About Hedra: Hedra is a pioneering generative media company backed by top investors at Index, A16Z, and Abstract Ventures. We're building Hedra Studio, a multimodal creation platform capable of control, emotion, and creative intelligence. At the core of Hedra Studio is our Character-3 foundation model, the first omnimodal model in production. Character-3 jointly reasons across image, text, and audio for more intelligent video generation - it's the next evolution of AI-driven content creation. Note: At Hedra, we're a team of hard-working, passionate individuals seeking to fundamentally change content and build a generational company together. You should have start-up experience and be a self-starter that is driven to build impactful products that change the status quo. The Hedra team is fully in-person in SF/NY with a shared love of solving hard problems using whiteboards. Summary: 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. Must-Have Experience:
- 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).
Nice-To-Have Experience:
- 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.
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
Benefits:
- Competitive compensation and equity
- 401k
- Healthcare (Silver PPO Medical, Vision, Dental)
- Lunch and snacks at the office
We encourage you to apply even if you don't fully meet all the listed requirements; we value potential and diverse perspectives, and your unique skills could be a great asset to our team.