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.
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Junior Engineer at Canopy Labs
Canopy Labs is hiring a Junior Engineer in San Francisco or London to build the infrastructure for realtime AI avatars. This is a rare opportunity for a recent grad or early-career dev to have massive ownership and impact on the future of human-AI interaction while earning up to $150k.
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Location
San Francisco, United States
Compensation
$140k-$150k
Company
Canopy Labs
Role overview
Canopy Labs is developing digital humans that are indistinguishable from real ones.
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.
Who this is a fit for
- 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.
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.
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