Who we are
Lightricks, an AI-first company, is revolutionizing how visual content is created. With a mission to bridge the gap between imagination and creation, Lightricks is dedicated to bringing cutting-edge technology to the creative and business spaces.
Our AI photo and video generation models, which power our apps and platforms including Facetune, Photoleap, Videoleap, and LTX Studio, allow creators and brands to leverage the latest research breakthroughs, offering endless control over their creative potential. Our influencer marketing platform, Popular Pays, provides creators the ability to monetize their work and offers brands opportunities to scale their content through tailored creator partnerships.
Our brilliant R&D team, which includes leading researchers, takes our products to the next level.
Our areas of expertise include computer vision, machine learning, rendering, deep learning, and computational photography. Visit our tech blog at https://medium.com/@lightricks-tech-blog to learn about our team's efforts and continued leadership in the industry.
Within the Photo/Video mobile app group, our development encompasses a diverse tech stack and robust professional collaborations, presenting our developers with varied challenges. This ensures continuous opportunities for deepening expertise and dynamic personal growth. Our hands-on activities include:
- Work on app’s code, including UI development and infrastructure in native iOS languages (Swift or Objective-C), with some Python for tooling.
- Participate in software design sessions to optimally create rich user features, polished UX, and scalable architectures with complex business logic.
- Develop on-device image processing and rendering by writing GPU shaders using technologies like Metal, ensuring fast responses to user input for optimal interaction.
- Collaborate with our research team to integrate cloud-based image processing for computationally intensive algorithms, leveraging cutting-edge AI models (e.g., diffusion neural networks and LLMs), and combine these with local on-device processing to deliver an optimal user experience.
- Optimize time and memory consumption to improve app performance on mobile devices, enhancing the capability to handle high-res images and videos.
As a developer in our group working on company’s top-performing apps Photoleap and Videoleap, you will have a direct impact on millions of monthly users around the world.
What you will be doing
- First step:
- Go through an internal bootcamp with a personal mentor to learn the basics required to start working on the app’s codebase, followed by continuous learning alongside real work.
- Ongoing:
- Significantly contribute to the everything related to the Photo and Video applications features development: work with product manager to shape the functionality and user facing design.
- Write clean, maintainable, and testable code; identify and implement software engineering best practices; participate in architectural decisions.
- Conduct code reviews.
- Eventually also mentor junior developers.
Your skills and experience
- Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals, including core concepts in algorithms, data structures, computational complexity and OS along with a solid understanding of software engineering principles.
- 3+ years of experience of demonstrated expertise in OOP, software design and API/systems architecture, including multithreaded and asynchronous systems.
- Ability to work cohesively in a team setting, with strong communication skills, and professionally advocate for decisions.
- A continuous learner, keen on staying updated with the evolving software development landscape and best practices.
- Advantages:
- Knowledge in image processing, graphics, and/or computer vision.
- Experience in testing methodologies including unit testing and integration testing.
- Experience in languages like C++, Swift, Objective C and their eco-systems.practices.
Join us if you’re excited to shape the future of visual creation for millions of users, integrating advanced AI and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in photo and video editing.
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What We Do
Lightricks is returning creative intelligence and power to the people who imagine and create by building open, efficient AI models and products that understand and generate the visual world. Our vision: push the limits of technology to reimagine the way creators express themselves. Big mission. Fast-moving team. Come build it with us. At our core is LTX- an open-source generative video model built to deliver expressive, high-fidelity video at unmatched speed. It powers our own products and a growing ecosystem of creative partners worldwide. We're one of the few companies globally building our own multimodal foundation models, competing directly with the world's largest AI labs. Startup speed. Experienced leadership. A product people already love. Backed by a proven business model and unicorn-scale resources. We were founded by four computer-science PhDs who never stopped thinking like researchers. That mindset still defines us: deep technical ambition, a bias toward building, and a belief that the best creative tools haven't been invented yet. The team has done it before. Lightricks' suite of apps, including the famous Facetune, has over 500 million downloads worldwide and has won numerous prestigious awards, including Apple's App of the Year, the Apple Design Award and both Apple and Google Play's Best of the Year. What makes us "us" - At Lightricks, innovation starts with people, not buzzwords. We move fast, speak plainly, and take real ownership. Impact here comes from passion, curiosity, and initiative, and from raising the bar for yourself and the people around you. We believe the best work happens together. The culture here is genuinely collaborative, people share knowledge, back each other up, and win as a team. When things click, everyone feels it. You'll have what you need to do your best work: unrestricted access to compute, tools, and resources. We're AI-native in practice- first access to the latest models, real infrastructure, and a team that learns together in real time. We move at the pace of AI, not just in what we ship, but in how we think and work. Priorities shift, the market moves, and we move with it. If you thrive on change, adapt quickly, and want to be part of a team that keeps up, you'll feel right at home. We build, break, iterate, repeat. What matters here is how you think, what you're curious about, and where you want to go.
Why Work With Us
Native frontier AI, built in-house, competing with the largest players. A product already in market, already winning customers, with a B2B story just getting started. AI-first and people-first in how we operate. Unrestricted access to tools and compute. People who push you and celebrate when you win. The right moment to be at the front.
