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Sieve

Cloud platform for AI video/audio apps

Product Engineer - Product

Full-Time
$150k - $300k/yr
Mid
San Francisco, CA, USA
In PersonIn-person at the San Francisco headquarters.
Software EngineeringFull-Stack Engineering

About the job

Requirements
  • Strong full-stack engineering ability and the ability to take projects from idea to production.
  • Strong TypeScript and modern frontend experience; React and Next.js are preferred.
  • Mobile experience with React Native, especially for media capture or upload flows.
  • Backend experience in Python or Go, with solid API and database fundamentals.
  • Comfort working across product and systems concerns, including reliability, performance, and observability.
  • Willingness to work late nights and weekends when needed.
  • Ability to work in person at the San Francisco headquarters.
Responsibilities
  • Build and scale a production product used by contributors, partners, and internal teams.
  • Ship full-stack features across frontend, backend APIs, and underlying systems.
  • Ship mobile features that enable easy video capture and submission.
  • Improve reliability, performance, and developer velocity across the platform.
  • Build internal tools and workflows that make operations, quality assurance, and delivery fast and consistent.
  • Work closely with customers and operators to translate needs into product and ship iteratively.
  • Own projects end-to-end.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience as an early hire at a startup.
  • History of shipping high-quality products with real users.
  • Experience building simple tooling, including minimal internal APIs and Svelte dashboards.
  • Active GitHub or portfolio projects.

About the company

SieveData runs a cloud-based AI platform for building and deploying custom video and audio applications, providing ready-made models and the deployment infrastructure so product teams can create and own AI-powered features with just a few lines of code. Developers use APIs to integrate capabilities like video cropping, translation, transcription, and noise removal, while each app includes an auto-generated playground for testing and collaboration; the system scales automatically as traffic grows. It differentiates itself by pairing usable AI models with end-to-end infrastructure and an emphasis on ownership, plus per-app playgrounds and automatic scaling to support rapid collaboration. The goal is to help product teams quickly build, test, and deploy scalable, cost-visible video and audio AI features.

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

Seed

Total Funding

$4.1M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2021

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What believers are saying

  • On 2026-08-02, Sieve marketed secure delivery, samples, and SLA-backed custom datasets.
  • ai|coustics partnered on 2024-11-19, adding studio-quality speech enhancement to Sieve.
  • Sieve still advertises purchase-agreement revenue from volume, annotations, and task complexity.

What critics are saying

  • The old sievedata.com developer API vanished in 2026, destroying its prior audience.
  • The company raised only $4.5 million total, limiting runway against richer data rivals.
  • If frontier labs internalize data pipelines, Sieve's marketplace becomes a dead-end service.

What makes Sieve unique

  • Sieve.ai's 2026 pivot sells multimodal data, not commodity video APIs.
  • It packages synchronized video, speech, image, and interaction data with licensing and QA.
  • Sieve indexes billions of clips with detectors and embeddings, then delivers training-ready datasets.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Unlimited Paid Time Off
  • Flexible Work Hours
  • Hybrid Work Options
  • Remote Work Options
  • Paid Vacation
  • Paid Sick Leave
  • Paid Holidays
  • Wellness Program
  • Mental Health Support

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

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1 year growth

0%

2 year growth

-8%
Sieve
Nov 22nd, 2023
source for fast, high

To improve this, Sievedata has introduced a series of optimizations on the original repository that greatly improves speed and performance.

Sieve
Oct 10th, 2023
Sieve's Video AI API Beta and ~$4M Raise

The explosion of rich data, the Sieve public beta, our ~$4M seed round, and how we enable developers to build amazing experiences with video + AI.