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title: 'Principal Technical Recruiter at Topaz Labs'
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# Principal Technical Recruiter at Topaz Labs

- **Company:** Topaz Labs
- **Location:** Dallas, TX
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2025-09-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/topazlabs/0d224edd-4fe0-43ce-b563-09a290991c2e

## Job description

Topaz Labs produces AI imaging technology that helps over 1 million paying customers (including teams at Google, Nvidia, and NASA) maximize 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.

We've grown the team from 20 to 63 in the last 3 years, and now it's time to scale recruiting to match our high growth trajectory. To help us do this, we're looking for a mission-driven and passionate Principal Recruiter to partner with our CEO and take ownership of our sourcing strategy and recruiting engine. This is a unique opportunity for a smart, scrappy, and motivated individual to help build our rocket right from the launchpad.

About us:

- Rocketship growth and opportunity for impact ($3M → $48M revenue in six years)
- Over 1 million customers (including companies like Apple, NASA, Nvidia) have used us for over 1 billion photos. Our tech has been covered by Fast Company, The Verge, Engadget, Mashable, BBC, and Fox News
- World-class team that executes quickly, obsesses about the customer experience, and promotes from within
- Profitable company with infinite runway

About you:

- 5+ years in technology recruiting, ideally within AI
- You're the same kind of person that you'll be looking for: you're deeply passionate about your work and possess an unusually strong work ethic.
- You have an effective approach to sourcing past simple boolean searches on LinkedIn. (What's one thing you do differently from other recruiters?)
- You're execution-focused and obsessed with making the details great.
- You're a great written and verbal communicator.

This is a great opportunity for the perfect person to shape our culture by building our recruiting team from the ground up. 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 on-site role in Dallas, TX, and we will ask you to relocate if you're not in the area.

## About Topaz Labs

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Topaz Labs builds professional-grade photo and video enhancement software powered by deep learning AI, enabling noise reduction, sharpening, and upscaling.
- **Entity Type**: Private (bootstrapped with a $200K grant in 2025)
- **Headquarters**: Dallas, Texas, United States
- **Founded**: 2005 (some sources list 2001 or 2006; the company’s own site says “est. 2001”)
- **Founders**: Feng Yang (Co-Founder, Adviser); Eric Yang (CEO) is also a key leader but not necessarily a founder.

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Computer Vision, AI-Powered Imaging Software, Photo/Video Editing
- **Target customers**: Professional photographers, videographers, and creative teams (B2B and B2C; includes enterprise clients like Apple, Netflix, NASA)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “We push the boundaries of what’s possible, not just for our technology, but for ourselves. We ship fast, learn from our mistakes, and don’t take ourselves too seriously.”

## Products & Services
- **[Topaz Photo AI](https://www.topazlabs.com/topaz-photo-ai)**: Desktop application (macOS, Windows) for AI-powered denoising, sharpening, and upscaling of still images.
- **[Topaz Video AI](https://www.topazlabs.com/topaz-video-ai)**: Desktop application for AI-driven video enhancement, including upscaling, frame interpolation, and deinterlacing.
- **[Topaz Image Web (Cloud)](https://www.topazlabs.com/image-web)**: Browser-based AI image enhancement and upscaling, no local installation required.
- **[NeuroStream 2](https://www.topazlabs.com)**: Proprietary inference engine that dramatically speeds up AI processing (announced May 2026).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of ~$8.3M (as of 2026); Total Funding: $200,000 (grant from Town of Addison, Jan 2025)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Town of Addison (grant); customer logos include Apple, Netflix, NASA
- **Growth Signals**: 1500% revenue growth in the last 6 years; 40% headcount growth YoY (75 employees); over 2 billion images processed; new video enhancement model “Astra 2” announced May 2026.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep learning expertise**: Specialized computer vision models trained on massive image datasets, delivering state-of-the-art denoising and super-resolution.
- **Speed & performance**: Proprietary NeuroStream inference engine provides faster processing than typical deep learning methods.
- **Trusted by top brands**: Used by major studios and organizations (Apple, Netflix, NASA) – a strong quality signal.
- **Bootstrapped, profitable growth**: Maintained independence and high margins without heavy VC dilution.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI model evolution**: Continuously releasing new models (e.g., Astra 2, Starlight Precise 2.5) for video and image enhancement.
- **Cloud expansion**: Launching web-based AI tools to reach a broader, less technical audience.
- **On-site collaboration**: Prioritizing in-person teamwork at the Dallas HQ, citing energy and creativity as key to the 12x revenue growth since 2018.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Small, builder-focused team that values craftsmanship, speed, and learning from mistakes. Described as “not easy or relaxing” but high-impact.
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: On-site preferred (Dallas, TX) with flexible work-from-home when needed.
- **Perks & Benefits**: Company equity, performance bonuses, 401(k), family medical leave, and a collaborative environment with startup founders, PhD researchers, and photographers.
- **Engineering Culture**: Tackles hard problems in deep learning inference, consistency across hardware, and experimental development. Open roles are mostly on-site in Dallas.

## Sources
1. [topazlabs.com](https://www.topazlabs.com/careers) – Careers page
2. [jobs.lever.co/topazlabs](https://jobs.lever.co/topazlabs) – Job listings
3. [linkedin.com/company/topaz-labs](https://www.linkedin.com/company/topaz-labs) – Company profile
4. [builtin.com/company/topaz-labs](https://builtin.com/company/topaz-labs) – Perks + culture
5. [topazlabs.com](https://www.topazlabs.com/) – Main website product info

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