ML systems

Multimodal ML expertise

Python proficiency

Data pipelines at scale

Hybrid retrieval systems

Mentoring engineers

Tools

Qdrant

FAISS

Pinecone

Pgvector

AlloyDB

Job description

Paramount is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer in New York to lead the development of multimodal embedding and retrieval systems. You will influence content discovery across the video library, mentor engineers, and enhance video understanding through innovative solutions. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in production ML systems, particularly in handling video and audio embeddings, alongside strong Python skills. This role is bonus eligible and part of a dynamic team.