Principal AI Engineer at VideoAmp

<div class="va-jd" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; max-width: 780px; color: #000000; line-height: 1.6;"> <div style="padding: 28px 0 8px 0;"> <h1 style="font-size: 26px !important; font-weight: 800; color: #3b4ea6; margin: 0 0 10px 0; line-height: 1.2;">Principal AI Engineer</h1> <p style="margin: 0; font-size: 14px !important; color: #000000;">📍 Los Angeles, CA &nbsp;·&nbsp; Boulder, CO &nbsp;·&nbsp; New York, NY &nbsp;·&nbsp; St. Petersburg, FL &nbsp;&nbsp;<span style="color: #d1d5db;">|</span>&nbsp;&nbsp; <strong style="color: #dc1464;">Hybrid</strong> &nbsp;&nbsp;<span style="color: #d1d5db;">|</span>&nbsp;&nbsp; $175,000 – $200,000 + Equity + Benefits</p> </div> <div style="height: 2px; background-color: #3b4ea6; margin: 16px 0 24px 0;">&nbsp;</div> <h2 style="font-size: 18px !important; font-weight: 800; color: #3b4ea6; letter-spacing: 2px; margin: 0 0 8px 0;">About VideoAmp</h2> <div style="height: 1px; background-color: #e5e7eb; margin: 0 0 14px 0;">&nbsp;</div> <p style="font-size: 14px !important; margin: 0 0 12px 0; color: #000000;">VideoAmp is the tech-first measurement company transforming how advertising is valued, bought, and sold. Powered by currency-grade big data and a best-in-class technology stack, our platform gives advertisers, publishers, and agencies the ability to plan, optimize, and measure media investments across every screen — from linear TV and OTT to CTV and digital video.</p> <p style="font-size: 14px !important; margin: 0 0 12px 0; color: #000000;">VideoAmp is accelerating investment in agentic AI and intelligent optimization technologies — helping clients drive measurable, real-world outcomes in an increasingly complex media landscape. With 880% year-over-year measurement growth, 98% coverage of the TV publisher ecosystem, and partnerships with 11 agency groups and 1,000+ advertisers, we're not just keeping pace with the industry — <strong>we're defining what comes next.</strong></p> <p style="font-size: 14px !important; margin: 0 0 24px 0; color: #000000;">We believe great work requires great people — people who say "I'll find a way" instead of "it can't be done."</p> <div style="height: 2px; background-color: #3b4ea6; margin: 0 0 24px 0;">&nbsp;</div> <h2 style="font-size: 18px !important; font-weight: 800; color: #3b4ea6; letter-spacing: 2px; margin: 0 0 8px 0;">The Role</h2> <div style="height: 1px; background-color: #e5e7eb; margin: 0 0 14px 0;">&nbsp;</div> <p style="font-size: 14px !important; margin: 0 0 12px 0; color: #000000;">The <strong>Principal AI Engineer</strong> will serve as a technical cornerstone of VideoAmp's AI Infra team, driving the design and execution of agentic workflow systems that bridge the gap between VideoAmp's platform APIs and AI-powered experiences. This is a high-impact, senior individual contributor role at the intersection of LLM infrastructure, API design, and developer enablement.</p> <p style="font-size: 14px !important; margin: 0 0 24px 0; color: #000000;">While acting as a collaborative guide and mentor for cross-functional teams adopting AI-native development patterns, you will architect and own critical systems — including MCP servers, scenario evaluation frameworks, and agentic workflow tooling. You thrive in a fast-moving, evaluation-driven environment and are equally comfortable whiteboarding a distributed system design, leading a working group, and shipping production-quality code.</p> <div style="height: 2px; background-color: #3b4ea6; margin: 0 0 24px 0;">&nbsp;</div> <h2 style="font-size: 18px !important; font-weight: 800; color: #3b4ea6; letter-spacing: 2px; margin: 0 0 8px 0;">What You'll Do</h2> <div style="height: 1px; background-color: #e5e7eb; margin: 0 0 14px 0;">&nbsp;</div> <ul style="margin: 0 0 24px 0; padding-left: 20px; font-size: 14px !important; color: #000000;"> <li style="margin-bottom: 8px;">Design, build, and operate VideoAmp's AI infrastructure and its universal tool layers supporting both customer and internal workflows.</li> <li style="margin-bottom: 8px;">Lead the development of scenario evaluation frameworks, including golden scenario design, automated CI/CD evaluation pipelines, and regression detection to ensure agentic workflow quality.</li> <li style="margin-bottom: 8px;">Architect and implement efficient tool discovery systems (deferred loading, search-tools, tool categorization, semantic filtering) enabling scalable, multi-step agentic workflows.</li> <li style="margin-bottom: 8px;">Partner with internal engineering teams to negotiate and promote API-first designs that serve both programmatic and agentic consumers.</li> <li style="margin-bottom: 8px;">Own full SDLC of new Agent APIs from design through production, testing, releases, and enhancement.</li> <li style="margin-bottom: 8px;">Facilitate weekly AI office hours, serving as the internal expert on LLM tooling, agentic patterns, and tool configuration.</li> <li style="margin-bottom: 8px;">Contribute to multi-provider LLM abstraction layers ensuring flexibility of LLM provider (Anthropic, Snowflake, Databricks, etc.).</li> <li style="margin-bottom: 8px;">Author, review, and drive clear, technical requirements documentation for new solutions.</li> </ul> <div style="height: 2px; background-color: #3b4ea6; margin: 0 0 24px 0;">&nbsp;</div> <h2 style="font-size: 18px !important; font-weight: 800; color: #3b4ea6; letter-spacing: 2px; margin: 0 0 8px 0;">What You'll Bring</h2> <div style="height: 1px; background-color: #e5e7eb; margin: 0 0 14px 0;">&nbsp;</div> <ul style="margin: 0 0 16px 0; padding-left: 20px; font-size: 14px !important; color: #000000;"> <li style="margin-bottom: 8px;">Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field preferred; equivalent practical experience considered.</li> <li style="margin-bottom: 8px;">8+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years in AI/ML infrastructure, LLM platform engineering, or agentic systems.</li> <li style="margin-bottom: 8px;">Deep hands-on experience with LLM APIs (Anthropic, OpenAI, or equivalent) and familiarity with prompt engineering, tool use / function calling, and multi-step agent orchestration.</li> <li style="margin-bottom: 8px;">Strong background in resource-based API design, and experience building or consuming developer-facing platform APIs at scale.</li> <li style="margin-bottom: 8px;">Experience with MCP or equivalent tool-layer abstractions for exposing platform capabilities to AI agents.</li> <li style="margin-bottom: 8px;">Proficiency in <strong>Golang, Python, and SQL</strong>; comfort working across backend services, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud infrastructure.</li> <li style="margin-bottom: 8px;">Experience designing and operating evaluation frameworks or automated testing pipelines for non-deterministic systems (LLMs, probabilistic models).</li> <li style="margin-bottom: 8px;">Strong cross-functional collaboration skills with a track record of working across engineering, product, and operations teams to drive alignment on shared infrastructure.</li> <li style="margin-bottom: 8px;">Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to produce design documents, postmortems, and system diagrams that create unanimous understanding.</li> </ul> <p style="font-size: 14px !important; font-weight: bold; color: #dc1464; margin: 0 0 6px 0;">✨ Bonus Points</p> <ul style="margin: 0 0 24px 0; padding-left: 20px; font-size: 14px !important; color: #000000;"> <li>Familiarity with the AdTech / media measurement landscape (linear TV, OTT, CTV, digital video).</li> </ul> <div style="height: 2px; background-color: #3b4ea6; margin: 0 0 24px 0;">&nbsp;</div> <h2 style="font-size: 18px !important; font-weight: 800; color: #3b4ea6; letter-spacing: 2px; margin: 0 0 8px 0;">Compensation &amp; Benefits</h2> <div style="height: 1px; background-color: #e5e7eb; margin: 0 0 14px 0;">&nbsp;</div> <div style="margin-bottom: 24px;"> <div style="padding: 12px 0 4px 0;"><strong style="font-size: 16px !important; color: #3b4ea6;">Base Salary</strong></div> <div style="font-size: 14px !important; color: #000000; padding: 0 0 12px 0;">$175,000 – $200,000 (commensurate with experience)</div> <div style="height: 1px; background-color: #e5e7eb;">&nbsp;</div> <div style="padding: 12px 0 4px 0;"><strong style="font-size: 16px !important; color: #3b4ea6;">Equity</strong></div> <div style="font-size: 14px !important; color: #000000; padding: 0 0 12px 0;">Equity participation included</div> <div style="height: 1px; background-color: #e5e7eb;">&nbsp;</div> <div style="padding: 12px 0 4px 0;"><strong style="font-size: 16px !important; color: #3b4ea6;">Time Off</strong></div> <div style="font-size: 14px !important; color: #000000; padding: 0 0 12px 0;">Discretionary &amp; flexible PTO + Spring, Summer &amp; Winter company breaks</div> <div style="height: 1px; background-color: #e5e7eb;">&nbsp;</div> <div style="padding: 12px 0 4px 0;"><strong style="font-size: 16px !important; color: #3b4ea6;">Health</strong></div> <div style="font-size: 14px !important; color: #000000; padding: 0 0 12px 0;">Inclusive and comprehensive medical, dental &amp; vision</div> <div style="height: 1px; background-color: #e5e7eb;">&nbsp;</div> <div style="padding: 12px 0 4px 0;"><strong style="font-size: 16px !important; color: #3b4ea6;">Financial</strong></div> <div style="font-size: 14px !important; color: #000000; padding: 0 0 12px 0;">401(k) with matching · HSA &amp; FSA</div> <div style="height: 1px; background-color: #e5e7eb;">&nbsp;</div> <div style="padding: 12px 0 4px 0;"><strong style="font-size: 16px !important; color: #3b4ea6;">Family</strong></div> <div style="font-size: 14px !important; color: #000000; padding: 0 0 12px 0;">Paid Maternity &amp; Parental Leave for all family additions</div> <div style="height: 1px; background-color: #e5e7eb;">&nbsp;</div> <div style="padding: 12px 0 4px 0;"><strong style="font-size: 16px !important; color: #3b4ea6;">Perks</strong></div> <div style="font-size: 14px !important; color: #000000; padding: 0 0 12px 0;">Cell phone &amp; wifi reimbursement · Commuter benefits</div> </div> <div style="height: 2px; background-color: #3b4ea6; margin: 0 0 24px 0;">&nbsp;</div> <h2 style="font-size: 18px !important; font-weight: 800; color: #3b4ea6; letter-spacing: 2px; margin: 0 0 8px 0;">Our Values</h2> <div style="height: 1px; background-color: #e5e7eb; margin: 0 0 16px 0;">&nbsp;</div> <div style="margin-bottom: 20px;"> <p style="font-size: 14px !important; font-weight: bold; color: #dc1464; margin: 0 0 2px 0;"><span style="font-size: 14px !important; font-weight: bold; color: #dc1464;">01</span> &nbsp;<span style="font-size: 14px !important; font-weight: bold; color: #3b4ea6;">One VideoAmp</span></p> <p style="font-size: 14px !important; font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-style: italic; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding-left: 24px;">We win together</p> <p style="font-size: 14px !important; color: #000000; margin: 0; padding-left: 24px;">We operate as one team, prioritizing shared success over individual wins. We collaborate across functions, support one another, and assume positive intent — because when one of us succeeds, we all do.</p> </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 20px;"> <p style="font-size: 14px !important; font-weight: bold; color: #dc1464; margin: 0 0 2px 0;"><span style="font-size: 14px !important; font-weight: bold; color: #dc1464;">02</span> &nbsp;<span style="font-size: 14px !important; font-weight: bold; color: #3b4ea6;">Own the Outcome</span></p> <p style="font-size: 14px !important; font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-style: italic; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding-left: 24px;">Accountability + Empowerment</p> <p style="font-size: 14px !important; color: #000000; margin: 0; padding-left: 24px;">We take full responsibility for results, not just tasks. We act with urgency, make decisions with confidence, and own both successes and setbacks while continuously improving.</p> </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 24px;"> <p style="font-size: 14px !important; font-weight: bold; color: #dc1464; margin: 0 0 2px 0;"><span style="font-size: 14px !important; font-weight: bold; color: #dc1464;">03</span> &nbsp;<span style="font-size: 14px !important; font-weight: bold; color: #3b4ea6;">Raise the Bar</span></p> <p style="font-size: 14px !important; font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-style: italic; margin: 0 0 6px 0; padding-left: 24px;">Quality · Trust · Excellence</p> <p style="font-size: 14px !important; color: #000000; margin: 0; padding-left: 24px;">We hold ourselves and each other to a high standard. We deliver thoughtful, high-quality work, build trust through consistency and integrity, and continuously push for better outcomes.</p> </div> <div style="height: 3px; background-color: #dc1464; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">&nbsp;</div> <div style="text-align: center; padding: 8px 0 4px 0;"> <p style="font-size: 16px !important; font-weight: 800; color: #3b4ea6; margin: 0 0 8px 0;">Ready to build what's next in AI-powered media measurement?</p> <p style="font-size: 14px !important; color: #000000; margin: 0 0 8px 0;">VideoAmp is an equal opportunity employer committed to building an inclusive, diverse team. We celebrate different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds — because that's how we build something great.</p> <p style="font-size: 14px !important; color: #000000; font-style: italic; margin: 0;">videoamp.com &nbsp;·&nbsp; Los Angeles &amp; New York<br>#LI-Hybrid</p> </div> </div>