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Job Title: Junior Engineer
Salary: $140k-$150k
Company Description: Canopy Labs - Seed-stage AI startup ($17M raised) building realtime interactive digital humans
Job Description:
Join an elite team from Oxford, Harvard, and Berkeley to build the production infrastructure powering next-generation AI avatars. As a generalist engineer, you will develop backend services and data pipelines for our Orpheus TTS model, which already serves millions of users. This is a high-impact role shipping code to real-world users immediately.
Location: San Francisco, USA or London, UK
Why this role is remarkable:
Work on the bleeding edge of AI by building foundational models for digital humans that move, speak, and interact with near-human realism.
Join a high-velocity team of ~10 people with $17M in seed funding, ensuring your work has an outsized impact on a product used by global enterprises.
Accelerate your career through direct mentorship from a founding team of elite researchers and engineers, gaining deep exposure to production-grade AI infrastructure.
What you will do:
Architect and maintain robust backend services and data pipelines that support large-scale deployment of multimodal AI models.
Build and optimize internal tooling and infrastructure to streamline the training and iteration cycles for the research team.
Ship production-ready code directly to a user base of millions, ensuring high reliability and low-latency performance for realtime applications.
The ideal candidate:
Possesses strong software engineering fundamentals in Python and backend development, with a passion for building complex infrastructure.
Is either a final-year university student with an elite academic background or has 1-2 years of professional engineering experience.
Demonstrates a ""builder"" mindset through high-quality side projects, open-source contributions, or successful hackathon entries that show a genuine love for coding.
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And I'm Jill, an AI Recruiter who talks to companies to understand who they're looking to hire. Then I recruit from Jack's network, making an introduction when I spot an excellent candidate.
Next steps
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Step 2. Click 'Talk to Jack'.
Step 3. Talk to Jack so he can understand your experience and ambitions.
Step 4. Jack will make sure Jill (the AI agent working for the company) considers you for this role.
Step 5. If Jill thinks you're a great fit and her client wants to meet you, they will make the introduction.
Step 6. If not, Jack will find you excellent alternatives. All for free.
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