
The next generation multimodal content creation platform, powered by Character-3 ✨ careers @ https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hedra

The next generation multimodal content creation platform, powered by Character-3 ✨ careers @ https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hedra
What they do: Web-based AI creative studio for generating and editing video, image, and audio (Hedra Studio)
Proprietary tech: Character-3 model for expressive, controllable AI characters
Founded / HQ: Founded 2023; San Francisco and New York
Funding: $42M total reported; $32M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz (May 2025)
Team size: ~50 employees
Automating and accelerating creative content production (video, image, audio) using multimodal AI.
2023
Technology, Information and Internet
$10,000,000
Seed round with participation from Index Ventures, Abstract Ventures, and a16z Speedrun (reported)
$32,000,000
“Backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, Abstract Ventures, and Amazon's Alexa Fund”
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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.
Summary:
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will design, build, and deploy the backend services that power our transformative products, including Create, Stylize, and Studio. You will work with web and video standards to power our suite of web-based video and audio creation / editing tools. You will also dive deep into video container formats and streaming protocols, such as MP4, MKV, HLS, and MP-DASH, and work with tools such as FFMPEG.
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. We’re looking for full-time hires for our New York or San Francisco offices.
Experience:
Benefits:
Compensation Range: $175K - $275K