Wizard is the first AI-native shopping agent delivering the smartest and fastest shopping experience, from conversational search to universal checkout. Backed by Accel and NEA.
About the role
You'll work with Sam Mills, our Founding Video Engine Lead, in our native C++ codebase. You'll separate the runtime from the UI, build the CLI that renders and edits projects with no interface at all, and design the hosted render and edit API that WizReview and future apps call. You'll work closely with our media pipeline, color, audio, and AI leads. Pull the core runtime out of the app: project state, commands, history, playback, and rendering. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Systems languages: production C++ (and comfort in Rust or similar), shipped in performance-sensitive native software
- GPU pipelines: you've built or optimized rendering, compute, or media processing on the GPU
- API design: you've designed interfaces other teams and outside developers depended on
- Deep software fundamentals: memory management, concurrency, data structures, and system design. You can defend the engineering decisions you make
- AI-assisted engineering: deep experience using AI coding tools to build and ship software
More about this role
Wizard is the AI-native platform for creative work, starting with professional video: a native C++ editor and headless media runtime that humans, agents, and developers all operate.
Turn Wizard into an engine: a CLI and hosted API that every Wizard product builds on.
Wizard Headless is the engine under everything we're building next: WizReview, a modular front end people can extend, plugins that can't break what's underneath, custom pipelines for studios like ILM and Disney, new apps on a hosted runtime, and WizBox on set. Today the core still lives inside the editor app. You'll help pull it out and give it a clean, stable API that people and models can build on.
You'll work with Sam Mills, our Founding Video Engine Lead, in our native C++ codebase. You'll separate the runtime from the UI, build the CLI that renders and edits projects with no interface at all, and design the hosted render and edit API that WizReview and future apps call. You'll work closely with our media pipeline, color, audio, and AI leads.
Pull the core runtime out of the app: project state, commands, history, playback, and rendering.
Ship a CLI that opens a .wiz project and renders it end to end with no...
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