# Applied Research Engineer

**Company:** [Sieve](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/sieve)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** ML Engineering
**Salary:** $150k – $350k/yr
**Experience:** 2+ years
**Skills:** PyTorch, Python, Computer Vision, Audio Processing, Inference Optimization, Pipelining, Parallelism, Fine-Tuning, Machine Learning Frameworks
**Posted:** 2025-04-26

> Builds high-performance pipelines and building blocks for video understanding at scale using computer vision, audio processing, and ML optimization techniques. Requires 2+ years in CV/audio, strong Python/PyTorch skills, and passion for video tech.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build high performance building blocks and large scale pipelines to understand video with high precision at internet scale.
- Work on ambiguous research problems in computer vision, audio processing, and text processing domains.
- Squeeze performance from models + APIs through pre/post-processing, parallelism, pipelining, inference optimization, and fine-tuning.

## Requirements
- **2+ years** of experience in computer vision or audio processing
- Strong Python developer with hands-on experience in **PyTorch** or similar ML frameworks
- Excellent communication skills, especially with customers and external teams
- Writes clean, maintainable code—bonus for active GitHub or portfolio projects
- Deep passion for the video domain and media technologies
- Motivated by building end-to-end products—not just training models
- Able to break problems down from customer level impact to necessary building blocks

## Nice-to-Haves
- Active contributor to open source projects
- Experience as an early hire at a startup

## Benefits
- 401k + Full Health Insurance
- Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner covered and your choice of snacks
- Ubers covered home

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