About TwelveLabs

Video is 90% of the world's data. Most of it is invisible to machines. TwelveLabs builds the intelligence layer to change that. Our multimodal AI models understand video the way humans do — across sight, sound, and motion — and power production-scale AI workloads across media, entertainment, sports, security, and government. We have raised more than $210 million from NEA, Radical Ventures, Amazon, NVIDIA, Snowflake, Databricks, Index Ventures, NAVER Ventures, Korea Investment Partners, Quadrille Capital, Red Bull Ventures, and AI pioneers including Fei-Fei Li, Silvio Savarese, and Alexandr Wang. We are a global company, headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Seoul, New York, and London, and employees around the world. We believe the differences in our cultural, educational, and life experiences make our products stronger. Building technology that understands the world in all its complexity requires people who see it from every angle. We are looking for individuals who are driven by hard problems and want their work to matter. Come build it with us!

About Jockey

Jockey is TwelveLabs' unified agentic system that reasons across your videos and images. It combines a reasoning model with a memory layer that builds a knowledge store from your corpus. No context window holds a video archive. We work at a million hours of video. A single model forward pass can tell you about one file; it can't reason across a corpus, and no context window closes that gap. Jockey decomposes a query, retrieves, segments, and reasons across thousands of videos and images. Point it at an archive, ask for a highlight reel or the best viral moments, and it returns timestamped cuts you can use. Corpus-level understanding you can act on is the whole product. Built for agents, not just people. As AI agents increasingly become the primary consumers of video, we're building production-grade infrastructure that scales to millions of hours while delivering reliable, high-quality results for both human users and autonomous agents. We build on models we own. Marengo, our embedding model, resolves a query like "the moment we almost missed the flight" into real retrieval. Pegasus, our video-language model, returns structured, timestamped moments on a schema you define. We ship and improve both continuously, so Jockey's quality compounds with every release — no re-integration for customers. Few teams get to build an agent on a stack they control end to end.

Deep expertise, one system, open culture.

Foundation models, knowledge construction, search, and the agent harness all live in one org. Each team owns its domain and is expected to have deep expertise in it — but like a Formula 1 team, we optimize for the global system, not local parts. A model gain that doesn't expand what the agent can do isn't a gain. We trace a single algorithm change through to end-system behavior, and share work in progress weekly, not just finished results. Anyone can pull the context they need from any team.

About the team

The Cognition Models team owns the models that turn video into structured understanding and reasoning: Pegasus, our video-language model, and Jockey Core, the reasoning LLM behind Jockey. In the model stack we sit between Perception Models (embeddings and retrieval) and the agent system — taking what's retrieved and producing structured understanding and the reasoning to act on it. We focus on multimodal systems with high instruction-following capability and complex, hierarchically structured outputs. Our work spans training infrastructure from pre-training to RL, temporal segmentation and structured metadata extraction, large-scale inference and serving systems, data-curation and evaluation pipelines, and building Jockey Core. We ship products with real-world value rather than doing research in isolation, working as a goal-oriented, cross-functional team of ML researchers and engineers — using the most advanced compute in the world, including NVIDIA B300s, to accelerate the research-to-production cycle.

About Pegasus

Pegasus is TwelveLabs' video-language model — it turns video into useful analysis by reasoning over visuals, speech, audio, and on-screen text. A key capability is Segment, our time-based metadata feature: instead of a broad question about a video, customers define the exact segment types they care about and the metadata fields they want back, and Pegasus finds the relevant start and end times and returns structured metadata for each segment — titles, summaries, topics, people, visual subjects, confidence, or domain-specific labels. This turns video into time-based, structured data that flows directly into search, archive, editing, compliance, or content-management workflows.

In this role, you will

Drive technical direction for training infrastructure and training operations within Pegasus while remaining deeply hands-on in critical system design and implementation.
Own the design and evolution of scalable end-to-end training pipelines, with a focus on reliability, reproducibility, efficiency, and fast iteration in large-scale distributed environments.
Lead technical decision-making across data curation workflows, training systems, evaluation pipelines, and ML infrastructure for multimodal model development.
Improve and automate the end-to-end training lifecycle so research ideas can be translated into robust systems and integrated into production model development quickly and reliably.
Mentor engineers and raise the team's execution bar through strong technical judgment, design reviews, and hands-on collaboration.
Explore and adopt AI-assisted development tools such as Claude, Gemini, and GPT to improve productivity across coding, experimentation, debugging, and documentation.

You may be a good fit if you have

Significant experience building and productionizing large-scale ML systems as a hands-on individual contributor.
Experience driving technical direction across complex ML infrastructure or training systems projects and making architectural decisions in demanding engineering environments.
Strong experience with large-scale distributed training systems, training infrastructure, or large-scale data processing pipelines.
Strong foundations in machine learning and experience with multimodal systems such as vision, language, or video-based models.
Strong technical judgment across system design, performance, reliability, reproducibility, and long-term maintainability.
A track record of mentoring engineers and creating technical leverage beyond your own individual contributions.

Preferred qualifications

Experience building infrastructure for large-scale data curation, evaluation, or training workflows.
Experience optimizing distributed training systems in high-performance GPU environments.
Experience working with cutting-edge accelerator hardware and large-scale multimodal model training.
Master's or PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Science, or a related technical field.

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