Senior Software Engineer, Applied AI Research at Wintermeyer Ventures — NeverHard

About the Role Join an applied research team exploring practical ways to advance agentic AI for marketing workflows, with a focus on image and video generation. This senior role emphasizes experimentation, rapid prototyping, and product impact over theoretical research. What You'll Do Build proofs of concept that explore AI applications in data and marketing workflows. Design evaluation and improvement systems that help AI capabilities advance autonomously. Experiment with techniques for creating realistic AI-generated video, including human imagery. Develop approaches for generating brand assets that match a company's visual identity. Turn promising experiments into practical product applications, working hands-on across engineering and product development. What We're Looking For Three to 15 years of experience in software engineering, machine learning, research engineering, or applied AI. Strong backend engineering skills, including experience building and scaling infrastructure or complex AI products; early-stage product development experience is valuable. Recent hands-on software engineering or product experience, with a track record of growing toward senior or technical leadership responsibilities. Strong quantitative and probabilistic reasoning, creative experimentation, and product intuition. Depth in machine learning and deep learning fundamentals; experience with Python, LLMs, image or video generation, evaluation systems, or model fine-tuning is relevant. Experience applying generative AI to customer-facing products or workflows is useful. Prior LLM experience is not required. Compensation & Benefits Annual base salary is $180,000 to $400,000 USD, with meaningful equity compensation. Visa sponsorship is available. Location Remote, with the primary location in Canada.