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Senior Staff Software Development Engineer - Video Insights (Backend)

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3 months ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Design and architect scalable ML systems infrastructure for deploying and serving large video models in production.
  • Define technical strategy and best practices for model development, evaluation, monitoring, selection, optimization, and fine-tuning.
  • Translate complex AI research into production-ready systems in collaboration with research and engineering teams.
  • Champion MLOps practices including model versioning, A/B testing, and continuous evaluation frameworks.
  • Drive performance optimization to meet model latency and throughput requirements at scale.
  • Establish evaluation metrics, benchmarking, and continuous improvement processes.
  • Mentor and guide engineers on architecture, design decisions, and technical trade-offs.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in software architecture or systems design, including 5+ years focused on ML/AI systems architecture.
  • Deep expertise in scalable machine learning systems, data pipelines, model serving, and inference optimization.
  • Strong background in large-scale distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and containerization.
  • Hands-on experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, MLflow, Kubeflow, and Airflow.
  • Expert-level proficiency in at least one of Python, Java, or C++.
  • Deep understanding of video processing pipelines, H.264, HEVC, AV1, and streaming technologies.
  • Experience deploying and scaling video understanding or multimodal AI models in production.
  • Knowledge of quantization, pruning, knowledge distillation, and efficient inference.
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to align technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or a related field, with 10–13 years of development experience preferred.
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