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Software engineer
- Location
- San Francisco
- Type
- Full time
- Compensation
- $150k-$200k
- Posted
- 2 days ago
Join a team building useful software. Work closely with engineering and design to turn new ideas into products.
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Founding Engineer
- Location
- Los Angeles
- Type
- Full time
- Posted
- 3MO AGO
About the role
AboutFounding Engineer
Build the core creative system behind AI video production
We're hiring a Founding Engineer to build the core creative system behind AI video production. The product is a creative environment with agents inside it: a system that works across references, scripts, shots, edits, and revisions while the filmmaker keeps control of judgment and craft.
Many of the core problems mirror the hardest problems in coding agents: long-horizon reasoning, context management, retrieval, tool use, and orchestrating multiple agents over shared state. The difference is that the workspace here is multimodal, temporal, and much less objectively verifiable.
We use the product in real production, on client campaigns and our own films, so you'd build alongside the filmmakers using it. When the product gets better, you see it quickly in the work.
What you'd do
- Build foundational video reasoning systems that operate across creative workflows.
- Design the context and retrieval systems that reason over brand context and production data.
- Ship creative tooling and workflows that make filmmakers and clients dramatically more effective.
- Own the evaluation and data infrastructure behind video generation.
- Build the real-time, multiplayer environment where filmmakers and agents work in the same workspace.
- Sit with filmmakers when systems fail, and turn the failure cases into better product behavior.
What we're looking for
- You move fast and think in systems.
- You've built technically ambitious systems or great user-facing products.
- Depth in at least one of: agent systems, retrieval and context systems, or real-time collaboration.
- Bonus points for experience with video pipelines, media processing, or creative tooling.
- We care more about slope and proof of exceptional ability than years of experience.
Every role is full-time, in person, and based in Los Angeles.
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