# Founding AI Engineer at Hera

- Company: Hera (YC S25)
- What the company does: AI Motion Designer. Backed by Accel.
- Company website: https://hera.video/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Berlin, BE, DE / Berlin, Berlin, DE / San Francisco, CA, US / New York, NY, US / TW / Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $80K to $130K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2025-10-18
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/hera-video/jobs/itTRHs0-founding-ai-engineer
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/hera-founding-ai-engineer/

## About the role

You're hungry. Not just ambitious, but obsessed with building something massive You're entrepreneurial. You've built things before and demand ownership

## What they're looking for

- Build and optimize AI systems to generate high-quality animations that follow core motion design principles (easing, non-linear movement, visual hierarchy)
- Develop comprehensive evaluation frameworks to assess animation quality, combining automated metrics with expert validation from motion designers
- Partner with motion designers and marketers to translate professional design knowledge into AI training data and evaluation criteria
- Design and implement fine-tuning pipelines that teach Hera domain-specific animation styles and brand guidelines
- Create feedback loops between user preferences, expert input, and model performance to continuously improve animation quality
- Research and prototype state-of-the-art approaches for controllable, style-consistent motion graphics generation

Tags: Engineering