Teams at TwelveLabs

The role involves driving research on complex problems in video analysis, designing experiments, collaborating with engineers, and translating research into production systems.

As a Staff ML Research Scientist, you will lead high-impact research in video understanding, improving evaluation and experimental design, and translating advances into product applications. You will work with advanced technology in multimodal analysis systems and guide the team's research strategy.

Lead and grow the team building Twelve Labs' production-grade search stack: vector/ANN and lexical indexing, hybrid retrieval, reranking, temporal segment search, and an agentic search harness that orchestrates multi-turn, session-based queries across millions of hours of video. Own reliability, retrieval quality metrics, cross-functional alignment, hiring, and technical standards.