Principal AI Engineer, Media Pipelines
Quick Summary
Pipeline Architecture: Define the architecture for media ingestion, transformation, quality assurance, and delivery. Make key decisions about orchestration, data models, service boundaries,
You are an experienced, product-minded engineer who combines deep systems expertise with practical generative AI experience.
Take a leading technical role in building AI-powered media transformation systems that help creators and media brands extend the reach of their content across platforms and languages. As a Principal Engineer, you will define the architecture and technical roadmap for pipelines that transform large media catalogs into short-form videos, multilingual dubs, and formats optimized for AI-powered discovery. You will combine hands-on engineering with strategic decision-making across multimodal AI, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure. A key focus will be improving processing speed, controlling inference costs, and ensuring consistently high-quality outputs at scale. Working closely with AI specialists and cross-functional leaders, you will establish engineering standards and guide critical features from experimentation to production. This is an opportunity to shape a rapidly evolving product while solving complex challenges at the intersection of AI, media, and enterprise reliability.
You will own the technical direction and hands-on delivery of the core media transformation pipeline, ensuring that it remains scalable, cost-efficient, reliable, and adaptable as models and customer needs evolve. Your responsibilities will include:
Requirements
~2 min readYou are an experienced, product-minded engineer who combines deep systems expertise with practical generative AI experience. You are comfortable making high-impact technical decisions in an evolving environment, validating assumptions through experimentation, and taking responsibility for production outcomes.
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Technical ownership: Lead the architecture and technical direction of a core AI product while remaining hands-on with critical engineering work.
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Product impact: Build AI-powered tools that help creators and media brands distribute content across platforms, languages, and AI-driven discovery channels.
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Advanced AI challenges: Work across multimodal AI, model orchestration, speech technologies, video processing, and large-scale distributed systems.
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Engineering autonomy: Influence technology choices, architecture, vendor strategy, and the product roadmap.
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Cross-functional collaboration: Work closely with AI engineering specialists and organizational leaders to translate ambitious product goals into production systems.
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Professional growth: Establish engineering standards, mentor other engineers, and help shape the technical foundations of an evolving AI product.
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Location & Eligibility
About this job
- Who can apply
- United States
- Posted
- 2 days ago
Listing Details
- Posted
- October 20, 2026
- First seen
- October 20, 2026
- Last seen
- October 23, 2026
Posting Health
- Days active
- 1
- Repost count
- 0
- Trust Level
- 68%
- Scored at
- October 22, 2026
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