Job Description
Role: Founding Engineer (Full-Stack/AI) Location: New York, NY | Full-time | On-site Compensation: $170k - $225k + Equity (0.75% - 1.25%) About the Role This is your chance to be a founding engineer at a stealth AI startup redefining video creation and collaboration. We're looking for ambitious engineers with a founder mindset who want to own products, design AI workflows, and build new tools that don't exist yet. You'll work in a high-impact, small, and talent-dense team iterating rapidly with users, pushing the boundaries of AI pipelines, real-time collaboration, and video/graphics rendering. What You Will Do Build & Ship Fast - Design, develop, and deploy full-stack features across web and AI-powered pipelines. AI-Enhanced Video - Implement real-time Figma-style collaboration and reasoning-heavy video/graphics systems. Prototype New AI Systems - Explore frontier diffusion models, reasoning models, and data-driven evaluation pipelines. Server & Graphics Optimization - Extend and optimize backend video/graphics rendering. Shaders & Visual Effects - Write WebGL shaders for advanced graphics and special effects. End-to-End Ownership - Take responsibility across front-end, back-end, and AI systems to deliver high-quality production-ready solutions. What Will You Bring 3+ years of full-stack engineering experience, ideally in early-stage startups. Expertise in React and modern web frameworks. Strong interest in AI, machine learning, and novel media technologies. Ability to ship production-ready code rapidly while maintaining quality. Creative problem-solving skills and comfort experimenting with new technologies. Passion for building products from 0→1 in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. Compe