About the role
Founding Engineer / Founding ML Engineer
Koyal is building the AI filmmaking platform for the next generation of filmmakers: turning scripts into cinematic video with consistent characters, worlds, and stories.
We’re looking for a cracked founding engineer who wants to build at the edge of AI, creativity, and media.
You’ll work across the stack: agentic systems, video generation pipelines, model orchestration, product infrastructure, and the core creative tools filmmakers use every day. You should be highly technical, product-minded, fast, and comfortable owning ambiguous problems from idea to production.
You might be a great fit if you:
- Are deeply familiar with agentic coding tools and know how to orchestrate multiple agents, models, and workflows effectively.
- Are creative and excited about building applications, not just infrastructure or models in isolation.
- Have 3+ years of engineering experience, or strong graduate-level experience.
- Have experience with diffusion models, generative video, computer vision, or ML systems
- Move quickly, have strong taste, and want meaningful ownership at an early-stage company.
- Speak our language when it comes to movies, music, storytelling, or internet culture. Huge plus, but we’re always excited to learn.
Koyal was founded by Gauri Agarwal and Mehul Agarwal, engineers and builders from Meta, CMU, and MIT. We’ve worked with creators, studios, and media companies to produce everything from music videos to long-form films.
This is a high-ownership founding role with the opportunity to shape the product, technical direction, and company from the ground up.
About Koyal
Agentic AI Filmmaking Platform
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Job details
Salary
$150,000 - $250,000
Equity
1% - 3%
Location
San Francisco, CA
Experience
0+ years
Funding
Total raised
$500K
Last stage
Seed
Investors
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.
