# Research Engineer at Cloudglue

- Company: Cloudglue (YC S24)
- What the company does: The video context layer for AI. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://cloudglue.dev
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (Seattle, WA, US; Los Angeles, CA, US)
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $120K to $250K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-02-11
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/cloudglue/jobs/7Rf6hB8-research-engineer
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/cloudglue-research-engineer/

## About the role

We’re looking for a research engineer to work on the core multimodal retrieval and video reasoning systems that power Cloudglue. This is a 50/50 research and engineering role - you’ll design novel approaches to hard retrieval and understanding problems, and you’ll ship them into production where real customers depend on them. Multimodal retrieval: Design and improve retrieval systems that search across video, audio, and text - including embedding models, re-ranking, and hierarchical search strategies.

## What they're looking for

- MS or PhD in computer science, machine learning, or a related field
- Research experience in one or more of: multimodal learning, information retrieval, computer vision, NLP, or video understanding
- Strong implementation skills in Python and PyTorch (or equivalent)
- Ability to independently drive research from idea to experiment to working system

Tags: Engineering