Founding AI Engineer

Hera is building the world's first AI motion designer that creates professional animations through conversation. As a founding engineer, you will build and optimize AI systems for animation generation, develop evaluation frameworks, and create fine-tuning pipelines. The role involves partnering with designers and marketers to turn domain knowledge into AI training data. You will work on cutting-edge controllable motion graphics generation.

• Build and optimize AI systems to generate high-quality animations that follow core motion design principles
• Develop comprehensive evaluation frameworks to assess animation quality, combining automated metrics with expert validation
• Partner with motion designers and marketers to translate professional design knowledge into AI training data and evaluation criteria
• Design and implement fine-tuning pipelines that teach Hera domain-specific animation styles and brand guidelines
• Create feedback loops between user preferences, expert input, and model performance to continuously improve animation quality
• Research and prototype state-of-the-art approaches for controllable, style-consistent motion graphics generation

• Hungry and obsessed with building something massive
• Entrepreneurial with a track record of building things
• Thrives in ambiguity with no clear roadmaps