AI/ML Engineer
Own transcription, AI-assisted editing features and local model serving so Wizard's AI works in real time on the desktop.
Apply for this roleWhy this role matters
Our GTM plan hinges on a five-minute demo: raw footage in, Oz assembles a cut, a finished trailer comes out — and the trailer's quality is the test of whether any of this actually works. You're building the transcription and inference layer underneath that demo: the thing that has to be fast, accurate, and running locally on somebody's desktop, not a cloud API with a spinner.
The role
You'll own the transcription pipeline, AI-assisted editing features, and model integration (local and API) that make Wizard's AI features actually work in real time on desktop.
What you'll own
- Transcription (speech-to-text, waveform text display)
- AI-assisted editing features
- Model serving (local inference)
This is one of two AI/ML seats: the first covers multimodal, CLIP-based visual search; this one is focused on transcription/ASR and on-device inference.
What we're looking for
Must-have experience
- Video or audio ML models (not just LLMs)
- On-device inference optimization
- Whisper or similar ASR systems
- Real-time inference pipelines
Nice to have
- Diffusion models, video understanding
- Temporal consistency in video ML
- Experience with model quantization / distillation
About Wizard
Every so often, a new technology redefines how stories get told: the printing press, the telephone, radio, the film camera, the cutting room, television, the digital camera, non-linear editing. We think we're at the start of the next one, and we intend to build the company that defines it.
Wizard is a research, innovation, engineering, and manufacturing company built to be the Bell Labs of creative tooling — one clear mission, one system, built to last. Adobe took creative professionals from analog to digital: Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, and After Effects defined how a generation creates. But Adobe was built for that paradigm — pixels, timelines, layers, keyframes. It won't rebuild itself for the AI age; it will bolt AI onto software that's decades old. We're building what comes next, from scratch.
Our philosophy is creative as code: every decision editable, controllable, composable — never generative slop you regenerate and hope for the best. Controllability over convenience. Artist integrity over automation. Taste over throughput.
Wizard is the sister company to Story Co, a $6M-revenue production company that is Wizard's first customer and dogfooding partner — every Story production moves onto Wizard by V1. Separate legal entity, separate cap table, same mission.
Sound like you? Email us.
Send a note to info@wizard.inc with the subject line “Application: AI/ML Engineer”. Tell us what you've built and why this seat.