Kino Ai

Job Summary:
Kino AI is building Cursor for video editing, serving both top studios and YouTubers to enhance the editing experience. They are seeking a Founding Engineer to engage in full stack web development, improve AI inference pipelines, and enhance user editing capabilities within their innovative product.
Responsibilities:
• Performant full stack web development in React, rendering large amounts of data
• Development of asynchronous AI inference pipelines that improves Kino’s understanding of user footage
• Systematic improvements to the Kino Agent, which edits footage on the user’s behalf via the Chat panel
• Improvement Kino’s agency over the user’s editing software (Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere, Davinci Resolve, etc.)
• Work in Postgres with real-time sync
Qualifications:
Required:
• 3+ years of engineering experience
• You have strong experience in React and web development, such that typical performance issues rarely appear
• Excellent understanding of web infrastructure (CORS, HTTPS, CDNs, etc)
• You have good intuition of what our unique customers actually care about (search quality, video playback, edit quality, snappiness)
• Experience in video, graphics, and GPU intensive workloads is a massive plus
Company:
Kino AI builds software tools that automatically infer metadata and organize footage, making video post-production faster. Founded in 2022, the company is headquartered in Boston, USA, with a team of 2-10 employees. The company is currently Early Stage.