Vision Engineer, Reality Defender

• The ideal candidate will have expertise in video processing pipelines, data engineering at scale, and experience working with large, diverse video datasets
• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, or a related STEM field
• 3-6+ years of experience in data engineering or another developer role with a focus on video data
• Strong software development experience in Python or a systems programming language, with experience using video processing libraries (e.g. libav, OpenCV)
• Experience with video dataset augmentation and processing
• Experience building systems on cloud infrastructure
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases

Desirable

• We are looking for a Data Engineer (Video Data) to enhance video ingestion, processing, and augmentation workflows to support our deepfake detection models and benchmarking efforts
• You’ll work on building scalable, high-performance workflows for acquiring, storing, and transforming large-scale video datasets
• You will collaborate with machine learning engineers and researchers to optimize data workflows, ensuring high-quality input for AI-driven fraud detection and disinformation mitigation
• Video Ingestion & Processing: Build scalable pipelines for batch and streaming video data, automating preprocessing, transcoding, and augmentation
• Infrastructure Optimization: Optimize video storage, retrieval, and transformation workflows, including compression, metadata extraction, and format conversions
• Data Sourcing & Augmentation: Expand video dataset coverage through API integrations, web scraping, and social media ingestion
• Collaboration & Research Support: Partner with ML teams to enhance training datasets, support benchmarking efforts, and contribute to synthetic media generation