Senior Manager, Application Engineering
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Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 260 - 280
Posted on:
9 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Who We Are:
At TwelveLabs we are pioneering the development of cutting-edge multimodal foundation models that have the ability to comprehend videos just like humans do. Our models have redefined the standards in video-language modeling empowering us with more intuitive and far-reaching capabilities and fundamentally transforming the way we interact with and analyze various forms of media.
With a remarkable $107 million in Seed and Series A funding our company is backed by top-tier venture capital firms such as NVIDIAs NVentures NEA Radical Ventures and Index Ventures and prominent AI visionaries and founders such as Fei-Fei Li Silvio Savarese Alexandr Wang and more. Headquartered in San Francisco with an influential APAC presence in Seoul our global footprint underscores our commitment to driving worldwide innovation.
We are a global company that values the uniqueness of each persons journey. It is the differences in our cultural educational and life experiences that allow us to constantly challenge the status quo. We are looking for individuals who are motivated by our mission and eager to make an impact as we push the bounds of technology to transform the world. Join us as we revolutionize video understanding and multimodal AI.
In this role you will
Own end-to-end delivery of end user facing applications from concept launch iteration with clear success metrics.
Drive an extreme iteration-speed culture: small batches weekly shipping tight feedback loops and rapid experimentation without sacrificing reliability.
Set and enforce a world-class product craft bar: interaction quality performance accessibility and consumer-grade polish across every release.
Build lead and grow a multi-disciplinary team (frontend backend product engineering): hiring coaching performance management and raising the bar.
Establish strong execution mechanisms: crisp requirements clear ownership predictable delivery and principled trade-offs across cross-functional stakeholders.
Be a player-coach: stay hands-on where it unlocks speed or quality (critical-path prototypes architectural spikes mentoring via code reviews and unblocking execution).
Ensure production readiness: testing strategy instrumentation incident hygiene and continuous improvement of quality latency and cost-to-serve for application workflows.
Requirements
10 years of professional software engineering experience including 5 years leading product/application engineering teams with Staff level ICs.
Track record of building high-quality consumer-grade video or multi-modal products with exceptional UI/UX craft including performance and usability excellence.
Demonstrated experience building a high velocity fast iteration culture.
Strong engineering fundamentals in testing strategy CI/CD and operational readiness for production.
Excellent people leadership: hiring performance management coaching and growing future leaders.
Comfortable operating in ambiguity and creating structure where none existswithout slowing down.
Background in fast-scaling startups or world class consumer facing product organizations.
Bonus
Experience building agentic applications on top of foundation models or data-heavy systems translating model capability into product value.
Even if there are a few checkboxes that arent ticked through your prior experience we still encourage you to apply! If you are a 0-1 achiever a ferocious learner and a kind and fun team player who motivates others you will find a home at TwelveLabs.
We are a global company that values the uniqueness of each persons journey. It is the differences in our cultural educational and life experiences that allow us to constantly challenge the status quo. We are looking for individuals who are motivated by our mission and eager to make an impact as we push the bounds of technology to transform the world. Join us as we revolutionize video understanding and multimodal AI.
Benefits and Perks
An open and inclusive culture and work environment.
Work closely with a collaborative mission-driven team on cutting-edge AI technology.
Full health dental and vision benefits.
Flexible PTO and parental leave policy. Office closed the week of Christmas and New Years.
VISA support (such as H1B and OPT transfer for US employees).
Required Experience:
Senior Manager
Key Skills
- Data Center Experience
- ArcGIS
- Cloud Infrastructure
- Construction Estimating
- Go
- Mathcad
- React
- Redux
- AWS
- Software Development
- Auto Estimating
- Distributed Systems
About Company
Recognized by leading researchers as the most performant AI for video understanding; surpassing benchmarks from cloud majors and open-source models.
