About the role
We are looking for a Founding Engineer with 0-5 years of experience to join a 3-person team building the first AI-native collaborative video editor. You'll help scale a product already beloved by major Hollywood studios into a consumer launch, pushing the browser to its absolute limits with professional video workloads and agentic editing workflows.
What will you be doing?
- Building and hardening a desktop-class video editor in the browser that handles 10+ hours of daily professional use without crashing
- Developing AI agents that understand video editing, brand consistency, and motion graphics
- Performance engineering to beat traditional editors like Adobe Premiere on playback, scrubbing, and responsiveness
- Training and deploying small ML models (classifiers, vision-language models) for video understanding tasks
- Talking to customers and users daily, dog-fooding the product, and shipping features end-to-end
About Kino AI
Kino is an AI media manager and video editor for humans and agents.
Required skills
Other roles at Kino AI
Job details
Salary
$140,000 - $220,000
Equity
0.75% - 3%
Location
San Francisco, United States
Experience
0+ years
Funding
Total raised
$500K
Last stage
Seed
Investors
Founders
Luke Igel
LinkedInWhat 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.