# Research Engineer at Hedra

- Company: Hedra
- What the company does: Hedra builds models that generate, perceive, and predict the visual world — and the platform that runs them in production. Backed by a16z and a16z speedrun.
- Company website: https://www.hedra.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $175K to $275K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-04-15
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hedra/b99b5901-84ff-4d39-a50f-77ef9767ddd3
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/hedra-research-engineer/

## About the role

Hedra is a pioneering generative modeling company — first models to market — now building a Physical AI team to bring these models to real-world industry and economy use cases. As a Research Engineer on our Physical AI team, you will lead pre-training and post-training on action-conditioned world models, working hand-in-hand with industrial partners to close the loop between generative AI and physical systems.

## What they're looking for

- Experience with pre-training or post-training on large generative models (video, multimodal, or action-conditioned)
- Hands-on proficiency with PyTorch and distributed training frameworks (FSDP, DeepSpeed)
- Strong fundamentals in machine learning, optimization, and large-scale data processing
- Familiarity with VLMs, VLAs, or world models
- Background in robotics, embodied AI, or sim-to-real transfer is a plus
- Experience with video understanding or temporal reasoning is a plus

Tags: Research