Software Engineer - ML Performance / HPC

Topaz Labs is a leading full-stack AI company specializing in image and video enhancement. With over 1 million paying customers, including teams at Apple, Netflix, and NASA, we're at the forefront of improving visual quality for billions of photos and videos.

As a Software Engineer - ML Performance / HPC, you'll be a crucial link between our Deep Learning research team and our production products. Reporting to the Head of AI Engine, your primary focus will be on improving the performance of our internal AI Engine. Your responsibilities include:

1. Enhancing app performance and stability
2. Increasing the availability of new features
3. Simplifying and improving the API framework
4. Preparing new and updated models for production
5. Optimizing GPU/CPU performance
6. Collaborating with hardware partners (NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, Apple) to optimize inference on their hardware

We're looking for someone with:

• Hands-on experience in performance optimization (concurrency, multithreading, memory, speed, benchmarking, reliability)
• Experience in architecting APIs for internal development
• Expertise in implementing image processing or computational photography algorithms
• Expert knowledge of C/C++
• At least 1+ years of professional experience in a related field

Preferred qualifications include experience with video encoding/decoding, file formats, OpenCV, ffmpeg, GPU programming, raw image camera pipeline, image formats, and runtime SDKs like onnx, coreml, and tensorRT.

This role offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact at a high-growth tech company. We provide a competitive base salary, substantial equity that grows with the company, full medical/dental/vision coverage, 15 days of annual PTO, 5 personal days, holidays, and 401k matching.

Join us in Dallas, TX, and be part of a team that's revolutionizing image and video enhancement technology!