Senior / Staff Full-Stack Engineer

Hedra is an AI that bridges the gap between market intelligence and content generation. By analyzing your existing assets Hedra ensures every new creation is deeply aligned with your audience preferences market trends and your brands core identity.
Backed by $45 million from premier investors like A16Z Index and Abstract Ventures we are building the world’s most advanced models for unified media understanding. Today Hedra powers the creative workflows of 10 million users and 20% of the Fortune 500. Join our team of world-class researchers and engineers as we define the next generation of creative super intelligence.

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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

What We Do

Hedra is an AI native platform for multimodal creation. The platform is built around their own cutting-edge proprietary video model Character-3 which is the first multimodal model in production. Alongside Character-3 the platform also brings other leading foundation models into one ecosystem spanning generative images video and audio. Prosumer and enterprise users leverage Hedra to generate content ranging from viral social media to branded content marketing.

Why Work With Us

We're an early-stage team that moves very fast and is building at the leading edge of AI/Media. Every employee takes on a lot of ownership and has an opportunity to learn and grow rapidly.

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