[Hiring] AI & Creative Technology Engineer @Yaqeen Institute

Role Description

Yaqeen Institute is seeking a technically skilled and creatively ambitious AI & Creative Technology Engineer to help advance how impactful media is imagined, produced, and delivered. This role will design and build tools that empower our producers, editors, animators, designers, and researchers to create exceptional content with greater efficiency, consistency, and creative possibility.

This role is ideal for a hands-on builder who can move from experimentation to implementation:

• Prototype AI-assisted visual storytelling.
• Develop custom applications and automations.
• Integrate new capabilities into everyday production.

The right candidate understands that technology should strengthen human creativity, scholarly accuracy, and artistic judgment — never replace them.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in creative technology, software development, technical artistry, media-pipeline engineering, or workflow automation; a strong portfolio may substitute for a conventional career path.
• Ability to build and maintain working tools using Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or comparable languages, including integrations with APIs, webhooks, and third-party services.
• Hands-on experience with generative AI tools and models for at least two of the following: video, images, audio, animation, language, or visual effects; an ability to evaluate limitations as well as strengths.
• Familiarity with professional media workflows and creative software such as Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, DaVinci Resolve, Photoshop, or comparable tools.
• Comfortable prototyping user-friendly internal applications, managing structured data, troubleshooting technical issues, and working with version control.
• Strong visual judgment and an appreciation for storytelling, composition, motion, consistency, and production quality.
• Ability to make prototypes dependable through testing, error handling, documentation, cost awareness, and attention to data security.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, especially when translating technical concepts for creative teammates in a remote environment.
• A strong passion for Yaqeen's mission and a commitment to editorial integrity, scholarly rigor, and thoughtful use of emerging technology.
• Experience with node-based AI workflows (e.g., ComfyUI), VFX/3D pipelines, model customization, media asset management, analytics, or cloud deployment is a strong plus.

Requirements

• Creative Technology Research & Development: Explore, test, and assess emerging AI tools and creative technologies across video, animation, image, audio, editing, and interactive storytelling.
• AI-Assisted Visual Production: Develop practical workflows for storyboarding, previsualization, historical environments, animation, motion graphics, visual effects, and other media assets in collaboration with the creative team.
• Custom Tool & Application Development: Build lightweight internal applications, scripts, plugins, dashboards, and API integrations that address production bottlenecks.
• Production Workflow Automation: Improve repetitive tasks such as footage logging, transcription, captioning, media organization, versioning, asset retrieval, localization preparation, and delivery while maintaining human review where needed.
• Pipeline Design & Integration: Connect AI services and custom tools with established creative software and production systems.
• Creative Collaboration & Prototyping: Partner directly with producers, editors, animators, and designers to translate a creative need into a technical solution.
• Quality, Accuracy & Responsible AI: Establish safeguards for factual reliability, sensitive religious and historical depictions, copyright, privacy, synthetic media, and content provenance.
• Documentation & Team Enablement: Create clear instructions, reusable templates, and workflow guides; train colleagues to use deployed tools confidently.
• Performance & Continuous Improvement: Evaluate solutions using measurable indicators such as production time saved, cost, output consistency, reliability, and creative quality.

Benefits

• Yaqeen Institute embraces a philosophy that values and promotes diversity.
• Our goal is to attract, develop, retain, and advance a talented and diverse workforce.
• All career opportunities at Yaqeen Institute are subject to a three-month probationary period.