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Engineer

01 - The company

Highlight is an AI-first mobile gaming studio, building the next generation of mobile games. Games that couldn't be built before AI, where creation is the gameplay itself.

We're looking for an AI Engineer to build the creative AI systems at the heart of the game: image and video generation pipelines that run in real time, embedded directly inside the game loop. You'll own the full pipeline end to end, from model selection and fine-tuning to production deployment, with zero tolerance for latency and zero room for manual fixes.

02 - The role

Research into
production

As AI Engineer you'll design, build, and operate the creative AI infrastructure that makes the game work. You'll work directly with the founders to turn cutting-edge generative models into reliable, real-time, production-grade systems, at the speed gameplay demands.

This is not research and it's not glue code. It's taking the newest models available and making them fast enough, stable enough, and good enough to sit inside a game loop that a player is actively waiting on. It takes deep technical expertise in image and video generation combined with a builder's mindset: someone who ships, iterates fast, and cares that the output is genuinely great, not just technically correct.

03 - Responsibilities

What you'll own

  • Build an end-to-end automated creative pipeline, from player intent to image and video output, with no manual intervention and no post-processing.
  • Achieve near-zero latency generation to meet the demands of real-time, interactive gameplay.
  • Fine-tune and optimize foundation models for quality, speed, and cost at consumer scale.
  • Turn state-of-the-art research into production systems that are stable, scalable, and fast.
  • Own the infrastructure behind it: API design, deployment, monitoring, and cost.
  • Keep pace with a field that moves weekly. Evaluate what's new, and know when it's worth switching.
04 - Ideal profile

Who you are

  • Deep hands-on experience with image and/or video generation models (diffusion models, GANs, video generation).
  • Strong Python engineering. You write clean, production-ready code, not just notebooks.
  • Experience taking AI models from research or prototype into live production systems.
  • Comfortable operating end to end: model work, API design, infrastructure, and deployment.
  • Obsessive about latency, reliability, and output quality.
  • A builder who takes ownership and doesn't wait to be told what to do.
05 - Nice to have

Bonus points

  • Experience with real-time or streaming inference.
  • Background in computer vision or image processing pipelines.
  • Familiarity with mobile constraints (memory, bandwidth, performance).
  • Experience with GCP and ML infrastructure at scale.
★  One more thing
You'll be building the engine behind a new kind of creative game. A genuine excitement for what AI can do inside an interactive experience matters here, a lot.
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AI Engineer · Tel Aviv