Machine Learning Software Engineer, Tavus
$160-250k
AI video cloning platform
Open for applications
AI video cloning platform
1-20 employees
Open for applications
$160-250k
1-20 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
- Self starter with a "get-stuff-done" attitude, highly motivated, and eager to learn
- At least 2-3 years of industry experience in software development or adjacent positions
- Deep experience with Python and PyTorch
- Knowledgable about video processing or video streaming
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Desirable
- Infrastructure and architecture experience (dev-ops, ml-ops)
- Experience developing low-latency applications (algorithm optimization, threading, multiprocessing, queue systems)
- Have trained or fine-tuned your own LLM
- Experience implementing research papers
- Have played Portal 1 and 2 (if not you'll need to play as part of onboarding )
What the job involves
- We're looking for an experienced ML-focused Software Engineer to work with the applied ML team. Our ideal partner-in-crime works well in startup environments, is comfortable wearing many hats, and is always down to take calculated risks. We're moving fast and not looking for people to come along for the ride - we're looking for people to pave the path
- Develop new features for Tavus utilizing computer vision and NLP models
- Take ownership of some key ML Ops items such as testing, CI/CD, or data processing pipelines
- Design and test new experiments to improve our core generative AI models
- Improve our existing technical foundations, and influence our technical direction and strategy
Our take
Tavus is an AI video cloning 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 the purpose of marketing, outreach, sales, recruiting and more while tailoring them to specific individuals.
Other players in field include Loom and Vidyard, both of which have proven the value of personalized videos for businesses, but whose services take time. Tavus is scalable as its platform can generate thousands of personalized 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 creates for 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 are young, but are expanding quickly, having being backed by Sequoia and Y Combinator, amongst other top firms, and have the funds to accelerate development and growth moving forward.
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)Previously co-founded Chime Menu before starting Tavus.
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