Design Engineer

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  • Hedra
  • San Francisco,
  • 1 month ago
  • $175K – $275K +Benefits +Equity
Published
January 8, 2026
Location
San Francisco
Job Type

Job Description

About Hedra:

Hedra is a pioneering generative media company backed by top investors at A16Z, Index, and Abstract Ventures. We're building Hedra Studio, a multimodal creation platform capable of control, emotion, and creative intelligence.

At the core of Hedra Studio is our Character-3 foundation model, the first omnimodal model in production. Character-3 jointly reasons across image, text, and audio for more intelligent video generation — it’s the next evolution of AI-driven content creation.

Summary:

As a Design Engineer, you'll build Hedra's next generation collaborative web interfaces for creating, optimizing, and deploying generative media leveraging the latest media foundation models from Hedra and beyond. You will build novel interaction paradigms that power a tool used by millions of creators.

Experience:

  • Experience using React, Typescript, Javascript, and NextJS

  • Experience interfacing with RESTful APIs, and familiar with standards such as OpenAPI

  • Experience with CSS and Tailwind

  • Experience developing a component library and design systems, and using tools such as Storybook

  • Experience working with frameworks such as TanStack/React Query, Zustand, and Redux

Benefits:

  • Competitive compensation and equity

  • 401k

  • Healthcare (Silver PPO Medical, Vision, Dental)

  • Lunch and snacks at the office

We encourage you to apply even if you don't fully meet all the listed requirements; we value potential and diverse perspectives, and your unique skills could be a great asset to our team.

Key Skills
? Key Skills in dark blue have been inferred based on similar industry roles
React Typescript Javascript NextJS CSS

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