Machine Learning Engineer

Company: Hedra Inc.
Location: New York
Posted on: February 1, 2025

Job Description:

About Hedra:Hedra is a pioneering video foundation model company founded by former Stanford PhDs backed by top investors at Index, A16Z Games, and Abstract Ventures. We're building a unified creation studio that empowers users to generate dialogue, audio, and video, effectively automating their digital presence.Our flagship product, Character-1, launched in late June and has already garnered , landing us on the top of Reddit (multiple times!) and Twitter, while attracting over 450,000 registered users and generating millions of videos. We raised 10 million dollars in our seed round to revolutionize content creation.As we continue to expand, we're seeking a dynamic individual to lead marketing and propel Hedra to new heights.Note: Hedra is not a 9-5 job, we're a team of passionate individuals seeking to fundamentally change content and build a generational company together. You must be willing to work in-person in either NYC or SF.Summary:As our Machine Learning Engineer, you will build and manage the services and infrastructure that power and serve our models and the videos that they generate. You will combine best in class knowledge building backend services, maintaining our infrastructure as code, and deploying the models that power our services. 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:

• Experience accelerating and deploying latent diffusion models, diffusion transformers, or state space models using best pytorch practices and tensorrt.
• Building out and scaling our cloud-based infrastructure (in AWS and Oracle clouds), leveraging Kubernetes (EKS), infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• Experience developing/scaling pipelines, event streaming/processing in AWS, using tools such as SQS or Kafka.
• Startup Experience is a must - we work hard and build quickly. This is not a 9-5 nor weekday only job.
• Experience architecting and implementing REST APIs for distributed systems.
• Experience with k8s, docker, especially in the context of deploying machine learning models on nvidia hardware.
• At least 5 years of professional Python or Golang.Personality:
  • Self-motivated and independent - able to set accurate timelines for development and deliver on them. Have an opinion and the experience to backup that opinion.
  • Low ego, high patience, strong communication skills.
  • Understand operational costs and overhead short and long term.
  • Mission-driven - we are building something fundamentally disruptive and this reflects deeply in our company DNA.
  • And most importantly, treat Hedra as your own and help shape the vision accordingly.Benefits:
    • Competitive compensation and equity.
    • 401k.
    • Healthcare (Silver PPO Medical, Vision, Dental).
    • Gym access (at our office).
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