Senior Data Engineer, Tavus
$150-200k
Offers Equity
AI video cloning platform
Open for applications
AI video cloning platform
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$150-200k
Offers Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To allow companies to maintain important personal connections with their future customers and partners, all while saving time, effort, and costs.
Role
Who you are
- You don’t just maintain - you build. From zero to fully running pipelines, you make things happen. You can take charge of how we use internal data to make smarter decisions
- Extreme ownership - You own data strategy end-to-end, proactively solving what data we need, where to get it, and how to structure it for AI impact
- Strategic mindset – You think beyond pipelines—you anticipate data needs before they arise and help shape AI development at Tavus
- Previous work with LLMs, multimodal data, is a big plus. You know how to source, structure, and optimize data for real AI impact
- Automation expert – You know how to automate data cleaning, structuring, and labeling workflows for efficiency and scale
- ML-first mindset – You understand that better data = better models and structure datasets to maximize AI model accuracy
- Fast, but flawless. Speed matters, but so does accuracy. You balance both
- You don’t follow best practices—you create them. A lot of what we’re doing is new- you set the standard for how data should be done
- Technical expertise – You have strong experience with Python, SQL, and large-scale data processing tools
What the job involves
- Data is the foundation of everything we build. We’re looking for a Senior Data Engineer who goes beyond pipelines and cleaning datasets
- You’ll own our entire data strategy, from sourcing and curating to structuring and optimizing, ensuring our models and products are powered by the highest-quality data possible
- You’re a true master of your craft including data sourcing, formatting, labeling, cleaning, and making use of our internal data
- Be a data visionary – You anticipate the data needs not just for today, but for the future. You know how to curate diverse, high-quality datasets to ensure AI models reach their full potential
- You should have a product minded approach, and clearly understand the bigger picture of our mission and the importance of data to that. You’re constantly thinking about what data is missing for our next phase of models
- Influence AI model training – Your data work will directly impact AI model performance, efficiency, and inference accuracy. You will collaborate closely with ML engineers to optimize datasets for maximum AI effectiveness
- Own the data, end-to-end – from sourcing to structuring—so it’s clean, scalable, and actually useful
- Be a data hunter – Web scraping, third-party deals, unconventional sources—you’ll find, collect, and curate the best multimodal data (text, video, images) to power our models. Manage large-scale data procurement to ensure our models train on the highest quality information
- Master video data – AI-generated video has unique challenges, from proper classification and segmentation to structuring it for machine learning training. You will own this challenge and ensure that our video datasets are structured for AI success
- Optimize labeling & automation – You will own the data labeling process and build automated workflows to make cleaning, labeling, and structuring data as efficient as possible. Work closely with our data annotation teams to ensure high-quality labeled data for ML models
- Turn internal data into gold – Our own platform is a goldmine of insights—help us unlock and use it to drive smarter decisions and supercharge growth
- Speed + precision – Move fast, but don’t break data. Every pipeline, dataset, and workflow should be tight, efficient, and built to last
Our take
Tavus is an AI video cloning tool that uses synthetic media, more popularly known as ‘deepfakes’, for companies to produce customizable and scalable content. The platform enables businesses to create videos for marketing, outreach, sales, recruiting and more while tailoring them to specific individuals.
Other players in the field include Loom and Vidyard, both of which have proven the value of personalised videos for businesses, but whose services take time. Tavus is scalable as its platform can generate thousands of personalised videos in the time it would take to record just one. The videos generated currently come with imperfections, notably the lip-syncing and video-cloning, which Tavus tenuously claims create more engaging content.
Synthetic media was called upon heavily during the pandemic, as companies created AI-copilots that could host conferences and pitches remotely, so it will be interesting to see how this industry continues to grow as time goes on. Tavus is young, but is expanding quickly with new products like its Phoenix-3 and Raven-0 models, having been backed by Sequoia and Y Combinator, amongst other top firms. Off the back of 2024 Series A funding, it has the means to accelerate development and growth.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Mar 2024
$18m
SERIES A
Mar 2023
$6.1m
SEED
Total funding: $24.1m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage for employees and their families, with 100% of monthly premiums paid by Tavus
- Unlimited paid time off, as well as parental and pawental leave
- Flexible hours
- Remote-friendly, with teams at home or in co-working spaces across the globe
- Frequent in person meet ups
- Generous gear stipend
- Company retreats
- Yearly stipend for you to spend on any learning materials (i.e. newsletters, online courses, etc.)
- Debate and feedback are cornerstones of our culture
- Progressive, open-minded meritocracy
- Team members from diverse backgrounds – we’re looking for culture creators, not culture fits
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Hassaan Raza
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously co-founded Accantus. Served as Engineering Project Manager for Apple and Technical Program Manager for Google before spending 6 years at Simublade as Senior Product Manager and later as Director of Product Development.
Quinn Favret
(Co-Founder & COO)Previously co-founded Chime Menu before starting Tavus.
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