HeyGen

Applied AI Engineer, Video Agent

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6 hours ago
Toronto, Canada +3 moreMid Level
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Base Salary

$180k - $240k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and improve the Video Agent’s tools, prompts, context, planning, error recovery, and multi-turn conversation behavior.
  • Build evaluations and offline replays, run feature-flagged experiments, and analyze user sessions and agent traces.
  • Develop user-facing features in TypeScript and React.
  • Build backend services and long-running workflows in Python and Go.
  • Own features from ideation through launch and follow-up while partnering with product managers, designers, research, and rendering teams.

Requirements

  • Experience building and shipping an AI agent where a model calls tools, plans across multiple steps, and acts on results.
  • Experience building evaluations or test sets for model behavior and distinguishing genuine improvements from noise.
  • At least 2 years of professional experience as a strong full-stack engineer.
  • Fluency in TypeScript and React on the frontend and Python on the backend.
  • Strong product sense, customer focus, and ownership.
  • A computer science or related degree is welcome but not required; equivalent experience counts.
  • Nice to have: experience fine-tuning models, working on code-to-video models, or working on video agent models.

Benefits

  • $180,000–$240,000 annually.
  • Equity in a high-growth AI company.
  • 401K match.
  • Health, dental, and vision benefits.
  • Flexible PTO.
  • Opportunity to help define a new category in AI video.
  • High ownership, high velocity, and direct impact on revenue growth.
HeyGen

About HeyGen

201-500 employees

HeyGen builds an AI video platform for businesses and creators to generate videos with avatars, text-to-speech, and translation across languages. Its web-based tools and APIs support use cases like marketing, training, and localization, offered as subscription software with add-ons for enterprise teams. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Los Angeles, the company is privately held.

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