Job description

About the Team

You are a self-driven rockstar engineer who thrives in a fast-paced environment. You have excellent software development skills and a strong background in Machine learning and AI. You constantly strive to improve yourself and the team. You are eager to apply your expertise in solving cutting-edge AI/ML and genAI expertise to bring new insights to our video and audio content understanding, impacting what millions of people see everyday.

Join a cutting-edge technology team focused on advancing video understanding through large video models, leveraging multimodal AI and large language models to transform video content analysis and generation. The pace of our growth is incredible – if you want to tackle hard and interesting problems at scale, and create an impact within an entrepreneurial environment, join us!

Role Overview

We are seeking a Lead Staff Software Engineer to architect, develop, and lead the implementation of state-of-the-art video understanding solutions using large-scale video models (Vid-LLMs). This role involves exploring the AI technology landscape, leveraging open source multimodal AI solutions and driving technical strategy and defining product roadmap to deliver scalable, high-impact video AI custom solutions to address JioHotstar’s use cases.

Your Key Responsibilities:

Lead design and development of large video model-based solutions for video & audio understanding for aiding content production, generation and personalization.

Innovate, build POCs leveraging genAI applications to cater to growing business needs and drive for end to end productionizing.

Develop and implement novel AI-powered video enhancement and manipulation algorithms, including super-resolution, automatic editing, colorization, and content generation.

Architect scalable, efficient systems for processing and analyzing long-form video data using advanced vision-language models and streaming encoding techniques.

Establish best practices for model deployment, evaluation, and continuous improvement in production environments.

Represent the company in industry forums related to video AI and large language models.

Skills and attributes for success:

Deep expertise in machine learning, computer vision, and large-scale genAI systems, especially with image & video data.

Hands-on experience building video understanding and generation solutions using multimodal AI models such as Hunyuan, Wanx, Runway, Sora, Veo2/3 and deploying at scale

Hands-on experience in custom training of existing multimodal models with PEFT, LoRA

Working knowledge of techniques such as RAG, (e.g., FAISS, Pinecone, Milvus), and advanced prompt engineering for optimizing model performance.

Experience in large-scale distributed systems, cloud-computing, GPU based processing of AI/ML modelsUnderstanding of audio and video internals and production workflows, streaming formats and processing techniques

Strong communication skills to lead technical discussions and align teams on strategy.

This is a unique opportunity to lead innovation at the intersection of AI and video technology, shaping the future of video content understanding for millions of users globally.

Preferred Education and Experience:

BE/B.Tech in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering or equivalent.

MS or PhD a plusExpert in C++ or Java, Python and object-oriented programming and experience building AI models.

8+ years experience in software development, with excellent problem solving and debugging skills

About Us

Perched firmly at the nucleus of spellbinding content and innovative technology, JioStar is a leading global media & entertainment company that is reimagining the way audiences consume entertainment and sports. Its television network and streaming service together reach more than 750 million viewers every week, igniting the dreams and aspirations of hundreds of million people across geographies.

JioStar is an equal opportunity employer. The company values diversity and its mission is to create a workplace where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work. The company ensures that the work environment is free from any discrimination against persons with disabilities, gender, gender identity and any other characteristics or status that is legally protected.

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