AI Editing
Senior AI Product Engineer (SF)
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Role overview
Kapwing is building the next generation prompt-to-edit platform for video creators. Kapwing AI launched in Fall 2025, and leverages the best LLMs and generative models to empower users to ideate, edit, and generate images, videos, and audio. Kapwing turns video editing, traditionally a heavyweight, time consuming workflow, into a joyful, collaborative experience. We believe that we can use technology to augment the video editing and content creation experience, and we've already started on this path with a wide array of templates, plugins, and new pipelines for combining tooling with the best AI models.
What you'll do
- Define, build, and launch full-stack features (React, Node, and Python) for one of the world's most popular cloud-based video editors.
- Design, test, and implement LLM powered pipelines to automate away tedious parts of visual design and video editing.
- Prototype and test new technologies and generative models to evaluate quality, revise prompts, and improve performance.
- Test new features, monitor releases, and mitigate risk.
- Investigate and prototype new technologies and build applications on top of ML-powered APIs
- Implement new features and improvements to Kapwing’s Studio and other core products. Partner with product and growth to reach new creators and sell to creative enterprises.
What the employer is looking for
- 5+ years of production-level software engineering experience in a modern web stack
- 2+ years of experience building on top of LLMs; Familiarity modifying files with LLM tool calling
- Comfortable with React, Redux, Typescript, Node, automated testing (i.e. Cypress, Jest) and tRPC APIs
- Experience prototyping and building new products from scratch. Can evaluate, configure, and incorporate new web technology
- Scrappy: Define and quickly execute on MVPs to test product hypotheses. Descopes problems to avoid getting lost in the weeds.
- Entrepreneurial: Excited about joining a small team and contributing across all areas of the company
- No ego: There’s a lot we wish we could do but don’t have time for. Must have the ability to put the product’s needs first.
- [Preferred] Interest in or experience with video engineering (processing, uploads, FFMPEG, visual recognition, etc)
- Work authorization in the USA for 4+ years without sponsorship