AI Research Engineer

Surat City, GJ, India • Posted July 02, 2026

Job Type: Full-time
Location: Surat City, GJ
Posted: July 02, 2026
Category: other-general
Application Deadline: August 11, 2026

Role Description

Position: AI Research Engineer Small Language Models & On-Device AI Work Type: Full Time/Hybrid (India) Company Location: Surat, Gujarat At VideoSDK, were building the real-time intelligence layer for the next generation of applications fast, private, multimodal, and on-device. We're hiring an AI Research Engineer to lead infrastructure development for small language models (SLMs) and speech systems, optimized for on-device multimodal AI. Your work will directly power products like real-time voice agents, live translation, intelligent video systems, and low-latency assistants all running beyond the cloud. What You'll Work On Build scalable infrastructure to train, evaluate, and deploy small language models efficiently. Design and implement RL-based training loops (e.g., PPO, DPO, RLAIF) for tuning small models in constrained environments. Work with speech systems, including speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and voice activity detection. Optimize models for on-device inference targeti...

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