Proximity Works

• Translate ambiguous product or business requirements into clear technical specifications, system designs, and validation plans. • Build, maintain, and scale AI-powered production systems and agentic applications. • Design workflows where LLMs, VLMs, tools, APIs, retrieval systems, and traditional microservices work together reliably. • Use AI-assisted development tools while maintaining code quality, security, performance, and long-term maintainability. • Prevent AI-generated code bloat, dead code, and unnecessary complexity. • Build observability, evaluation, testing, and monitoring systems for AI-generated outputs. • Optimize prompts, model selection, workflows, and inference cost. • Apply Responsible AI principles including safety, privacy, fairness, transparency, and accountability. • Work with cross-functional teams across product, engineering, security, data, and design. • Mentor engineers to move from implementation-heavy development to system orchestration and AI-first engineering practices.

Role Description An AI Development Engineer is responsible for solving complex engineering problems by using AI to improve speed, quality, and cost efficiency. This role reimagines traditional software engineering for an AI-augmented world — moving from coding-heavy execution to system orchestration, structured thinking, validation, and agentic application development. The ideal candidate is a strong hands-on engineer who can work with AI tools, foundation models, multimodal systems, and research-driven implementation to build reliable, scalable, production-ready AI applications. Key Responsibilities - Translate ambiguous product or business requirements into clear technical specifications, system designs, and validation plans. - Build, maintain, and scale AI-powered production systems and agentic applications. - Design workflows where LLMs, VLMs, tools, APIs, retrieval systems, and traditional microservices work together reliably. - Use AI-assisted development tools while maintaining code quality, security, performance, and long-term maintainability. - Prevent AI-generated code bloat, dead code, and unnecessary complexity. - Build observability, evaluation, testing, and monitoring systems for AI-generated outputs. - Optimize prompts, model selection, workflows, and inference cost. - Apply Responsible AI principles including safety, privacy, fairness, transparency, and accountability. - Work with cross-functional teams across product, engineering, security, data, and design. - Mentor engineers to move from implementation-heavy development to system orchestration and AI-first engineering practices. Qualifications - Strong software engineering fundamentals and hands-on experience building production-grade systems. - Experience in one or more modalities such as vision/images, video, text, audio, speech. - Deeper knowledge and hands-on experience with LLMs, VLMs, multimodal AI systems, and foundation model architectures. - Ability to actively find, read, understand, and implement ideas from AI research papers. - Experience building or integrating agentic applications, AI copilots, RAG systems, workflow automation, or multimodal GenAI systems. - Strong understanding of system design, APIs, data flows, testing, observability, security, and production reliability. - Practical experience with prompt engineering, context engineering, model evaluation, benchmarking, and AI workflow orchestration. - Ability to convert ambiguous requirements into structured specs, implementation plans, and validation frameworks. - Strong debugging, problem-solving, communication, ownership, and learning agility. Requirements - NOTE: This is a 6-month contractual role, with the possibility of extension based on performance and business requirements. Benefits - Best-in-class salary: We hire strong talent and compensate accordingly. - Proximity Talks: Meet and learn from designers, engineers, product leaders, and AI practitioners. - Continuous learning: Work with a world-class team and stay close to the latest in AI, engineering, and product development. - High-impact work: Build AI-first systems and products used at scale by global clients. Company Description Proximity is the trusted technology, design, and consulting partner for some of the biggest Sports, Media, and Entertainment companies in the world. We’re headquartered in San Francisco and have offices in Palo Alto, Dubai, Mumbai, and Bangalore. Since 2019, Proximity has built high-impact, scalable products used by millions of users every day. Today, we are a global team of engineers, designers, product managers, and experts solving complex problems and building cutting-edge technology at scale.

• Translate ambiguous product or business requirements into clear technical specifications, system designs, and validation plans. • Build, maintain, and scale AI-powered production systems and agentic applications. • Design workflows where LLMs, VLMs, tools, APIs, retrieval systems, and traditional microservices work together reliably. • Use AI-assisted development tools while maintaining code quality, security, performance, and long-term maintainability. • Prevent AI-generated code bloat, dead code, and unnecessary complexity. • Build observability, evaluation, testing, and monitoring systems for AI-generated outputs. • Optimize prompts, model selection, workflows, and inference cost. • Apply Responsible AI principles including safety, privacy, fairness, transparency, and accountability. • Work with cross-functional teams across product, engineering, security, data, and design. • Mentor engineers to move from implementation-heavy development to system orchestration and AI-first engineering practices.

Role Description An AI Development Engineer is responsible for solving complex engineering problems by using AI to improve speed, quality, and cost efficiency. This role reimagines traditional software engineering for an AI-augmented world — moving from coding-heavy execution to system orchestration, structured thinking, validation, and agentic application development. The ideal candidate is a strong hands-on engineer who can work with AI tools, foundation models, multimodal systems, and research-driven implementation to build reliable, scalable, production-ready AI applications. Key Responsibilities - Translate ambiguous product or business requirements into clear technical specifications, system designs, and validation plans. - Build, maintain, and scale AI-powered production systems and agentic applications. - Design workflows where LLMs, VLMs, tools, APIs, retrieval systems, and traditional microservices work together reliably. - Use AI-assisted development tools while maintaining code quality, security, performance, and long-term maintainability. - Prevent AI-generated code bloat, dead code, and unnecessary complexity. - Build observability, evaluation, testing, and monitoring systems for AI-generated outputs. - Optimize prompts, model selection, workflows, and inference cost. - Apply Responsible AI principles including safety, privacy, fairness, transparency, and accountability. - Work with cross-functional teams across product, engineering, security, data, and design. - Mentor engineers to move from implementation-heavy development to system orchestration and AI-first engineering practices. Qualifications - Strong software engineering fundamentals and hands-on experience building production-grade systems. - Experience in one or more modalities such as: - Vision/images - Video - Text - Audio - Speech - Deeper knowledge and hands-on experience with LLMs, VLMs, multimodal AI systems, and foundation model architectures. - Ability to actively find, read, understand, and implement ideas from AI research papers. - Experience building or integrating agentic applications, AI copilots, RAG systems, workflow automation, or multimodal GenAI systems. - Strong understanding of system design, APIs, data flows, testing, observability, security, and production reliability. - Practical experience with prompt engineering, context engineering, model evaluation, benchmarking, and AI workflow orchestration. - Ability to convert ambiguous requirements into structured specs, implementation plans, and validation frameworks. - Strong debugging, problem-solving, communication, ownership, and learning agility. Benefits - Best-in-class salary: We hire strong talent and compensate accordingly. - Proximity Talks: Meet and learn from designers, engineers, product leaders, and AI practitioners. - Continuous learning: Work with a world-class team and stay close to the latest in AI, engineering, and product development. - High-impact work: Build AI-first systems and products used at scale by global clients.

Role Description A Soundscaper is responsible for sound design, editing, mixing, and overall creating the aural tone and flow for innovative content developed leveraging a state-of-the-art AI-driven platform. This job reimagines the role of the Sound Designer, Editor, and Mixer and requires experience with sound creation, orchestration, integration, and delivering compelling final audio for GenAI contemporary short form content (Microdramas, Web Series, Creator Content, etc.) that meets quality standards. - Craft the soundscapes: Use standard nonlinear editing tools and AI tools to generate and align dialog, add SFX and tone, source (or create) and integrate music, and deliver a final sound mix on a daily basis, leveraging an understanding of the audio storytelling language of contemporary short-form content. - Music generation: Familiarity with AI music generation to create tracks that fit the narrative and tone of each project. - AI innovation: Work with technical teams to help bring more AI capabilities into the audio production workflow by helping develop policies, guardrails, creation prompts, validation prompts, and agentic architectures that become force multipliers for the entire team. - Prompt engineering: Develop and refine specific prompts for AI audio generation and editing. - Familiarity with filmmaking or animation: Understand traditional foundations, principles and procedures of producing filmed entertainment, especially serialized short form content. - Edit and refine AI-generated content: Conduct human review and editing of AI drafts to enhance quality, resulting in a compelling audio narrative for the audience. - Collaboration: Work closely with the AI Media Developers to ensure shots being generated are coherent, consistent, and result in a compelling audio narrative. - Learning Agility: Proven ability to rapidly learn new technologies, platforms, and complex processes. Keep up-to-date with advancements in editorial AI creative tools. - Basic experience in film, TV, or digital video full-stack audio production, with a portfolio showcasing your skills. - Proficiency in using audio production tools and nonlinear editing tools. - Picture editing experience a plus. - Generative AI content creation experience in audio required, in image and video a plus. - Understanding of content production principles and workflows. - Excellent attention to detail and creativity. - Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment. - Strong communication skills and openness to feedback. Qualifications - Proficiency in using audio production tools and nonlinear editing tools. - Basic experience in film, TV, or digital video full-stack audio production, with a portfolio showcasing your skills. - Generative AI content creation experience in audio required, in image and video a plus. Requirements - Excellent attention to detail and creativity. - Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment. - Strong communication skills and openness to feedback. Benefits - Best in class salary: We hire only the best, and we pay accordingly. - Proximity Talks: Meet other designers, engineers, and product geeks — and learn from experts in the field. - Keep on learning with a world-class team: Work with the best in the field, challenge yourself constantly, and learn something new every day. Company Description Proximity is the trusted technology, design, and consulting partner for some of the biggest Sports, Media, and Entertainment companies in the world! We’re headquartered in San Francisco and have offices in Palo Alto, Dubai, Mumbai, and Bangalore. Since 2019, Proximity has created and grown high-impact, scalable products used by 370 million daily users, with a total net worth of $45.7 billion among our client companies. Today, we are a global team of coders, designers, product managers, geeks, and experts. We solve complex problems and build cutting-edge tech, at scale. Our team of Proxonauts is growing quickly, which means your impact on the company’s success will be huge. You’ll have the chance to work with experienced leaders who have built and led multiple tech, product, and design teams.

Role Description A Visual Mixmaster is responsible for visual storytelling excitement, coherence, timing, pacing, and scene flow in innovative content developed leveraging a state-of-the-art AI-driven platform. This role reimagines the job of Editor for an AI-augmented world and requires film editing, VFX, motion graphics, and colorist skills to deliver compelling final picture edits for GenAI contemporary short form content (Microdramas, Web Series, Creator Content, etc.) - Craft the final video: Use standard nonlinear editing tools, colorist tools, and AI tools to retime, rearrange, and visually polish short form content on a daily basis. - AI innovation: Work with technical teams to help bring more AI capabilities into the editorial and scene finaling workflow. - Prompt engineering: Develop and refine specific prompts for AI shot editing. - Familiarity with filmmaking or animation: Understand traditional foundations, principles, and procedures of producing filmed entertainment, especially serialized short form content. - Edit and refine AI-generated content: Conduct human review and editing of AI drafts to enhance quality. - Collaboration: Work closely with the AI Media Developers to ensure shots being generated are coherent and consistent. - Learning Agility: Proven ability to rapidly learn new technologies, platforms, and complex processes. - Experience in film, TV, or digital video editing, with a portfolio showcasing your skills. - Proficiency in using nonlinear editing, motion graphics, VFX, and color timing tools. - Dialog and sound editing and mixing proficiency a plus. - Generative AI content creation experience a plus. - Understanding of content production principles and workflows. - Excellent attention to detail and creativity. - Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment. - Strong communication skills and openness to feedback. Benefits - Best in class salary: We hire only the best, and we pay accordingly. - Proximity Talks: Meet other designers, engineers, and product geeks — and learn from experts in the field. - Keep on learning with a world-class team: Work with the best in the field, challenge yourself constantly, and learn something new every day. Company Description Proximity is the trusted technology, design, and consulting partner for some of the biggest Sports, Media, and Entertainment companies in the world! We’re headquartered in San Francisco and have offices in Palo Alto, Dubai, Mumbai, and Bangalore. Since 2019, Proximity has created and grown high-impact, scalable products used by 370 million daily users, with a total net worth of $45.7 billion among our client companies. Today, we are a global team of coders, designers, product managers, geeks, and experts. We solve complex problems and build cutting-edge tech, at scale. Our team of Proxonauts is growing quickly, which means your impact on the company’s success will be huge. You’ll have the chance to work with experienced leaders who have built and led multiple tech, product, and design teams.

Role Description A Visionscaper is responsible for conceiving and generating engaging and innovative multimodal generative AI content leveraging a state-of-the-art AI-driven platform. This role reimagines the job of Director for an AI-augmented world and requires a blend of creative and tech abilities to generate and refine AI outputs and work with teammates to create and deliver GenAI contemporary short-form content (Microdramas, Web Series, Creator Content, etc.) Key Responsibilities - Generate content with AI: Use inhouse media studio platform to produce original text, images, videos, and other assets. - Responsible AI: Foundational understanding of the principles of Responsible AI, including concepts like fairness, transparency, and data privacy. - AI innovation: Work with technical teams to help bring more AI capabilities into the multimodal generative AI content generation workflow by helping develop policies, guardrails, creation prompts, validation prompts, and agentic architectures that become force multipliers for the entire team. - Prompt engineering: Develop and refine specific prompts and instructions for AI tools to ensure the generated content is high-quality, relevant, and consistent with the brand's style. - Character, Location, and Keyframe creation: Build input images for AI video generation using prompts and/or sketches. - Familiarity with filmmaking or animation: Understand traditional foundations, principles and procedures of producing filmed entertainment, especially serialized short form content. - Edit and refine AI-generated content: Conduct human review and editing of AI drafts to enhance quality, add nuanced or creative elements, and ensure accuracy. - Collaborate across teams: Work closely with marketers, designers, and subject-matter experts to align AI-assisted content with broader marketing goals and campaigns. - Learning Agility: Proven ability to rapidly learn new technologies, platforms, and complex processes. Keep up-to-date with advancements in AI creative tools, best practices, and licensing policies. - Basic experience in writing and/or directing film, TV, or digital video production, with a portfolio showcasing your skills. - Proficiency in using AI-based content creation tools. - Picture and/or sound editing experience a plus. - Understanding of content production principles and workflows. - Excellent attention to detail and creativity. - Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment. - Strong communication skills and openness to feedback. Qualifications - Proficiency in using AI-based content creation tools. - Basic experience in writing and/or directing film, TV, or digital video production, with a portfolio showcasing your skills. - Picture and/or sound editing experience a plus. - Understanding of content production principles and workflows. - Excellent attention to detail and creativity. - Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment. - Strong communication skills and openness to feedback. Requirements - Best in class salary: We hire only the best, and we pay accordingly. - Proximity Talks: Meet other designers, engineers, and product geeks — and learn from experts in the field. - Keep on learning with a world-class team: Work with the best in the field, challenge yourself constantly, and learn something new every day. Company Description Proximity is the trusted technology, design, and consulting partner for some of the biggest Sports, Media, and Entertainment companies in the world! We’re headquartered in San Francisco and have offices in Palo Alto, Dubai, Mumbai, and Bangalore. Since 2019, Proximity has created and grown high-impact, scalable products used by 370 million daily users, with a total net worth of $45.7 billion among our client companies. Today, we are a global team of coders, designers, product managers, geeks, and experts. We solve complex problems and build cutting-edge tech, at scale. Our team of Proxonauts is growing quickly, which means your impact on the company’s success will be huge. You’ll have the chance to work with experienced leaders who have built and led multiple tech, product, and design teams.

**ROLE FOCUS** Owns the end-to-end partnership function — from identifying the right donor and CSR organizations to building and closing those relationships. Works hand-in-hand with the Comm & Outreach Lead to get the right materials produced, then takes those materials and executes the outreach and relationship-building work. **KEY RESPONSIBILITIES** - Conduct and oversee market research to identify and prioritize donor and CSR organizations - Develop and lead the outreach strategy for all institutional partnership targets - Build, manage, and grow a pipeline of donor and CSR relationships - Represent Proximity Foundation in partner conversations, meetings, and negotiations - Brief the Comm & Outreach Lead on what partnership materials are needed and when - Manage and support the Market Research and Partnership Outreach sub-roles - Report partnership pipeline progress and outcomes to the Operations Manager

• Produce all partnership materials needed by the Partnerships Lead — pitch decks, one-pagers, brochures, and email templates • Manage social media presence across LinkedIn and Instagram • Oversee website content and all external communication updates • Manage and support the Content Creator and Volunteer Sourcing roles • Collaborate closely with the Partnerships Lead to brief, create, and refine materials for each donor or CSR target • Report content output and communication metrics to the Operations Manager

About Proximity Foundation Proximity Foundation runs structured coding education programs for young people aged 14-18 at Community Care Institutions (CCIs). Using a computer-based LMS curriculum covering HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and SQL, we pair students with volunteer mentors in cohort-based sessions designed to build real technical skills and lasting confidence. We are scaling from the first cohort to many cohorts within Mumbai and building the operational team that will carry this program forward. Every role in Proximity Foundation is a direct investment in the young people we serve. Role Type : Volunteer Time Commitment : 2-3 hrs/week Department : Partnerships & Growth Reports to : Partnerships & Engagement Lead ROLE FOCUS Execute outreach to identified donor and CSR organizations — drafting communications, following up on leads, and scheduling meetings so the Partnerships Lead can focus on relationship-building conversations. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES - Draft and send outreach emails to prospective donor and CSR organizations - Follow up on leads and manage correspondence with prospective partners - Schedule meetings and calls between partners and the Partnerships Lead - Maintain a live CRM tracker of all outreach activity and pipeline status - Assist in preparing pitch decks and partnership proposal materials - Coordinate with the Comms Lead to ensure brand-aligned messaging in outreach WHAT A TYPICAL WEEK LOOKS LIKE You'll be drafting and sending emails, tracking responses, following up, and booking calls. The Partnerships Lead sets the targets — you execute the first-touch outreach and keep the pipeline moving. WHY THIS ROLE MATTERS Outreach is where partnerships are won or lost — your persistence and professionalism in first conversations sets the tone for every relationship that follows. HOW TO APPLY To express interest in this role, please send a short note (no formal CV required) to: Bhoomi.k@proximity.foundation Tell us a little about yourself, why this role appeals to you, and any relevant experience. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds — enthusiasm and reliability matter most.