Principal AI Engineer, Media Pipelines

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Principal AI Engineer, Media Pipelines based in the United States. Take a leading technical role in building AI-powered media transformation systems that help creators and media brands extend the reach of their content across platforms and languages. As a Principal Engineer, you will define the architecture and technical roadmap for pipelines that transform large media catalogs into short-form videos, multilingual dubs, and formats optimized for AI-powered discovery. You will combine hands-on engineering with strategic decision-making across multimodal AI, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure. A key focus will be improving processing speed, controlling inference costs, and ensuring consistently high-quality outputs at scale. Working closely with AI specialists and cross-functional leaders, you will establish engineering standards and guide critical features from experimentation to production. This is an opportunity to shape a rapidly evolving product while solving complex challenges at the intersection of AI, media, and enterprise reliability.