Company Name: Pickford AI

Job Details: Hiring,Remotely,in,Los,Angeles,,CA,In-Office,or,Remote,Mid,level

Job Url: https://builtin.com/job/full-stack-developer-san-francisco/7498915

Job Description: Pickford is building the next generation of storytelling. We're building expressive interactive narratives, while preserving storytelling's historical foundation as a tight loop between audience and creator. Our focus story quality and audience engagement means we get to work with truly exceptional creators. Our AI expertise has attracted world-class researchers. Together we're defining a new category of media. All of this comes together in a UGC platform where creators can build, share, and collaborate on living stories which can only be powered by AI.Position Overview:We’re looking for a full stack engineer who’s motivated by working with a team to solve tough, unusual problems. In this role, you’ll work across the stack to design and implement the technology behind real-time, interactive stories at scale. Some days you might architect systems that combine thousands of audience inputs into a coherent narrative; others, you’ll integrate the latest research from our ML team into production.We value people who ask “How can we make this work?” and who enjoy building solutions that don’t have obvious blueprints. You’ll work closely with a small, multidisciplinary team of engineers and storytellers who are committed to building something genuinely new.Key Responsibilities:Design, prototype, and build systems that harness the latest AI models to orchestrate all components of a 3D animated storyDesign, prototype, and build systems to support a user facing creative platform allowing creation, collaboration, sharing, and viewing 3D animated storiesImprove various open source AI systems to produce meaningful and engaging storiesCo-create & implement creative storytelling strategies alongside Hollywood industry luminariesContinue to push the limits of our small teams’ capabilities through creative application of AI toolingRequirementsSkills and Qualifications:Experience with AI/ML integration in large scale web applicationsStrong background in traditional programming languages & algorithmsYou love digging your teeth into hard problems and solving them in nuanced waysComfortability with fast-paced development and high-risk, high-reward featuresYou love working with talented team members and they love working with youYou’re comfortable with augmenting your development with AI tools while ensuring a consistently high level of code qualityPreferred Qualifications:You’ve scaled a product to millions of active usersYou’ve deployed and/or maintained a realtime, AI-integrated system handling terabytes of dataYou’ve built actionable, realtime monitoring and analytics systems for large scale applications  You have experience with security techniques used to protect complicated web systemsBenefitsCompetitive salary, stock, and benefits packageThe space to work on truly crazy projects that will shape the future of mediaThe opportunity to closely collaborate with with amazing multidisciplinary talent – Hollywood creatives, world-class designers, superstar engineers, and incredible AI researchersAn environment designed to let everyone collaborate and be included no matter what speciality you previously hadUnique professional growth opportunities built directly into our development process