
Job Description
Founding Engineer / Founding ML Engineer
Koyal is building the AI filmmaking platform for the next generation of filmmakers: turning scripts into cinematic video with consistent characters, worlds, and stories.
We’re looking for a cracked founding engineer who wants to build at the edge of AI, creativity, and media.
You’ll work across the stack: agentic systems, video generation pipelines, model orchestration, product infrastructure, and the core creative tools filmmakers use every day. You should be highly technical, product-minded, fast, and comfortable owning ambiguous problems from idea to production.
You might be a great fit if you:
- Are deeply familiar with agentic coding tools and know how to orchestrate multiple agents, models, and workflows effectively.
- Are creative and excited about building applications, not just infrastructure or models in isolation.
- Have 3+ years of engineering experience, or strong graduate-level experience.
- Have experience with diffusion models, generative video, computer vision, or ML systems
- Move quickly, have strong taste, and want meaningful ownership at an early-stage company.
- Speak our language when it comes to movies, music, storytelling, or internet culture. Huge plus, but we’re always excited to learn.
Koyal was founded by Gauri Agarwal and Mehul Agarwal, engineers and builders from Meta, CMU, and MIT. We’ve worked with creators, studios, and media companies to produce everything from music videos to long-form films.
This is a high-ownership founding role with the opportunity to shape the product, technical direction, and company from the ground up.
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Job Details
- Category
- Software
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
- Posted
- Compensation
- $150,000 - $250,000 per year
About Koyal
Koyal is an Agentic AI Filmmaking Platform that allows you to seamlessly convert script or audio into personalized, visually compelling stories. We’re a team from Carnegie Mellon, MIT and Meta, with experience in AI video generation. https://koyal.ai builds directly upon our published research at the AI conference NeurIPS in December. We’ve been covered in the international press for our patented secure personalization protocol CHARCHA: the genAI captcha. Announcement: https://x.com/meh_agarwal/status/1965866965425348687 Demo: https://x.com/meh_agarwal/status/1965137062119752099 We currently have paid pilots with the biggest global music labels, podcasts and production houses, and just launched our public beta at beta.koyal.ai We recently concluded a pilot with Universal Music and T-Series (world’s largest music label) alongside Bollywood production houses like Maddock Entertainment, and Collective Artists Network! As part of that, we launched 5 music videos for Grammy and Oscar winning artists like A R Rahman, Ricky Kej and Shankar Mahadevan all crossing 1.5 million views! We've recently built SOTA capabilities in (i) multilingual script to audio to video, (ii) Agentic lip-sync with dynamic movement & (iii) Multi-character consistency.
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