AI Engineer (Image/Video Generation)

About the role

This position focuses on developing and refining automated systems for creating advertising visuals. You will translate creative concepts and product requirements into high-quality images and videos, ensuring scalability and consistency.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Design and enhance automated pipelines for generating images and videos.
• Create rapid prototypes and tools to test new generation techniques.
• Improve workflows for image-to-video, text-to-video, and reference-based generation to achieve reliable outcomes.
• Work with various visual assets including user-generated content, product shots, avatars, and ad formats.
• Control and fine-tune the generation process for visual quality, style, product accuracy, and reference adherence.
• Identify and resolve issues related to image and video quality, such as artifacts, instability, and poor composition.
• Expand generative systems to support new products and creative styles.
• Evaluate and integrate new AI models and tools, distinguishing practical value from trends.
• Document system logic, prompts, parameters, and decisions to ensure reproducibility and facilitate collaboration.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience in generative AI, AI automation, creative technology, or media generation.
• Practical knowledge of image and video generation processes and multi-stage workflows.
• Ability to build and scale repeatable generation systems, not just individual outputs.
• Experience with generative models for text-to-image, image-to-image, image-to-video, video-to-video, or multimodal tasks.
• Proficient prompt engineering skills for image and video models.
• Capacity to independently assess the visual quality of generated content, considering composition, lighting, consistency, and product representation.
• Understanding of user-generated content, product-focused visuals, and performance-driven ad creative.
• Analytical skills to diagnose and improve generation systems by understanding cause and effect.
• Experience integrating AI solutions via APIs, scripting, or other technical methods.
• A blend of creative thinking and structured engineering approach.
• Ability to communicate technical information clearly to non-technical audiences.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with generative AI workflow tools like ComfyUI or n8n, LLM/agent-based workflows, or LoRA tuning.
• Hands-on experience with Python or AI/ML libraries.
• Experience with media processing tools such as ffmpeg, moviepy, or imageio.
• Experience building internal AI tools for creative or marketing teams.
• Background in performance marketing, ad tech, UGC, creative automation, or advertising products.

Skills & tools

• Generative AI
• Image Generation
• Video Generation
• Prompt Engineering
• Python (nice to have)
• AI/ML Libraries (nice to have)
• ffmpeg (nice to have)
• moviepy (nice to have)
• imageio (nice to have)
• ComfyUI (nice to have)
• n8n (nice to have)

Practical notes

• The company has been operating for 4 years, is profitable, and backed by international investors.
• Zeely has experienced 4x growth in the past year and serves over 1.5 million users.
• The team consists of over 200 specialists.
• The company is US-focused with a global user base.
• Work is remote-first, with access to offices in Warsaw and Kyiv.
• Support is provided for private entrepreneurship-related matters.
• Regular performance reviews are conducted.
• The recruitment process includes an intro call, a test task, a hiring team interview, a final interview, and a reference check.