Founding Engineer

• Video is the most compelling medium ever invented.
• But even a single minute of video can take hours to make and expertise across multiple tools.
• AI is changing this forever, and how we create and consume video will look completely different in 2 or 3 years time.
• We're starting by helping the fastest growing startups in the world make more compelling, authentic and entertaining content 100x faster than today.
• We're taking a novel technical approach in the video space. We think making videos is reasoning-heavy, so we're building low and high autonomy UXes that orchestrate the best domain-specific voice, video, and reasoning models.
• Our investors include YCombinator, General Catalyst, Leonis Capital, and angels from Pika Labs, Meta, Roblox, and Adobe.
• We’re a small experienced team based in Soho NYC.
• “Yarn has changed how we think about video. We’re now able to make high-retention content at scale – it feels like a secret weapon. I haven’t seen anyone else doing video like this with AI.” Varun Anand, Cofounder @ Clay

About the role

• We’re building in stealth with world-class teams at companies like Clay and Shopify, and we’re looking for founding engineers in-person in NYC.
• We’ve hit an inflection point on fit with our customers and looking to aggressively grow the team across engineering, AI, and design.
• Looking for super-ambitious engineers who want to own products and pipelines, have a founder mindset with strong equity, and invent some cool shit that doesn't exist yet.
• Things you might work on immediately
• Help build out our core agent workflows.
• Add Figma-style real-time collaboration between humans and AI to our core editing.
• Prototype new AI pipelines using frontier diffusion models, reasoning models, internal and external data, and evals.
• Extend and optimize our server-side video/graphics rendering pipeline.
• Write WebGL shaders for special FX and graphics.

How we work

• We believe in small, hard-working, talent-dense teams.
• We deeply care about our customers and relentlessly iterate and collaborate with them.
• We're generalists that enjoy picking up new challenges and learning new tech.
• We prototype broadly across technologies and UXes, then make aggressive product plays.