Senior AI Product Engineer (SF)
KapwingMultimedia and company
San Francisco, United StatesSenior
CRV
Kleiner Perkins
Vector Capital
Xoogler
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Develop and launch full-stack features for Kapwing's AI-powered video editing platform.
- •Kapwing is building the next generation prompt-to-edit platform for video creators.
- •Our mission is to make content creation fast, accessible, and collaborative.
- •Key Responsibilities Define, build, and launch full-stack features for one of the world's most popular cloud-based video editors.
- •Design, test, and implement LLM powered pipelines to automate away tedious parts of visual design and video editing.
- •Prototype and test new technologies and generative models to evaluate quality, revise prompts, and improve performance.
- •Test new features, monitor releases, and mitigate risk.
- •Investigate and prototype new technologies and build applications on top of ML-powered APIs.
- •Implement new features and improvements to Kapwing’s Studio and other core products.
- •Partner with product and growth to reach new creators and sell to creative enterprises.
- •Requirements 5+ years of production-level software engineering experience in a modern web stack. 2+ years of experience building on top of LLMs; Familiarity modifying files with LLM tool calling.
- •Comfortable with React, Redux, Typescript, Node, automated testing (i.e.
- •Cypress, Jest) and tRPC APIs.
- •Experience prototyping and building new products from scratch.
- •Can evaluate, configure, and incorporate new web technology.
- •Scrappy: Define and quickly execute on MVPs to test product hypotheses.
- •Descopes problems to avoid getting lost in the weeds.
- •Entrepreneurial: Excited about joining a small team and contributing across all areas of the company.
- •No ego: There’s a lot we wish we could do but don’t have time for.
- •Must have the ability to put the product’s needs first. [Preferred] Interest in or experience with video engineering (processing, uploads, FFMPEG, visual recognition, etc).
- •Work authorization in the USA for 4+ years without sponsorship.
Required skills
ReactNode.jsPythonTypeScriptReduxLLMsCypressJest
Domain expertise
ai
Tech stack
ReactNode.jsPythonTypeScriptReduxLLMsCypressJest