Senior / Staff Platform Engineer, Hedra
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AI lab empowering creation with AI
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AI lab empowering creation with AI
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
+ Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To build foundation models into products that power the next generation of human storytelling.
Role
Who you are
- At least 4+ years of experience building developer platforms, internal tooling, or platform engineering at technology companies
- Platform API design and building internal developer tooling, CLIs, and self-service portals for infrastructure resources
- Kubernetes platform expertise including building abstractions, operators, custom resources, and developer-friendly deployment workflows
- Infrastructure as Code mastery with Terraform for creating reusable modules and standardized infrastructure patterns
- Developer experience focus with experience building internal platforms that reduce cognitive load for engineering teams
- Container platform design including image registries, security scanning, and standardized base images for AI/ML workloads
- Service templating and standardization using tools like Helm, Kustomize, or custom controllers for consistent deployments
- Platform observability implementing centralized logging, metrics, and tracing that developers can easily consume
- Self-service automation building workflows that allow teams to provision resources without platform team intervention
- Cost transparency and governance implementing resource quotas, cost allocation, and usage visibility across teams
- Security by default designing platform services with built-in security controls, secrets management, and compliance guardrails
- Multi-tenancy and isolation ensuring teams can work independently while sharing platform resources safely
- Developer advocacy mindset with experience gathering requirements from engineering teams and translating them into platform capabilities
- Scalable platform architecture for supporting rapid team growth and varying workload demands
What the job involves
- As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will design and build the internal developer platform that empowers our engineering teams to deploy, scale, and manage our transformative AI-powered products efficiently
- You will create self-service infrastructure tooling, abstract away complexity from developers, and build the foundational platform capabilities that enable rapid innovation on our Character-3 foundation model
- You will architect developer-friendly APIs and interfaces for infrastructure resources, build automated provisioning workflows using Terraform, and create standardized deployment patterns on Kubernetes
- Your work will focus on enabling engineering teams to ship faster while maintaining reliability, security, and cost efficiency
- You'll design platform services that abstract the underlying complexity of our multi-modal AI workloads and video processing infrastructure
- You will partner with product engineers and researchers to understand their needs and translate them into scalable platform solutions
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. Working as a content engine, Hedra's online creation studio 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. For example, its product known as Character is a video foundation model for longer-form video generation focusing on customizable AI-generated video characters.
Between the version one release of Character in June 2024 and the company's fundraise that same August, more than 1.6 million videos had already been generated via the platform. This demonstrates the demand that exists for Hedra's offering. A new fundraise in 2025, which reportedly takes the company’s valuation to $200 million, will support the advancement of the quality and controllability of its models.
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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