# Software Engineer, AI Inference / HPC

**Company:** [Topaz Labs](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/topaz-labs)
**Location:** Dallas, TX
**Role:** ML Engineering
**Salary:** $110k – $150k/yr
**Experience:** 1+ years
**Skills:** C++, C, Performance Optimization, Multithreading, Concurrency, API Design, Image Processing, Opencv, Ffmpeg, Gpu Programming, Onnx, Coreml, TensorRT
**Posted:** 2026-03-05

> Develops and optimizes AI inference engine for image/video enhancement, focusing on performance, GPU/CPU optimization, model deployment, and hardware partnerships. Requires C/C++ expertise, 1+ years experience in performance optimization and image processing.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Improve performance, stability, availability of new features, and simplify/improve the API of the internal AI Engine framework.
- Act as technical bridge between Deep Learning research team and Production products.
- Prepare new & updated models for production.
- Optimize GPU/CPU for inference.
- Work with hardware partners (NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, Apple) to optimize inference on their hardware.

## Requirements
- Hands-on experience with performance optimization (concurrency, multithreading, memory, speed, benchmarking, reliability).
- Experience architecting APIs for internal development.
- Hands-on experience implementing image processing or computational photography algorithms.
- Expert knowledge of **C/C++**.
- At least **1+ years** of professional working experience in a related field.

## Preferred
- Experience with video encoding/decoding and file formats.
- Experience with **OpenCV**, **ffmpeg**, GPU programming.
- Experience with raw image camera pipeline and image formats.
- Experience with **ONNX**, **CoreML**, **TensorRT** runtime SDKs.
- Interest in photography or videography.

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