Topaz Labs is a bootstrapped AI software company that hit $48m in revenue in 2025. We have 1+ million paying customers (including teams at Google, Nvidia, and NASA) maximizing the visual quality of over 1 billion photos and videos. We are profitable and growing fast, with strong product-market fit and a vast market in front of us. About the role As a Senior Software Engineer on our Photo AI team you would be a key part of development on Photo AI - which helps users upscale, deblur, denoise, and enhance images with our AI engine. Your responsibilities would include feature development, code and system architecture, project planning, UI/UX, stability, optimization and more. Our product engineers work on everything from application architecture to frontend features. You would have a pivotal role on the team helping us maintain our high standard of craftsmanship and feature delivery, as well as help lead and develop other engineers on our team.
About you
5+ years professional development experience
Proficient in C++ & JavaScript
Experience working with modern, reactive UI frameworks
Knowledgeable with application architecture, networking, databases, performance and optimization
Testing experience: unit, integration, UI and/or acceptance tests
Good understanding of concurrency and multi-threading
High level of experience working on customer-facing products
Eye for design and a high level of craftsmanship
Strong sense of user experience
High aptitude for computer programming
Proven ability to learn and be effective in new technologies
You enjoy independence and a high level of responsibility
Preferred
Experience developing native applications for Windows / MacOS
Knowledge of image or video encoding/decoding and file formats
Experience deploying ML models in production environments
Some history working with applications involving digital media
Love
Photographers and videographers!
Deep knowledge of image file formats - JPEG, RAW, TIFF, PNG…
Familiarity with these SDKs - ONNX, CoreML, TensorRT, OpenVino
Advanced use of ffmpeg, OpenCV
Qt/QML development experience
Do you meet most but not 100% of the above? We’d still like to hear from you–we are passionate about developing a diverse team and culture, so please apply if you’re interested! This is a unique role for someone interested in making a deep impact at a high-growth tech software company. We offer strong base salary, plus significant ownership that scales with the company's growth. We also offer 100% covered medical/dental/vision for employees, 15 days annual PTO plus holidays, and 401k matching. This is a full-time onsite role in Dallas, TX, and we will ask you to relocate if you're not in the area