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About the Role

Every install we buy starts as a creative some‑one (or something) made. We’re rebuilding that pipeline so that an agent can generate thousands of images and videos a day across Meta, Google, TikTok, Pinterest, Reddit, and Snap; watch CPI and ROAS come back; and get sharper each cycle.

We’re hiring the engineer who owns this agent end‑to‑end.

• CPI‑feedback creative critic loop — Extend our LLM critic + performance‑feedback regeneration from images‑only to images + video + copy, all closed‑loop, all running unsupervised at thousands of variants per day.
• Video pipeline — Build from a topic + product brief to a platform‑ready 9:16 vertical ad — script, scene plan, b‑roll, voiceover (ElevenLabs / Hedra), captions — in under 90 seconds per iteration, under $0.50 per iteration.
• Generative model router — Pick the right model per brief (Flux Schnell vs Pro, Veo 3, Sora, Runway Gen‑3/4, Kling, Hailuo), minimizing $/asset under a quality floor. Prove your routing strategy in production via A/B.
• Policy pre‑flight checker — Build a VLM (GPT‑4o vision / Gemini / Claude vision) that vets every frame and caption against current Meta / Google / TikTok ad policy before upload. Block 100% of would‑be‑rejected creatives at the source.
• Brand‑style LoRA / DreamBooth checkpoint — Train and ship on past CPI‑winning ads. Deploy serverless on fal / Replicate. A/B against base Flux on real spend.
• Event‑triggered ad pipeline (video) — Earthquake hits at 14:02 → by 14:12 you have 50 paused video variants in Meta and TikTok, each with platform‑specific aspect ratios and locale‑specific voiceover.

• You understand diffusion and video models viscerally — you’ve debugged them, trained a LoRA, optimized inference, built a ComfyUI workflow you’d defend in public.
• You can name your daily model stack — Flux vs SDXL vs Veo vs Sora vs Runway vs Kling vs Hailuo — and explain when each wins, where each breaks, and what you’d reach for at $0.01/asset vs $0.50/asset.
• You have public artifacts — a fal demo, a Replicate model, a Civitai upload with >100 downloads, a viral X thread of your generations, a ComfyUI workflow on GitHub. Portfolio matters more than resume.
• You have scroll‑stopping instinct — you know what makes someone not swipe past an ad in the first 3 seconds.
• You think about cost as a first‑class design constraint — $/asset, $/click, $/install. Cost arbitrage between model tiers is something you’ve actually shipped.
• You’ve read Meta Advertising Standards / TikTok branded‑content rules end‑to‑end — policy is a pre‑deploy gate, not a post‑mortem.
• You’re a builder — Idea → working pipeline → first 100 ads shipped → CPI data back → tighter loop. Not “I’ll spec it for Q3.”

• Pretrained or significantly advanced a VLM (not just SFT’d or LoRA’d one).
• Open‑sourced a ComfyUI custom node, a diffusers extension, or a Replicate model with real traction.
• Deployed serverless inference on fal / Replicate / Modal at scale (>10 k req/day).
• Shipped a video product end‑to‑end: script → scene plan → b‑roll → voiceover → captions → final cut.
• Authored a public take on generative video model failure modes that other engineers cite.

• You’ve only ever prompted hosted models — you’ve never trained a LoRA, written a ComfyUI workflow, or deployed a custom checkpoint.
• Your creative experience stops at Photoshop or Canva templates. You can’t tell us why a Flux generation has bad hands or why Veo 3 over‑saturates skin.
• You think “AI creative” means asking GPT to write ad copy.
• You’re an academic researcher chasing first‑author papers. We ship.
• You’re a brand‑side creative director without engineering depth. We need someone who debugged a CUDA OOM at 2 am because the generator was holding up the next batch.

Take‑home: build a small agentic creative pipeline end‑to‑end — your call: image‑only or short video, hosted or self‑served, model of your choice. Walk us through what you built and every model / cost / quality decision behind it. Conversations with the team follow. Portfolio matters more than resume — if you can’t show a public artifact, please come back when you can.

• Competitive Bay Area comp + meaningful equity.
• Unlimited generative model budget — fal, Veo, Sora, Runway, ElevenLabs, OpenAI image, Anthropic vision, Hedra, Kling. We expect you to burn through it.

You’ll join the team building NewsBreak’s agentic growth platform. We already ship a CPI‑feedback creative critic loop, event‑driven creative pipelines, and multi‑platform ad‑upload tooling for Meta, Google, and TikTok. Your job: take the creative side from “thousands of images per day” to “video too, smarter every cycle, cheaper every month.”

If you read this and thought “finally, a JD that’s written for me” — we want to talk.

• Health, dental, and vision care for you and your family (100% coverage for employee)
• Top‑tier 401(K) plan with company matching
• Paid time off and paid holidays
• FSA, HSA and commuter benefits programs
• Team activity budget

$120,000 — $220,000 USD

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