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. You must be willing to work in-person in either NYC or SF.
Summary: As our frontend engineer, you will build a next-generation interface for controllable generative video generation. The systems you design and implement will determine the moment-to-moment responsiveness of the software, and with it the enjoyment and productivity of our users.
You will work with passionate engineers and top researchers to build a truly disruptive and novel technology. We're looking for full-time hires, ideally you will you join us at our office in San Francisco or New York.
Job Requirements:Experience: - 3+ years of professional Typescript and React.
- Greenfielded or contributed foundationally to a performant video editor.
- Experience working with RESTful APIs
Nice to Haves: - Experience with webcodecs or ffmpeg.wasm.
- Tailwind and Next.js proficiency
- Experience with web authorization/authentication
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.
- Passionate about writing clean, performant code, but understand that perfect is the enemy of the good (and prompt).
- 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 (no match)
- 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.