Embedding VC

Early-stage venture fund for Generative AI

Senior/Staff Frontend Engineer

Frontend EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeRemote

About the Job

Requirements

At least 3 years of experience.
Experience owning and leading technical initiatives on high-performance web applications.
Strong expertise with modern front-end tooling, including React, TypeScript, build systems, and continuous integration and continuous delivery.
Deep experience optimizing complex user experience interactions, especially in editors, canvases, visual builders, or multimedia tools.
Ability to design scalable user interface architectures and manage large, dynamic client-side state.
Ability to thrive in fast-moving environments, take ownership, and solve ambiguous problems at scale.

Responsibilities

Lead the architecture and development of the editor user interface from the ground up, including the canvas, timeline, node graph, and playback.
Rapidly prototype and iterate on new creative workflows to validate ideas and user experience.
Establish best practices for code quality, performance, testing, and maintainability.
Collaborate closely with design, product, and artificial intelligence backend teams to shape the end-to-end user experience.
Drive key technical and product decisions as part of the founding engineering team.

Desired Qualifications

Experience with video editors, creative canvases, animation or keyframe systems, design tools, node-graph editors, or similar tools.
Love of films and art.
Open-source contributions and personal coding projects outside regular work.

About Flick

Flick is defining the future interface for AI-native filmmaking. Think Figma and Cursor, but for creating AI films. Founded by Ray Wang (engineer who built Instagram Stories) and Zoey Zhang (award-winning filmmaker). Well-funded by top VCs including Y Combinator, Google Ventures, True Ventures, and Lightspeed.

The Role

Founding front-end engineer. Lead the development of the core experience of Flick — the canvas, timeline, and creative tooling. Work directly with founders and shape the future interface for AI visual storytelling.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and development of editor UI from the ground up (canvas, timeline, node graph, playback)

• Rapidly prototype and iterate on new creative workflows to validate ideas and user experience

• Establish best practices for code quality, performance, testing, and maintainability

• Collaborate closely with design, product, and AI backend teams to shape end-to-end user experience

• Drive key technical and product decisions as part of the founding engineering team

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience

• Experience owning and leading technical initiatives on high-performance web applications

• Strong expertise with modern front-end tooling (React, TypeScript, build systems, CI/CD)

• Deep experience optimizing complex UX interactions, especially in editors, canvases, visual builders, or multimedia tools

• Ability to design scalable UI architectures and manage large, dynamic client-side state

• Passion for creating fast, intuitive, and beautiful creative interfaces

• Startup mindset: thrive in fast-moving environments, take ownership, solve ambiguous problems at scale

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

• Experience with video editors, creative canvas, animation/keyframe systems, design tools, node-graph editors, or similar

• Love films and art

• Open-source contributions and personal coding projects outside regular work

Compensation

• $100,000 – $200,000 / year + 0.10% – 1.00% equity

• Visa sponsorship available

About the Company

Embedding VC

Early-stage venture fund for Generative AI

Embedding VC is an early-stage venture fund that backs Generative AI startups. It provides seed to early-stage capital and operational guidance, leveraging a team of current and former builders and operators who can help portfolio companies grow. The fund’s approach centers on working closely with founders and using hands-on experience to scale AI projects, including those aiming toward AGI, during a period described as a new computing super cycle driven by AI innovations. Unlike funds that rely mainly on financial leverage, Embedding VC differentiates itself through its deep operator network, practical support, and focus on and commitment to building capable, scalable AI businesses. The overall goal is to support ambitious AI founders to advance the development and deployment of AI technologies and capture value in the expanding AI ecosystem.

Company size: 11-50
Company stage: Not listed
Total funding: Not listed
Headquarters: Menlo Park, CA
Founded: 2023

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