Role overview
Join a Y Combinator-backed generative AI startup in Berlin as a Founding AI Engineer. The company is building an AI-powered motion design platform that enables designers and marketers to produce professional-quality animations in a fraction of the traditional time. This is an early-stage, high-impact role where you will shape the core AI systems from the ground up alongside a small, collaborative founding team.
Responsibilities
- Build and optimize AI systems to generate high-quality, style-consistent animations
- Develop comprehensive evaluation frameworks to quantify animation quality and user-perceived motion fidelity
- Partner with motion designers and marketers to translate professional design knowledge into AI training data
- Design and implement fine-tuning pipelines for generative AI models
- Create feedback loops between user preferences and model performance
- Research and prototype state-of-the-art approaches for controllable motion graphics generation
- Strong experience with TypeScript, React.js, and Next.js for frontend and interactive tooling (dealbreaker)
- Experience with PostgreSQL and cloud platforms (GCP and/or AWS)
- 1+ years of engineering experience
- Hands-on LLM experience — building with, fine-tuning, or deploying large language models
Preferred qualifications
- Experience developing and deploying generative AI models for motion graphics or related visual content
- Proficiency designing, implementing, and evaluating fine-tuning pipelines for AI models
- Ability to design and curate training data from domain-expert inputs
- Experience building evaluation frameworks for animation quality
- Strong cross-functional communication skills with designers and marketers
- Willingness to work on-site in Berlin or ability to relocate
- Salary: €80,000 – €160,000 per year (depending on experience)
- Employment type: Full-time, on-site in Berlin
- Visa sponsorship: Not available
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