Senior ML Engineer, Medal.tv
$200-300k
Offers Equity
Offers relocation package
5 days a week in office
Social platform for short-form gaming video clips
Open for applications
Social platform for short-form gaming video clips
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$200-300k
Offers Equity
Offers relocation package
5 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To connect people by creating memories while they are physically apart!
Role
Who you are
- You will thrive here if you love shipping production ML systems, obsess over output quality, and want to work on hard problems with real user impact
- We’re looking for someone who is interested in building the AI user experience for the future
- We punch above our weight so we value extreme ownership, accountability, and proactiveness
- The ideal candidate is a master craftsman who enjoys building great products with LLMs at scale
- 4+ years in ML/AI engineering, with significant experience shipping production systems
- Strong software engineering fundamentals: you write clean, maintainable code
- Deep experience with retrieval, ranking, RAG, or search systems at scale
- Hands on proficiency with PyTorch, vector databases, and modern ML infrastructure
- Experience with LLM applications (prompt engineering, fine tuning, eval frameworks)
- Product thinker: understands how to connect great ML products to constraints, evals, and modeling when building them
- A bias toward action: you ship fast, measure rigorously, and iterate based on data
- Ownership mentality (no task is too small for you) – it’s all hands on deck here and we need everyone rowing the boat
- Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset – we’re extremely lean so we’re looking for a team player who works well with others
- Type-A tendencies: maybe you’re extremely detail-oriented. Or maybe you take pride in shipping high-quality products. Whatever it is you do, you give it your all
- Must be based in or willing to relocate to NYC or SF – although we’re flexible with days off & schedules, we have a 100% in-office culture during the week
- And even if you don’t fall neatly into any of these buckets, we’re looking for scrappy and motivated self-starters above all. Hustle is expected, grit is required
What the job involves
- We're hiring a Senior ML Engineer to help build the AI systems that power Highlight
- You will work across the full ML stack: data pipelines, model training, retrieval, ranking, evals, and deployment. You will ship features that make Highlight feel like magic
- This is a hands on IC role where you will own critical systems end to end and collaborate closely with our Head of AI Engineering to scale our ML capabilities
- Design, build, and optimize ML pipelines for context retrieval, action detection, and output generation
- Implement and iterate on RAG systems, ranking models, and prompt engineering to improve quality
- Build comprehensive evals and monitoring to measure and improve ML system performance
- Investigate alternative models and fine tuning approaches for our heavy background processing workloads, implementing better systems to increase quality while improving cost efficiency
- Collaborate with Backend and Product Engineering to ship AI powered features
- Contribute to ML infrastructure decisions and best practices across the engineering org
- Stay current on LLM advances, retrieval techniques, and ML tooling; bring insights back to the team
Our take
Video games have become highly social experiences due to multiplayer gaming, eSports and social media, spawning a huge market for audiences who enjoy watching gaming-related video content. Gamers commonly stream games and edit the footage to produce memes and engage with friends, but this requires many software tools and a separate platform on which to share experiences.
Medal.tv provides a social platform for gaming video clips, allowing users to record and edit footage, make gaming memes, and share content with friends within the same software. The platform collects in-game data to mitigate cheating and cyberbullying and integrates directly into any Windows or Android game.
Whilst the company will face great competition from platform giants such as Youtube, TikTok and Twitch, Medal.tv shows the potential to stand out by being specifically designed for gaming content. Furthermore, the platform’s accessible video capturing and editing interface keeps the end-to-end social gaming experience within the same platform, making it more convenient and immersive for gamers than on other platforms.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jul 2024
$13m
LATE VC
Dec 2021
$45m
SERIES C
Total funding: $86.1m
Company HQ
Flatiron District, New York, NY
Leadership
Joshua Lipson
(Co-Founder & Chief Architect)Co-founder and Chief Architect at Highlight. Full Stack Developer and CTO of Soulsplit from 2013 to 2015.
Iggy Harmsen
(Co-Founder & Product Design)Worked in CS & Marketing for Soulsplit from 2012 to 2015.
Ken Colton
(CEO)Joined the company as Lead Software Engineer in 2021, becoming CTO then President then CEO. Previously Lead Software Engineer at Gif Your Game, Technical Lead at Grubhub and CTO at Material World Co. Co-founded and was Front-End Lead at Twubs.
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