Senior Frontend Engineer

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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 Frontend Engineer, you will design, build, and deploy the frontend web apps that power our transformative products, including Create , Stylize , and Studio . You will work with emerging web standards to build web-based video and audio creation / editing tools, utilizing Webcodecs, WASM, 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 work with passionate engineers and top researchers to build a truly disruptive and novel technology.
Experience:

• Experience using Typescript, Javascript, React, and NextJS
• Familiarity with authentication / authorization using oauth2 and OIDC
• Experience interfacing with RESTful APIs, and familiar with standards such as OpenAPI and JWT
• Experience writing unit and integration tests, working with CI/CD, and writing functional-tests using tools such as Playwright
• Familiarity with audio/video web standards and tools, such as Webcodecs, webRTC, HLS, MP-DASH, FFMPEG, MP4, and MKV
• Strong familiarity with frameworks / standards / concepts such as WASM, websockets, IndexedDB, promises, generators, and coroutines
• Experience with CSS and Tailwind
• Experience developing a component library and design systems, and using tools such as storybook
• Experience working with frameworks such as Redux, RTK, RTK-Query, and Mobx
• 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).
• 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.
• At least 5 years of professional Javascript/Typescript.
  

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.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Technology, Information and Internet

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