Senior/Staff Frontend Engineer, Hedra

$175-275k

+Equity

React

CSS

TypeScript

Redux

JavaScript

Senior and Expert level

New York

San Francisco Bay Area

Creation lab building foundation models for next-gen human storytelling

Open for applications

Creation lab building foundation models for next-gen human storytelling

1-20 employees

B2BContentDigital MediaSaaS

Open for applications

$175-275k

+Equity

React

CSS

TypeScript

Redux

JavaScript

Senior and Expert 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.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Experience using Typescript, Javascript, React, and NextJS
Experience interfacing with RESTful APIs, and familiar with standards such as OpenAPI and JWT
Experience with CSS and Tailwind
Experience developing a component library and design systems, and using tools such as storybook
Experience working with frameworks such as Redux, Zustand
Startup Experience is a must — we work hard and build quickly
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

What the job involves

As a Frontend Engineer, you will work with our design team to build next generation collaborative interfaces for creating, optimizing, and deploying generative media leveraging the latest media foundation models from Hedra and beyond
You will build novel interaction paradigms that power a tool used by millions of creators

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.

Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Company

Funding (2 rounds)

May 2025

$32m

SERIES A

Aug 2024

$10m

SEED

Total funding: $42m

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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