{"id":330692,"url":"https://alion.io/job/opusclip-ai-engineering-lead","title":"Lead AI Researcher","company":{"id":63348,"name":"OpusClip","domain":"opus.pro","url":"https://alion.io/company/opusclip","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":null},"role":"AI/ML","role_family":"AI/ML","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Mountain View, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":280000,"max":380000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":380000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Fine-tuning","optional":true},{"name":"Multimodal AI","optional":true},{"name":"Post-training","optional":true},{"name":"Quantization","optional":true},{"name":"Speech Recognition","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-02T20:05:37Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-02","last_verified_at":"2026-10-27T01:55:40Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":54,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":54},"description":"OpusClip is the world's No.1 AI video agent, built for authenticity on social media.\nWe envision a world where everyone can authentically share their story through video, with no expertise needed. Within just 18 months of our launch, over 20 million creators and businesses have used OpusClip to enhance their social presence.\nWe have raised $50 million in total funding and are fortunate to have some of the most supportive investors, including SoftBank Vision Fund, DCM Ventures, Millennium New Horizons, Fellows Fund, AI Grant, Jason Lemkin (SaaStr), Samsung Next, GTMfund, Alumni Ventures, and many more.\nCheck out our latest coverage by Business Insider featuring our product and funding milestones, and our recognition as one of The Information's 50 Most Promising Startups in 2024.\nHeadquartered in Mountain View, we are a team of 100 passionate and experienced AI enthusiasts and video experts, driven by our core values:\nBe a Champion Team\n\nPrioritize Ruthlessly\n\nShip fast, Quality Follows\n\nObsess over customers\n\nBe a part of this exciting journey with us!\nWe want to hire a hands-on Lead AI Researcher with strong technical depth. People management is a PLUS!\nWhat we are looking for\nProven experience shipping AI/ML models from prototype to production at scale.\n\nDeep expertise in model post-training, including fine-tuning, preference optimization, evaluation, and learning from user feedback. Experience building data flywheels that turn user behavior and feedback into training data and continuous model improvements.\n\nStrong inference optimization experience for self-hosted models, including latency, throughput, GPU utilization, quantization, and serving cost.\n\nStrong model evaluation skills, including offline benchmarks, human evaluation, online experiments, and product-quality metrics.\n\nPractical experience applying LLMs or multimodal models to video applications, such as highlight detection, content curation, ranking, personalization, and editing decisions.\n\nFamiliarity with video-related models and systems, including but not limited to vision-language models, ASR/transcription, video understanding, and enhancement/upscaling, etc..\n\nAble to make build-vs-buy decisions across proprietary APIs, open-source models, and internally trained models.\n\nCapable of setting the technical roadmap, reviewing architecture, mentoring engineers, and managing a small high-performing AI team.\n\nProduct-oriented and pragmatic: understands how to balance model quality, latency, reliability, and infrastructure cost.\n\nNice to have\nExperience with consumer video, creator tools, recommendation/content systems, or other high-scale multimodal products is plus.\n\nDistributed training infrastructure and inference optimization experience for self-hosted models: including latency, throughput, GPU utilization, quantization, and serving cost.\n\nFamiliarity with video-related models and systems: vision-language models, ASR/transcription, video understanding/reasoning/generation, and enhancement/upscaling\n\nEEO\nOpusClip is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. OpusClip considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Opus Clip is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures.","description_format":"text","description_chars":3750,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Media & Entertainment","Real Estate","Content Creation"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-05T17:25:35Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 10","filings_12m":10,"filings_prev_12m":6,"green_card_filings_12m":0,"median_offered_wage_usd":166000,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-15T11:24:14+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)"],"filings_for_role_12m":8}],"liveness":{"score":42,"band":"fade","label":"Fading","p_open":1,"p_active":0.759,"p_room":0.55,"age_days":53,"expected_fill_days":52,"reasons":["conf:3","win:tail"],"computed_at":"2026-10-26T05:57:25Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":380000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/opusclip-ai-engineering-lead","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/opusclip-ai-engineering-lead.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-27T02:55:58Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":2252,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-28T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":63348},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=63348"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fopusclip-ai-engineering-lead"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fopusclip-ai-engineering-lead"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fopusclip-ai-engineering-lead"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/opusclip-ai-engineering-lead\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fopusclip-ai-engineering-lead"}]}