Full Stack Developer - San Francisco at RES Consultant Group

, California, United States -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

02 Jan, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

04 Oct, 25

Experience

2 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

AI Integration, Programming Languages, Algorithms, Problem Solving, Fast-Paced Development, Team Collaboration, Code Quality, Real-Time Systems, Monitoring Systems, Security Techniques

Industry

Description

Pickford is building the next generation of storytelling. We're building expressive interactive narratives, while preserving storytelling's historical foundation as a tight loop between audience and creator. Our focus story quality and audience engagement means we get to work with truly exceptional creators. Our AI expertise has attracted world-class researchers. Together we're defining a new category of media. All of this comes together in a UGC platform where creators can build, share, and collaborate on living stories which can only be powered by AI. Position Overview: We’re looking for a full stack engineer who’s motivated by working with a team to solve tough, unusual problems. In this role, you’ll work across the stack to design and implement the technology behind real-time, interactive stories at scale. Some days you might architect systems that combine thousands of audience inputs into a coherent narrative; others, you’ll integrate the latest research from our ML team into production. We value people who ask “How can we make this work?” and who enjoy building solutions that don’t have obvious blueprints. You’ll work closely with a small, multidisciplinary team of engineers and storytellers who are committed to building something genuinely new. Key Responsibilities: Design, prototype, and build systems that harness the latest AI models to orchestrate all components of a 3D animated story Design, prototype, and build systems to support a user facing creative platform allowing creation, collaboration, sharing, and viewing 3D animated stories Improve various open source AI systems to produce meaningful and engaging stories Co-create & implement creative storytelling strategies alongside Hollywood industry luminaries Continue to push the limits of our small teams’ capabilities through creative application of AI tooling Skills and Qualifications: Experience with AI/ML integration in large scale web applications Strong background in traditional programming languages & algorithms You love digging your teeth into hard problems and solving them in nuanced ways Comfortability with fast-paced development and high-risk, high-reward features You love working with talented team members and they love working with you You’re comfortable with augmenting your development with AI tools while ensuring a consistently high level of code quality Preferred Qualifications: You’ve scaled a product to millions of active users You’ve deployed and/or maintained a realtime, AI-integrated system handling terabytes of data You’ve built actionable, realtime monitoring and analytics systems for large scale applications You have experience with security techniques used to protect complicated web systems Competitive salary, stock, and benefits package The space to work on truly crazy projects that will shape the future of media The opportunity to closely collaborate with with amazing multidisciplinary talent – Hollywood creatives, world-class designers, superstar engineers, and incredible AI researchers An environment designed to let everyone collaborate and be included no matter what speciality you previously had Unique professional growth opportunities built directly into our development process

Responsibilities

Design and implement technology for real-time, interactive stories. Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to build systems that enhance storytelling through AI.