Founding Software Engineer - AI Video & Multimodal Platform
Job Description
Job Description
About the Role
As a Founding Software Engineer, you will own the core architecture driving our high-throughput, low-latency video and multimodal AI platform. You’ll work directly at the intersection of deep learning, real-time media processing, and distributed GPU infrastructure—turning state-of-the-art models into resilient, production-ready systems handling petabytes of media data.
What You’ll Do
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Scale GPU Infra: Architect and manage high-concurrency, low-latency AI inference pipelines using TensorRT, ONNX Runtime, CUDA, or vLLM.
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Media Pipelines: Design robust streaming, encoding, and decoding workflows for complex video and audio formats (FFmpeg, WebRTC, GStreamer).
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Developer Platform: Build clean, high-performance APIs and SDKs to integrate our multimodal models into client and partner ecosystems.
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Productionize Research: Collaborate directly with AI researchers to optimize, package, and deploy frontier generative models into stable microservices.
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What We’re Looking For
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Core Systems Mastery: 4+ years of production experience in Python, C++, or Rust.
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AI/ML Systems: Hands-on experience optimizing and scaling PyTorch models for production GPU workloads.
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Media & Async Processing: Deep familiarity with media codecs, streaming protocols, and async backends (Celery, Redis, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP).
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Founding Energy: High execution velocity, strong technical ownership, and comfort building from 0-to-1 in a fast-moving startup environment.
Nice to Haves
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Experience with multimodal LLMs, vision-language models, or diffusion generative video architectures.
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Expertise in multi-cloud GPU resource optimization and cost reduction.
Who We Are & What We Offer
We are a Y Combinator-backed AI infrastructure startup solving the biggest bottleneck in multimodal media: high-throughput video and audio data processing. Our platform powers real-time AI dubbing, generative video tools, and exabyte-scale data curation for leading frontier AI labs.
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Comp: Top-of-market base salary ($150k – $250k) + meaningful equity.
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Flexibility: Remote / Hybrid autonomy.
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Perks: Premium health, dental, and vision coverages, workspace stipend, and flexible PTO.
Company DescriptionScale next-gen AI media infra with YC-backed founders. Petabyte-scale impact, top-market pay, and direct architectural ownership
Company Description
Scale next-gen AI media infra with YC-backed founders. Petabyte-scale impact, top-market pay, and direct architectural ownership