Software Engineer, Twelve Labs

• 6+ years of industry experience
• Strong experience as a backend and/or data engineer, with an interest in ML/AI systems
• Managed data acquisition for large generative or contrastive models
• Strong Python expertise and considerable prior work history with at least one statically typed language (we use Golang)

Desirable

• As a Software Engineer, Data at Twelve Labs, you will build core data infrastructure for acquiring, preprocessing, cleaning, filtering, and labeling multimodal text-vision datasets for model training
• In this role, you will have a larger impact on the quality of our models than perhaps any other engineering role at the entire company: well filtered & labeled data is core to everything we do
• This role is a perfect fit for distributed systems engineers who want to advance video understanding by delivering world class systems for *unstructured* multimodal corpora
• Acquire, filter, label (leveraging techniques like RLAIF), and sanitize large-scale vision-language datasets for LLM/VLM pretraining
• Scale our data systems to enable our evolution from double-digit to triple-digit billion parameter models (and beyond!)
• Mentor junior engineers/researchers, and hold a high bar around code quality / engineering best practices
• Establish strong relationships with 3rd party data vendors and human-in-the-loop data labeling services
• Build the highest impact, not the flashiest, libraries and services
• Lead by example in interviewing, hiring, and onboarding passionate and empathetic engineers
• Work across teams to understand and manage project priorities and product deliverables, evaluate trade-offs, and drive technical initiatives from ideation to execution to shipment

• 1) Recruiter Phone Screen
• 2) Initial Technical Assessment
• 3) Final round technical assessment & culture interview
• 4) Reference Checks
• We're also excited to share that we'll do global onboarding in Seoul for all new hires (paid company travel!)