Kino is an AI media manager and video editor for humans and agents. Backed by Y Combinator.
About the role
Kino rapidly ingests and indexes users’ footage so that they can search, preview and compile standout moments with a Cursor-like UI and chat-powered workflow. Our unique architecture allows us to integrate with legacy apps like Adobe Premiere and serve the best AI models available.
What they're looking for
- 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
- You are fast - you maintain a high quality at a top speed. You communicate when things will be done and stick to those deadlines. If there's a slowdown or failed experiment, you'll let us know immediately
More about this role
Kino AI is building Cursor for video editing. We serve both top studios and YouTubers, and we make editing more productive and enjoyable.
We're a deeply technical team from MIT, SpaceX, and NASA. We're backed by Y Combinator, AI Grant, and many others.
Kino is about to launch a consumer product that’s already in use at major Hollywood studios. We need more engineers, deeper integration within current firms, and added capabilities. We’re very excited about this next phase!
Kino rapidly ingests and indexes users’ footage so that they can search, preview and compile standout moments with a Cursor-like UI and chat-powered workflow. Our unique architecture allows us to integrate with legacy apps like Adobe Premiere and serve the best AI models available.
- 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...
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