We’re supporting a venture-backed AI company building cutting-edge surgical AI systems focused on video understanding. Their initial product transforms surgical videos into structured clinical reports - a focused entry point into a much bigger vision: developing a large-scale surgical foundation model, ultimately enabling advanced perception systems and autonomous surgical robotics.
This is a deep-tech team building models from first principles - not treating AI as a black box. They combine ambitious research goals with real-world deployment in high-stakes medical environments.
The Role
Our client is hiring a Computer Vision Engineer who operates at the intersection of research and production.
This is not a pure research role - and not just product engineering. They’re looking for someone who can:
- Deliver research-grade innovation
- Write clean, scalable, production-ready code
- Move fluidly between experimentation and deployment
This role is central to their long-term roadmap toward advanced autonomy.
What You’ll Work On
- Designing and training advanced video understanding models
- Extending image-based CV architectures into temporal domains
- Working with multimodal and potentially 3D data (point clouds beneficial)
- Building scalable training pipelines, including distributed training
- Bridging research prototypes into production systems
- Contributing to publications at leading AI conferences
- Collaborating closely with a highly technical founding team
- Technical Background
- Strong foundation in Computer Vision on images
- Experience in video understanding
- Exposure to 3D data / point clouds (beneficial)
- Experience with model training pipelines and optimization
- Ability to implement research papers quickly and robustly
- Strong software engineering fundamentals
- Research Mindset
- Track record (or clear potential) for top conference-level work
- Ability to derive models from first principles
- Deep understanding of modern CV architectures
- Problem-Solving
- Comfortable working in ambiguous environments
- Strong analytical and structured thinking skills
- Able to tackle unfamiliar domains effectively
- Collaboration & Product Awareness
- Understands real-world constraints and client needs
- Comfortable working closely with cross-functional teams
- Thrives in a collaborative environment (not a solo contributor role_
- Meaningful Impact - Building AI systems that support safer surgical procedures and improve access to care.
- Big Technical Vision - Report generation is the entry point. The broader roadmap includes foundational models and advanced autonomy systems.
- Genuine Deep Tech - This team is building core models and infrastructure from the ground up.
- Publication & Credibility - Publishing at leading conferences is part of the company’s DNA.
- Strong Talent Density - You’ll work alongside highly technical peers in an ambitious, research-driven environment.