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Base pay range
$160,000.00/yr - $220,000.00/yr
About Our Work
Kino AI is building tools and training models to organize video. We serve top movie and TV studios, and we make editing more productive and enjoyable.
We're a deeply technical team from MIT, SpaceX, AWS and Citadel Securities. We're backed by Y Combinator, AI Grant, and many others.
Kino currently has more demand than it can handle. We need more engineers, deeper integration within current firms, and added capabilities. We're very excited about this next phase!
\ What you'll do
Our product retrieves video from a search engine and then renders a lot of it. Search results need to feel relevant and the data needs to render quickly.
To Contribute To This Product, You Will
Build new features that delight users and make them work faster
Implement hifi and lofi Figma designs
Abide by unique data privacy requirements
Expand our video playback and editing system
Add analytics, monitoring, and alerts to our service so that we can better respond to operational incidents
Implement end-to-end and unit tests to accelerate developer velocity
Respond to customer support issues and actively work to improve their daily usage of Kino
Our clients are top brands and media properties, whose footage is deeply important to them. We have very privileged access, and we must use it with care!
Tech
React (Typescript) with Tailwind, TanStack, and and web-based video technology
Lightweight state management library
Traditional db + vector db syncing
Designs in Figma (we believe traditional design systems slow us down)
About You
You have strong experience in React and web development, such that typical performance issues rarely appear
You are fast at implementing designs and maintain quality at top speed. You communicate when things will be done and stick to those deadlines. If there's a slowdown, you'll let us know immediately.
You have great aesthetic taste
You are obsessed with performance and craft insofar as it helps the customer
You have good intuition of what our unique customers actually care about (search quality, video playback, snappiness)
You are eager to tackle hard engineering problems: massive simultaneous video playback, maintaining customer data privacy, rendering massive lists of data
You are proactive - you anticipate problems before they arise, you know what questions you’ll be asked and have prepared responses before they’re asked, you predict what the company will need next and proactively outline what it is and the steps for how we’ll get there. You realize we are offering a service, not just a product, and you will work to proactively service our customers at every step.
Experience in video, graphics, and GPU intensive interfaces is a massive plus
\ Logistics
This is a full-time, in-person opportunity in San Francisco. We're big believers in in-person culture!
We are open to sponsoring International candidates (e.g STEM OPT, OPT, H1B, O1, E3)
$160,000 - $220,000 a year
0.75%-1.75% equity
Relocation support for those moving to the Bay Area
What We Offer
Work alongside world class engineers and applied researchers
Make your mark; this is a very new codebase heavy customer usage.
Impact on a product that will change the entertainment industry
Interact daily with some of the most important entertainment brands
Unlimited PTO
Seniority level
Entry level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Engineering and Information Technology
Industries
Software Development
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