Sr Software Engineer, Video Intelligence
Vivint · Washington, United States · 2 wk ago
Engineering$150k–$180k/yrFull-time
About the role
We are seeking a Sr Video Intelligence Engineer to advance video understanding. This role will build video-language, summarization, context, and event-reasoning capabilities that improve camera intelligence and customer trust.
Responsibilities
- Own VLM strategy, video-language understanding, temporal video reasoning, event understanding, and multimodal embeddings.
- Improve AI Video Search, video summarization, alert relevance, recognition support, and false-alert reduction.
- Build and evaluate systems that generate useful natural-language descriptions, insights, and summaries from video.
- Partner with AI, platform, product, and app teams to move models from research to production.
- Develop production evaluation methods for precision, recall, grounding, latency, safety, and customer usefulness.
- Guide architecture decisions across cloud, edge, and hybrid inference paths for video intelligence.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, AI/ML, or a related technical field, and 5+ years of professional experience in software development, applied science, or ML engineering; or
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, AI/ML, or a related technical field, and 2+ years of professional experience in software development, applied science, or ML engineering
- Experience with LLMs, vision-language models, multimodal AI, or generative AI systems
- Strong Python software engineering skills
- Experience processing, analyzing, or serving video content at scale
- Familiarity with event detection, summarization, semantic understanding, embeddings, or model evaluation
- Experience deploying AI services into production with Git and CI/CD workflows
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience generating natural-language descriptions, summaries, or searchable representations from video
- Experience with multimodal foundation models, temporal video understanding, re-identification, or vector retrieval
- Experience improving precision/recall, reducing false alerts, or evaluating customer-facing camera AI
- Experience with smart home, security camera, IoT, edge/cloud, or real-time inference architectures
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, GCP/AWS, or production model monitoring
Benefits
The base salary range for this position is: $150K to $180K