Principal Staff Engineer - Video AI

LinkedIn is seeking a Principal Staff Engineer to lead their Video AI initiatives in New York. This role sits at the heart of LinkedIn's ambitious growth strategy, working with a dynamic team of machine learning experts dedicated to revolutionizing video content interaction on the platform.

The Video AI team focuses on developing cutting-edge artificial intelligence technologies for video understanding, search, and personalization. Key areas include real-time video analytics, intelligent content recommendation systems, and state-of-the-art content understanding models.

As Principal Staff Engineer, you will:

• Lead technical and design discussions across the Video stack
• Drive architectural decisions and implementation
• Provide technical leadership to cross-functional teams
• Define quality and efficiency standards
• Partner with other AI team leads
• Mentor and attract world-class talent
• Build a culture of craftsmanship and innovation

The role offers both hybrid and remote work options, allowing flexibility to work from home or commute to the LinkedIn office. You'll help lead the buildout of AI talent presence in the New York office while working on problems like:

• Video Understanding: Building state-of-the-art content understanding models
• Video Feed Personalization: Optimizing content engagement and distribution
• Video Search: Solving multimodal search challenges
• Video Safety: Creating safe community standards

This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of video technology at LinkedIn while working with a global platform serving over 1 billion users. The role combines technical leadership, architectural innovation, and the chance to build world-class AI systems at scale.