
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
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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”
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 Full-Stack Engineer , you will design, build, and deploy the frontend and backend services that power our transformative products. You will work with emerging web standards to build web-based video and audio creation / editing tools, utilizing Webcodecs, web-assembly, 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 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.
Must-Have Experience:
Nice-To-Have Experience:
Benefits:
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. Compensation Range: $175K - $275K