Full Stack AI Engineer

📦 What is Hero and Lemonlight?

Hero’s the coolest product I’ve worked on in my >15+ year career. It even blows away my own startups I founded.

Getting from idea in your head to filming it on set is a massive challenge. Not only is there friction with your own creative process, but you need to keep teammates aligned, share drafts, loop in teammates for different roles, manage real world hurdles, and navigate client feedback. In the end, final deliverables often miss the mark between the original goal and what is the final video file.

This is what Hero solves. It’s an AI forward SaaS product that aims to transform the film and commercial industry. Our customers are professionals with a real budget, not grandmas making cat videos with Sora (RIP). Our users use Premiere Pro, not CapCut. And our customers are teams of creatives, producers, and talent working together on a common goal. Today, we’re focused on cracking the short form ad market. The future is end to end across all video creative.

Where most products are fighting in a red ocean for AI gen video, we harness the best models, sequence and chain them together with smarter prompting, and focus on the actual pain point of creative generation which is pre-production. Then, we’ll let the competition fight each other on “press button, get video” while we dominate the space of “press button, go to set” and “press button, get crew”. We firmly believe that while AI will accelerate creative, it is the human in the loop with taste and teamwork that gets something from a B to A+. If you want to work on a product using the best image, text, and video models with workflows designed for real collaboration, this is it.

Lemonlight is our parent company, serving over 50k videos to market from massive brands (Amazon, Walmart, etc) to local mom & pop services. We get to build software literally in the studios and building where producers, editors, coordinators, and the entire team bustles around.

We’re getting ready to double down on pre-production logistics and our crew and talent marketplace. We’re about to come out of closed Beta in June, and you’ll be working on a boatload of zero to one products. If this sounds like somewhere you’d thrive, let’s talk.

↗️ Why are we hiring?

We are growing both our creative squad (working on our storytelling models and process) and our new marketplace squad (focused on driving new value to the market). We are also actively shifting our SDLC and PDLC to increase velocity and leverage the best practices today on AI deployment.

I’m looking for a full-stack builder; someone to create FOMO in our building by deploying at speed while also being able to make savvy product decisions. You’ll be a founding engineer on a brand new squad, so we need someone who is ready to get dirty, set culture, and ship and learn fast. This teammate needs to be able to be autonomous (manage your own tickets, write your own code, and deploy) and be a great teammate (cooperating with engineers on other squads and ensuring our core product is stable). We have a high risk tolerance to move fast, ship, break, fix.

☑️ Requirements

1. Ship and deploy. Work with PXMs on specifications and problems, then ship full-stack solutions in new greenspaces and to our existing codebase. Identify opportunities as a product thinker, and deploy as an engineer. You will own the outcome of the results in market.
2. Own your work. UAT, QA, and review your own work, and be the first and last line of defence (along with an army of agents). Outcome is you have a healthy bug:release ratio.
3. Mentor and grow the team. Show your excellence, then turn around and teach others your ways. Outcome is individual team skills grow.

➕ Nice to Have

1. Leadership chops - demonstrate teams you’ve led with a clear mission and outcomes you’ve owned and won.
2. Film chops - background in the film or video industry.
3. Image and video model chops - demonstrate experience working with image and video model APIs with real customers.
4. Chaining and harnessing chops - demonstrate knowledge of chaining prompts and models based on user jobs to be done and model skills.
5. Ops chops - proven background with Dev Ops or Product Ops.
6. Proven velocity - prove from past experience how you’ve >2x’d deployment velocity for a team.
7. Design chops - showcase visual design skills or design system management in the AI era.
8. Product chops - showcase product sense and strategic opportunity identification taken to market by you.

⚙️ Stack & Team

React.js/query, tailwind, node.js, Fal (most image models), AWS, MongoDB. 2 PXMs, 6 eng, 1 QA, SVP product & engineering. Most of the team is in Poland, with 2 people in LA. We are expanding both locations.

💰 JD & Pay:

1. We are looking for talent in LA, Poland, or PST Hours.
2. Level: IC L4 to IC L5 Senior. Leveling will be assessed in the interview process.
3. In Office LA Offer: $130k USD to $210k USD based on level. In office mandatory. FTE with benefits. PST hours.
4. Remote PL Offer: PLN zł288,600 to PLN zł466,200 based on level. Contract based if remote. Remote workers are paid in local currency.
5. Remote PST Offer: Range determined on location. Contact based. Needs to be able to work PST hours. Remote workers are paid in local currency.
6. Reports to SVP of Product & Engineering

❤️ Our Culture:

1. Better > Best. You won’t ever be perfect, so strive to consistently be 1% better than yesterday. It is far better to act, move, and learn than to wait for the never-arriving perfect moment. “I am always growing.”
2. Customers → Team → You. Do what’s right for the customer. A decision that’s good for you and bad for the customer is the wrong decision.
3. Play is a KPI. Play is the natural outcome of the whole machine working. If we aren't laughing (including at ourselves), something went wrong. There is no better compliment from our customers than them truly playing with Hero.
4. Teamwork is the superpower. No individual can outperform a team working well together. If in doubt, help your teammate.
5. Be Curious, not judgmental. Judgement and assumptions close doors. Humility and curiosity opens them.
6. Everyone builds. Simple. Managers build. ICs build. Everyone ships. Everyone owns the outcomes of what they make.

🗣️ Application Process:

If this sounds good, we have a four step application process: 1) recorded video screener, 2) live behavioral, 3) live case study, 4) paid project based on your availability. If all those go well, then we go to an offer. You can start the process here: https://forms.gle/5WvtsjkmhDpNznog8

I look forward to hearing from you!