Founding Software Engineer

Founding Engineer - AI Motion Design Platform

YC-backed · Berlin · Onsite · 80k-k + significant equity

The opportunity

We're partnered exclusively with a YC-backed startup in Berlin that's building the AI system behind professional motion graphics. Their product turns a simple text prompt into polished, broadcast-quality animated videos - the kind that used to require After Effects, a week of work, and a specialist motion designer.

They're already used by creators and video teams with hundreds of thousands of subscribers, and growing fast. The product works today. The question now is: how good can they make it?

They're looking for a founding engineer to own that answer.

The role

This is a founding engineering hire. You'd own and evolve the core agentic AI pipeline - a multi-agent system (Director Designer Animator) that orchestrates LLMs, rendering logic, and design intelligence to produce stu...