Senior Software Engineer, Applied AI Research

6 hours ago

ca ca Wintermeyer Ventures Full-time

Senior Software Engineer, Applied AI Research

Join an applied research team exploring practical ways to advance agentic AI for marketing workflows, with a focus on image and video generation. This senior role emphasizes experimentation, rapid prototyping, and product impact over theoretical research.

What You'll Do

  • Build proofs of concept that explore AI applications in data and marketing workflows.
  • Design evaluation and improvement systems that help AI capabilities advance autonomously.
  • Experiment with techniques for creating realistic AI-generated video, including human imagery.
  • Develop approaches for generating brand assets that match a company's visual identity.
  • Turn promising experiments into practical product applications, working hands-on across engineering and product development.

What We're Looking For

  • Three to 15 years of experience in software engineering, machine learning, research engineering, or applied AI.
  • Strong backend engineering skills, including experience building and scaling infrastructure or complex AI products; early-stage product development experience is valuable.
  • Recent hands-on software engineering or product experience, with a track record of growing toward senior or technical leadership responsibilities.
  • Strong quantitative and probabilistic reasoning, creative experimentation, and product intuition.
  • Depth in machine learning and deep learning fundamentals; experience with Python, LLMs, image or video generation, evaluation systems, or model fine-tuning is relevant.
  • Experience applying generative AI to customer-facing products or workflows is useful. Prior LLM experience is not required.

Annual base salary is $180,000 to $400,000 USD, with meaningful equity compensation. Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

Remote, with the primary location in Canada.