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Twelve Labs

Help developers build programs that can see, listen, and understand the world as we do.

Principal Software Engineer, Video Engineering

Location

United States

Posted

62 days ago

Salary

0

Seniority

Lead

Job Description

Principal Software Engineer, Video Engineering

Twelve Labs

• Own the video pipeline end-to-end: Architect and implement ingestion → decode → chunking → storage → retrieval → playback, across batch and streaming modes based on AI/ML workflows or media application workflows. • Deep codec & decode mastery: Drive decisions on decode strategies (hardware vs. software, GPU-accelerated pipelines), container format handling (fMP4, CMAF, MKV, TS), and codec support (H.264, H.265, VP9, AV1) with pragmatic cost/quality tradeoffs. • Semantic & heuristic chunking: Work with our ML Research Scientists to design and implement intelligent video segmentation that goes beyond fixed-interval splitting — scene boundary detection, shot change analysis, content-aware chunking that optimizes downstream AI model performance. • Streaming ingestion: Architect low-latency streaming pipelines (HLS, DASH, LL-HLS, WebRTC ingest) that process video in near-real-time, including streaming decode and incremental chunking. • Video storage architecture: Design storage tiers and retrieval patterns optimized for AI workloads — balancing hot/warm/cold access, frame-level random access, and cost at petabyte scale. • Playback & delivery: Ensure video can be served back to users with accurate temporal navigation, supporting time-coded references from AI analysis results. • FFmpeg & media toolchain expertise: Be the internal authority on FFmpeg, libav, and related tooling. Build and maintain custom processing pipelines, filters, and integrations. • Cost engineering: Quantify and optimize cost-per-hour-of-video-processed. Drive decode efficiency through hardware acceleration (NVDEC, VA-API), pipeline parallelism, and intelligent resource allocation. • Cross-team technical leadership: Partner with ML teams on how video is preprocessed for model consumption, with platform teams on infrastructure, and with product on customer-facing media capabilities. • Standards & best practices: Establish video engineering standards, author reference implementations, and mentor engineers across teams on media fundamentals.

Job Requirements

  • 12+ years in software engineering with 7+ years focused on video/media engineering in production systems processing video at scale.
  • Deep FFmpeg expertise: Not just CLI usage — understanding of libavcodec, libavformat, filter graphs, custom demuxers/decoders, and performance tuning.
  • Codec internals knowledge: H.264/H.265 bitstream structure, AV1 adoption tradeoffs, hardware decode paths, quality metrics (VMAF, SSIM, PSNR).
  • Streaming protocol fluency: HLS, DASH, LL-HLS, WebRTC. Experience with live/real-time ingest pipelines.
  • Systems engineering depth: Comfortable in C/C++, Rust, or Go for performance-critical media code; Python for pipeline orchestration. Can reason about memory layout, SIMD, GPU pipelines.
  • Storage & retrieval at scale: Experience designing video storage systems — object stores, frame-indexed access patterns, tiered storage strategies.
  • Content-aware processing: Experience with scene detection, shot boundary analysis, temporal segmentation, or perceptual quality optimization.
  • Production instincts: Incident response, observability for media pipelines, debugging decode failures at scale, handling format edge cases gracefully.
  • AI/ML integration experience (strongly preferred): Worked with teams consuming video frames for model training/inference. Understands how preprocessing decisions (resolution, frame rate, chunking strategy) impact model quality.

Benefits

  • Full health, dental, and vision benefits
  • Extremely flexible PTO and parental leave policy. Office closed the week of Christmas and New Years.
  • VISA support where applicable

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