Sieve · 4 months ago
Applied Research Engineer
San Francisco
Full-time
Onsite
Entry, Mid Level
2+ years expSieve is a video intelligence company focused on building novel video understanding systems. As an applied research engineer, you will develop high-performance building blocks and large-scale pipelines to analyze video data with precision, tackling complex research challenges.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud InfrastructureDeveloper APIsMachine LearningSoftwareVideo
Responsibilities
Build high performance building blocks and large scale pipelines to understand video with high precision at internet scale
Working on ambiguous research problems and finding clever techniques to solve them
Comfortable working with models + APIs and squeezing every drop of performance out of them through clever pre/post-processing, parallelism, pipelining, inference optimization, and occasionally fine-tuning
Qualification
Required
2+ years of experience in computer vision or audio processing
Strong Python developer with hands-on experience in PyTorch or similar ML frameworks
Excellent communication skills, especially with customers and external teams
Writes clean, maintainable code—bonus points for active GitHub or portfolio projects
Deep passion for the video domain and media technologies
Motivated by building end-to-end products—not just training models
In-person at our SF HQ
Preferred
Active contributor to open source projects
Experience as an early hire at a startup
Company
Sieve
Sieve supplies video data to frontier AI labs.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$4.12MKey Investors
Matrix
2022-11-14Seed· $4M
2022-03-29Pre Seed· $0.12M
Leadership Team
Mokshith Voodarla
Co-Founder, CEO
Abhinav A.
Co-Founder, CTO
Recent News
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