Senior Backend Engineer, Hedra

$130-190k

+ Equity

AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Python
Kafka
Parquet
REST API
Golang
DynamoDB
FastAPI
Pydantic
Senior level
New York
San Francisco Bay Area
Hedra

Creation lab building foundation models for next-gen human storytelling

Open for applications

Hedra

Creation lab building foundation models for next-gen human storytelling

1-20 employees

B2BContentDigital MediaSaaS

Open for applications

$130-190k

+ Equity

AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Python
Kafka
Parquet
REST API
Golang
DynamoDB
FastAPI
Pydantic
Senior level
New York
San Francisco Bay Area

1-20 employees

B2BContentDigital MediaSaaS

Company mission

To build foundation models into products that power the next generation of human storytelling.

Role

Who you are

  • R. You should have start-up experience and be a self-starter that is driven to build impactful products that change the status quo
  • Experience developing scalable services using Python
  • Experience developing RESTFUL APIs using frameworks such as FastAPI and Pydantic
  • Familiarity with authentication / authorization, utilizing standards such as oauth2, OIDC, and JWT
  • Experience working with relational and noSQL datastores (such as DynamoDB)
  • Experience writing unit and integration tests and working with CI/CD and dev-containers
  • Experience writing scalable, async code and leveraging asyncio, generators, coroutines
  • Experience building and scaling cloud-based infrastructure leveraging Kubernetes and EKS
  • Familiarity with AWS IAM, IRSA, ALB/NLB, route53, S3, lambda
  • Familiarity leveraging schema-registry, and serialization protocols such as avro, parquet, and JSON-schema
  • Experience developing/scaling pipelines, event streaming/processing in AWS, using tools such as SQS or Kafka
  • Startup Experience is a must — we work hard and build quickly. Ideal candidates should be passionate with an always-on attitude that drives them to live and breathe the product (not a “punch the clock” disposition)
  • Experience architecting and implementing REST APIs for distributed systems
  • Experience with k8s, docker, especially in the context of deploying machine learning models on nvidia hardware
  • Familiarity with audio/video web standards and tools, such as Webcodecs, webRTC, HLS, MP-DASH, FFMPEG, MP4, and MKV a plus
  • At least 5 years of professional Python or Golang
  • Self-motivated and independent — able to set accurate timelines for development and deliver on them. Have an opinion and the experience to backup that opinion
  • Low ego, high patience, strong communication skills
  • Understand operational costs and overhead short and long term
  • Mission-driven — we are building something fundamentally disruptive and this reflects deeply in our company DNA
  • And most importantly, treat Hedra as your own and help shape the vision accordingly

What the job involves

  • As we continue to expand, we're seeking a dynamic individual to lead marketing and propel Hedra to new heights
  • As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will design, build, and deploy the backend services that power our transformative products, including Create, Stylize, and Studio
  • You will work with web and video standards to power our suite of web-based video and audio creation / editing tools
  • You will also dive deep into video container formats and streaming protocols, such as MP4, MKV, HLS, and MP-DASH, and work with tools such as FFMPEG
  • You will also work on building and deploying backend services and APIs to our Kubernetes infrastructure, write secure, stable, and scalable Python code, interface with our ground-breaking foundation model, and integrate with SQS, Kafka, S3, and DynamoDB to implement event streaming/processing logic
  • You will work with passionate engineers and top researchers to build a truly disruptive and novel technology

Our take

The relationship between machine learning and online content has grown closer in recent years, and Hedra is a video content platform that is pushing this symbiosis into new territory. Describing itself as a video foundation mode company, Hedra is building an online creation studio that helps users generate dialogue, audio and video from words.

As a digital presence automation tool, Hedra is moving beyond the likes of DallE and generative AI video content into more nuanced territory. Its most recent product is Character1, a video foundation model for longer-form video generation focusing on customizable AI-generated video characters.

Since Character1’s release in June 2024, more than 1.6 million videos have been generated via the platform, demonstrating the need for its August seed funding round. The $10 million investment will be channelled into developing new technology like a multimodal studio and workflow tool to complement its foundation model.

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Insights

Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

Company

Funding (1 round)

Aug 2024

$10m

SEED

Total funding: $10m

Company benefits

  • Equity
  • 401k (no match)
  • Healthcare (Silver PPO Medical, Vision, Dental)
  • Gym access (at our office)

Company HQ

SoMa, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Michael Lingelbach

(Founder & CEO)

Previously Regina Casper Graduate Research Fellow at Stanford University, was an Intern at NVIDIA, Postbaccaulaureate researcher at Salk Institute for Biological Studies and a Scholar at the Janelia Research Campus.

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