Senior Software Engineer, Agent Product (Palo Alto)

OpusClip is the world's No.1 AI video agent, built for authenticity on social media.

We envision a world where everyone can authentically share their story through video, with no expertise needed. Within just 18 months of our launch, over 10 million creators and businesses have used OpusClip to enhance their social presence.

We have raised $50 million in total funding and are fortunate to have some of the most supportive investors, including SoftBank Vision Fund, DCM Ventures, Millennium New Horizons, Fellows Fund, AI Grant, Jason Lemkin (SaaStr), Samsung Next, GTMfund, Alumni Ventures, and many more.

Check out our latest coverage by Business Insider featuring our product and funding milestones, and our recognition as one of The Information's 50 Most Promising Startups in 2024.

Headquartered in Palo Alto, we are a team of 100 passionate and experienced AI enthusiasts and video experts, driven by our core values:

• Be a Champion Team

• Prioritize Ruthlessly

• Ship fast, Quality Follows

• Obsess over customers

Be a part of this exciting journey with us!

Background and Responsibilities:

• We are building a new team in US to hack and build our next generation smart AI video maker that can ingest user's content and compose quality videos for the social media. This product will be considered impossible before but you make people change their mind.

• You will be working closely with the product, marketing to rush prototype, beta and the production version of this impossible product using agent technology.

Our tech stack: GCP, Typescript, Python, Redis/MongoDB/Cloud Storage, lots of AI models

Qualifications:

Keywords: ambitious, scrappy, generalist, growth mindset, taste

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field. A total of 5-8 years of experience in software engineering.

• A strong entrepreneurial or hacker spirit or experience in a rapidly growing startup. Believes that speed is key and quality to follow later. You dare to set ambitious goals and deadlines. And you work hard and smart for it. You enjoy the challenge and treat it like a sport.

• You resonate with the combat spirit to win if you've watched the F1 Movie.

• Fast learner and self-starter as a full-stack engineer. A broad range of tech skills are preferred. Must have both front-end (such as React) and server-side skills (NodeJS, Django etc).

• Strong product and business sense and can build product based on customers' needs. You love building a product from the ground up. You can solve agent reliability problems using creative methods.

• Good understanding of software engineering principles and best practices. Good judgement on when to hack and when to craft.

• Open to work with senior engineers across the Asia time zone, including periodic evening meetings, and excited to work on-site with our teammates in our office.

You should NOT join if:

• You prefer working in a well defined scope where your work is assigned to you instead of you defining your work.

• You prefer focusing on coding and not worrying about product, design and customers.

• You don't want to de-value your precious coding skills and think vibe coding will never work.

• You are happy with the pre-AI engineering principles you learned and don't think they will change in the AI era.

• You think scrappiness is all you need and production is the same as prototyping.

Preferred:

• Experience with building AI agents (with dynamic planning capability).

• Previously built product as individual developer as your side projects.

Location (On-site):

• Palo Alto, CA

EEO

OpusClip is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. OpusClip considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Opus Clip is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures.