Runway · 18 hours ago
Research Tooling & Data Platform Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$240K/yr - $290K/yr
4+ years expRunway is a company focused on building AI to simulate the world through the merging of art and science. They are seeking a Research Tooling & Data Platform Engineer to own the internal exploratory data analysis platform, helping accelerate research velocity and enabling better decision-making across the company.
AppsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningSoftwareVideo Editing
Hiring Manager
Lauren Saltus (she/her)
Responsibilities
Own the EDA platform end-to-end : Take full ownership of architecture, infrastructure, feature development, and operations
Optimize for scale : Improve query performance and write efficiency for vector search, integrate with new data warehouses, and optimize our custom query parsing/suggestion system
Build for researchers : Design and ship features that help ML researchers source data faster, run more effective evaluations, and iterate quickly
Enable cross-functional users : Work with design, product, and creative teams to build intuitive evaluation workflows
Manage infrastructure : Deploy and maintain services across ECS and Kubernetes, including embedding services and database integrations
Provide support : Be responsive to user needs, debug issues quickly, and gather feedback to prioritize improvements
Qualification
Required
4+ years of industry experience in a backend focused software engineering role
Strong experience in at least 2 of 3 areas (platform/infrastructure, ML domain knowledge, frontend/product engineering) with eagerness to learn the third
Platform/infrastructure: experience with vector databases, cloud primitives (i.e. SQS, ECR, Kinesis) and container orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS)
ML domain knowledge: Understanding of ML workflows, model training, evaluation, testing, dataset management, feature engineering, or research tooling
Product engineering: Ability to build clean, intuitive user experiences with product thinking and user empathy. You care deeply about building tools people love to use (TypeScript/React experience is a plus)
Comfortable setting up and maintaining production infrastructure and services
Self-starter who can navigate ambiguity and make pragmatic technical decisions
Humility and open mindedness; at Runway we love to learn from one another
Company
Runway
Runway is a global AI research and technology company building foundational research models and tools to create multimodal world simulators.
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$544.5MKey Investors
General AtlanticSalesforce VenturesFelicis
2025-04-03Series D· $308M
2023-06-29Series C· $141M
2022-12-05Series C· $50M
Leadership Team
Cristobal Valenzuela Barrera
Co-founder & CEO
Anastasis Germanidis
Co-Founder & CTO
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