Teams at Cantina Labs

The Financial Analyst will manage accounts payable from invoice intake through payment, including expense coding, payment cycles, AP aging, vendor schedules, reconciliations, accruals, and financial reporting. The role will investigate discrepancies, support month-end close, improve cross-functional purchasing processes, and automate finance workflows. Over time, the analyst will contribute to cash forecasting, budgeting, financial analysis, and finance systems projects.

Own the architecture, roadmap, and production operation of search and recommendation systems across discovery surfaces. Lead retrieval, ranking, personalization, relevance measurement, experimentation, OpenSearch infrastructure, signal pipelines, and candidate generation. Partner with Product, Data, ML, and Trust & Safety to balance relevance, freshness, safety, latency, and cold-start behavior. Establish engineering standards, instrumentation, rollout processes, and runbooks while mentoring backend engineers.

Conduct research on next-generation video generation models, focusing on distillation, inference efficiency, reward modeling, preference optimization, evaluation, and scalable training infrastructure. Interns will formulate hypotheses, run large-scale experiments, analyze results, develop research tooling, and communicate findings through reports, presentations, demonstrations, and potential conference submissions under senior mentorship.