# Lead AI Researcher at OpusClip

- Company: OpusClip
- What the company does: OpusClip turns long videos into high-quality viral clips, and publishes them to all social platforms in one click. We help 20M+ creators create and grow faster. Backed by SoftBank VF and AI Grant.
- Company website: https://www.opus.pro/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Mountain View
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $280K to $380K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-02
- Apply by: 2026-10-17
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/opusclip/5e6f0649-5b3c-41e9-86f1-aa28928e56f3
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/opusclip-lead-ai-researcher/

## About the role

🎨 OpusClip is the world's No.1 AI video agent, built for authenticity on social media. We envision a world where everyone can authentically share their story through video, with no expertise needed. Within just 18 months of our launch, over 10 million creators and businesses have used OpusClip to enhance their social presence.

## What they're looking for

- Proven experience shipping AI/ML models from prototype to production at scale
- Deep expertise in model post-training, including fine-tuning, preference optimization, evaluation, and learning from user feedback. Experience building data flywheels that turn user behavior and feedback into training data and continuous model improvements
- Strong inference optimization experience for self-hosted models, including latency, throughput, GPU utilization, quantization, and serving cost
- Strong model evaluation skills, including offline benchmarks, human evaluation, online experiments, and product-quality metrics
- Practical experience applying LLMs or multimodal models to video applications, such as highlight detection, content curation, ranking, personalization, and editing decisions
- Familiarity with video-related models and systems, including but not limited to vision-language models, ASR/transcription, video understanding, and enhancement/upscaling, etc

Tags: Engineering