Senior / Staff Full-Stack Engineer, Hedra
$175-275k
Offers Equity
AI lab empowering creation with AI
Open for applications
AI lab empowering creation with AI
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$175-275k
Offers Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To build foundation models into products that power the next generation of human storytelling.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of professional experience with Javascript, React, NextJS, and Typescript
- Experience working closely with design and product to set and deliver engineering initiatives and projects
- A product-focused engineer who is passionate about the user experience and empowering creatives
- Familiarity with audio/video web standards and tools, such as Webcodecs, webRTC, HLS, MP-DASH, FFMPEG, MP4, and MKV
- 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)
- Personality:
- 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
Desirable
- Experience developing scalable services using Python or Golang
- Familiarity with authentication / authorization such as oauth2 and OIDC
- Experience working with relational and noSQL datastores (such as DynamoDB)
- Experience writing unit and integration tests, working with CI/CD, and writing functional-tests using tools such as Playwright
- Strong familiarity with frameworks / standards / concepts such as WASM, websockets, IndexedDB, promises, generators, and coroutines
- Experience building and scaling cloud-based infrastructure leveraging Kubernetes and EKS
- Experience developing/scaling pipelines, event streaming/processing in AWS, using tools such as SQS or Kafka
- 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
What the job involves
- As a Senior Full-Stack Engineer, you will design, build, and deploy the frontend and backend services that power our transformative products
- You will work with emerging web standards to build web-based video and audio creation / editing tools, utilizing Webcodecs, web-assembly, 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 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. 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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