Senior Staff Infrastructure Engineer, Twelve Labs
$180-210k
+ Equity
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AI-enabled video understanding technology
Open for applications
AI-enabled video understanding technology
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$180-210k
+ Equity
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To build the best video understanding platform driven by leading perceptual-reasoning research
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of experience as an infrastructure engineer
- Experience building and operating infrastructure in cloud environments such as AWS, GCP, and Azure
- Hands-on experience with IaC (Infrastructure as Code) tools such as Terraform or Ansible
- Experience operating container-based workloads with Kubernetes
- Scripting and automation experience with languages such as Python, Go, or TypeScript
- Experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines
Desirable
- Experience designing and operating multi-tenant architectures in enterprise SaaS environments
- Experience designing infrastructure architectures aligned with security and compliance standards, including audit support
- Experience building advanced monitoring and logging systems
- Proven ability to operate infrastructure optimized for both performance and cost efficiency
What the job involves
- As an Infrastructure Engineer at TwelveLabs, you will design and build the core infrastructure that allows our AI SaaS platform to operate stably and scale effectively
- You will work across both cloud and on-premise environments, developing robust system architectures to support large-scale video AI foundation models
- In our fast-paced startup environment, you will optimize for performance, security, and flexibility while collaborating closely with multiple teams across the company
- Design and operate multi-tenant architectures for global enterprise customers
- Develop scalable CI/CD pipelines with Terraform automation
- Build flexible infrastructure spanning AWS, GCP, Azure, and on-premise environments
- Optimize cloud infrastructure for security and efficiency with advanced monitoring and security frameworks
- Design scalable architectures to rapidly support new video AI models and services
- Collaborate with PMs, engineers, and researchers to bring AI products to life
Our take
Developing an algorithm that can understand text or images is (relatively) straightforward. However, the challenge escalates when it comes to understanding video, where these modes merge with audio, and context becomes much harder to grasp.
Twelve Labs has developed a machine learning solution that tackles this challenge by making the inner content of videos both indexable for developers and highly searchable for users. This technology could prove immensely valuable, with use cases extending far beyond simple searchability for end users. It could be employed for more accurate monitoring of community guidelines on social media, enterprise knowledge searches, and a deeper understanding of the value of video content.
With recent funding under its belt, Twelve Labs is set for rapid growth. The investment will drive R&D, nearly double its workforce, and advance its video understanding technology. As it expands, Twelve Labs is well-positioned to lead the future of multimodal AI and revolutionize how organizations extract values from video content.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Oct 2025
$3m
EARLY VC
Dec 2024
$30m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $110.2m
Company benefits
- Full health, dental, and vision benefits
- Extremely flexible PTO and parental leave policy. Office closed the week of Christmas and New Years
- Remote-flexible, offices in San Francisco and Seoul and coworking stipend
- VISA support (such as H1B and OPT transfer for US employees)
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Jae Lee
(Co-Founder & CEO)After Interning as a Software Engineer at Samsung and Amazon, they joined the Republic of Korea's Cyber Operations Command as a Lead Data Scientist. Co-founded Twelve Labs after this period of military service.
Aiden Lee
(Co-Founder & CTO)Interned at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) as a Deep Learning Researcher. Completed their National Defense duty as an AI & ML Engineer in the Cyber Operations Command.
Sung Jun (SJ) Kim
(Co-Founder)Served for the Ministry of National Defense as a Lead Software Engineer in the Cyber Operations Command. Before this, they were a Cyber Security Research Scientist at Sungkyunkwan University.
Dave Chung
(Co-Founder)Previously a Project Team Lead at the Institute of East and West Studies (IEWS) at Yonsei University, focusing on the planning and development of the Korean Web 3.0 ecosystem (Funded by the Ministry of ICT).
Soyoung Lee
(Co-Founder)Worked in Risk Assurance for PricewaterhouseCoopers in Seoul before co-founding Twelve Labs.
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