Senior Software Engineer, Facet
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The collaborative interface for AI image generation
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The collaborative interface for AI image generation
1-20 employees
Job no longer available
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1-20 employees
Company mission
To power visual storytelling at scale through creative and supportive AI.
Role
Who you are
- Experience crafting responsive, accessible and pixel-perfect user interfaces
- Experience building complex web apps with difficult state management challenges
- Strong visual sense and ability to work either from detailed mockups or rough guidelines
- Empathy for the designers, artists, and the visual creative workers who will be using our product
Desirable
- Added plus: personal or professional exposure to photography, video creators, production or post-production including VFX and editing
What the job involves
- As a product engineer, using your 5+ years of professional experience, you would be responsible for crafting and refining this unique experience
- Our product engineers work closely with designers and power users to create novel interactions that bridge the gap between supportive AI and human creativity. Using Typescript, React, and WebGL, you will build beautiful and intuitive interfaces and components that empower our users and make their jobs more delightful. Core challenges include:
- Frontend architecture: Facet is a complex web app that is constantly evolving as we forge a path into the uncharted territory of AI-assisted creative interactivity. This requires a highly flexible frontend architecture that empowers our team to explore new techniques through customization and experimentation
- State management: Every user interaction yields changes to local app state, networked state, and related state in connected systems such as the WebGL renderer or the application backend. This requires deep thought about how information is organized and transported throughout the app
- Multiplayer collaboration: The browser-based nature of Facet provides an opportunity to distribute editing sessions to any number of connected users. This necessitates the employment of techniques in our frontend such as WebSockets and conflict-free replicated data types
- This role offers the unique opportunity to navigate the challenge of uniting professional artists and ML algorithms into the same creative loop. If you’re as interested in that as we are, we hope we’ll be hearing from you
- Build core product features and workflows using frontend tech like TypeScript, React, Redux, Next.js and WebGL
- Craft polished, accessible, and delightful user experiences
- Create new user interaction workflows that empower human designers to work collaboratively with AI
- Work with design and product teams to craft a beautifully polished UI component library
Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
Facet fuels visual storytelling through the creative use of AI. The company offers an AI-powered photo-editing tool that is accessed using APIs in order to streamline the creative process.
Whilst Facet does offer a consumer-grade platform for small-scale photographers, the company most impresses with its commercial-grade image editing that prepares and presents an inordinate quantity of photos in just minutes. The platform is destined for growth given its support from impressive AI and product experts from Google Brain, Salesforce Metamind and FAIR, as well as its unique community-based model that allows creative forces to collaborate in an unparalleled fashion.
The company has the potential to flourish into an independent powerhouse and is investing its 2021 Series A funding into gaining traction and building out a go-to-market strategy.
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Nov 2021
$13m
EARLY VC
Apr 2021
$2.5m
SEED
Total funding: $15.5m
Company benefits
- Paid parental leave for primary or secondary caregivers
- Three weeks paid vacation
- Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance and OneMedical membership
- Build your own work environment: customize your laptop and desk setup with any peripheral or accessory you'd like
- Order any work-related books on the company's Amazon account
- Flexible working hours: we have daily team stand-ups, but we understand if you work better when you're not tethered to your desk
- Relocation assistance
- Yearly stipend for learning and development
- Commuter benefits including a monthly ride-sharing stipend
Company values
- Consensus goals, independent execution. We value collaboration on goal setting and technical/company direction while giving individuals latitude and ownership over how these goals are achieved
- Decathlon, not a sprint. Creative AI is a rapidly blooming space, so we need to move quickly to build product and grow our market. We all juggle multiple roles and we’re in it for the long haul. At the same time, we understand downtime is important. We don’t have an explicit vacation policy, but unlike other startups we expect you to gauge your level of stress and take one when you need it
- Sane experimentation. We're exploring new territory and building a new product category. We need to experiment and try new things while maintaining a stable foundation for our future work. Our product should make the world better, and we shouldn't break anything we’re not sure we can fix. Facet is partnering with artists and designers to develop a powerful, ethical approach to our technology, democratizing artistic expression in a safe, responsible way
- Creative + technical. Facet is about making technology a partner in the creative process. We enjoy product design, engineering, and research—but also photography, music, art, and cooking
- Diverse backgrounds. We’re solving a completely new problem and need a diverse set of viewpoints and voices to fully understand its scope and extent. We’re building a company and culture that can responsibly and respectfully integrate a plurality of voices
Company HQ
South Park, San Francisco, CA
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Founders
Joseph Reisinger
(CEO)Previously co-founded and acted as CTO for Premise Data. Served as an Advisor for Skipflag and was a PhD Fellow & Researcher in NLP/Vision for Google.
Matt Stanton
(CTO)Previously founded and acted as CEO of Kinema. Experience as Vice President of Engineering for Operator, Software Engineer for Google and madeforchina, and in Research for Adobe, Pixar Animation Studios, Princeton University, and the University of Washington.
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