Senior Frontend Engineer, Hedra
$125-185k
+Equity
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
Open for applications
$125-185k
+Equity
1-20 employees
Company mission
To build foundation models into products that power the next generation of human storytelling.
Role
Who you are
- You should have start-up experience and be a self-starter that is driven to build impactful products that change the status quo. You must be willing to work in-person in either NYC or SF
- Experience using Typescript, Javascript, React, and NextJS
- Familiarity with authentication / authorization using oauth2 and OIDC
- Experience interfacing with RESTful APIs, and familiar with standards such as OpenAPI and JWT
- Experience writing unit and integration tests, working with CI/CD, and writing functional-tests using tools such as Playwright
- Familiarity with audio/video web standards and tools, such as Webcodecs, webRTC, HLS, MP-DASH, FFMPEG, MP4, and MKV
- Strong familiarity with frameworks / standards / concepts such as WASM, websockets, IndexedDB, promises, generators, and coroutines
- 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, RTK, RTK-Query, and Mobx
- 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
- At least 5 years of professional Javascript/Typescript
- 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
- We're seeking a dynamic individual to lead marketing and propel Hedra to new heights
- As a Senior Frontend Engineer, you will design, build, and deploy the frontend web apps that power our transformative products, including Create, Stylize, and Studio. You will work with emerging web standards to build web-based video and audio creation / editing tools, utilizing Webcodecs, WASM, and FFMPEG
- You will also work with frameworks/languages such as NextJS, React, Redux, Mobx, Typescript and Javascript, and dive deep into video container formats and streaming protocols, such as MP4, MKV, HLS, and MP-DASH
- You will work with passionate engineers and top researchers to build a truly disruptive and novel technology. We’re looking for full-time hires for our New York or San Francisco offices
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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