Senior Staff Tech Lead, YouTube Agentic Video Editing and Generation
Mountain View, CA, USA · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 26, 2026
- Experience
- 8 years in software development; 2 years in applied ML and GenAI/agentic systems.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads the technical strategy and production deployment of YouTube’s video-generation models and agentic video-editing capabilities, partnering across YouTube and Google DeepMind.
What you'll do
- Own GenAI creation quality and product metrics, translating insights into engineering goals.
- Set product and cross-organizational technical strategy with PM, UX, and Google DeepMind partners.
- Lead technical execution and production deployment of video-generation and agentic-editing models; guide and mentor technical leaders and engineers.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in software development.
- 2 years of experience with applied ML and GenAI/agentic systems.
- Experience building, productionizing, and scaling ML systems in video generation, agentic systems, agent benchmarking, agent AutoRaters, or LLM/agent training pipelines.
Nice to have
- Experience architecting and evaluating video-editing agents and multimodal agent workflows.
- Ability to translate product strategy into technical roadmaps and metrics, navigate cross-organizational partnerships, mentor engineers, and understand model economics and user-engagement metrics.
Pay
$262000 - $364000 (USD) base salary
Tools
Video Generation models, agentic systems, agent benchmarking, agent AutoRaters, LLM/agent training pipelines
AI focus
Leads development, evaluation, training, and production deployment of video-generation models and agentic video-editing systems.
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