ML Engineer – Data Engineering

About Krea

At Krea, we're dedicated to making AI intuitive and controllable for creatives. Our mission is to build tools that empower human creativity, not replace it. We believe AI is a new medium that allows us to express ourselves through various formats—text, images, video, sound, and even 3D. We're building better, smarter, and more controllable tools to harness this medium.

We’re backed by Bain Capital Ventures, A16Z, Abstract Ventures, Pebblebed and many others. If you're passionate about pushing the boundaries of AI and empowering human creativity, we'd love to hear from you.

We are seeking a Machine Learning Engineer with a focus on Data Engineering to manage and optimize our extensive datasets, comprising hundreds of millions of images and videos. This role is crucial in ensuring efficient data access, storage, and versioning to support our research and development teams.​ Your contributions will directly enhance the efficiency of our data handling processes, supporting cutting-edge research and development efforts.​

What you'll do:

• Implement and maintain distributed storage solutions to provide seamless data access across all training machines.​

• Develop strategies to reduce data storage costs while ensuring high availability and reliability.​

• Optimize input/output operations to accelerate data retrieval and processing during training and inference phases.​

• Build and manage backend systems to track and manage different versions of datasets, ensuring reproducibility and consistency in experiments.​

Our culture:

• We work full-time and in-person at our waterfront office in San Francisco.

• We believe that demonstrated interest in the creative space is key: our team includes musicians, designers, visual artists and more.

Example tacit skills we're looking for:

• Experience with distributed storage systems including deployment, configuration, and optimization.​

• Strong skills in Python and (ideally) C++ for developing data processing pipelines and integrating storage solutions.​

• Experience in building and maintaining data pipelines capable of handling large-scale datasets efficiently.​

• Experience with K8s.

• Generalist back-end experience with familiarity in ETL and infrastructure.

What we offer:

• Openness to sponsoring International candidates (e.g STEM OPT, OPT, H1B, O1, E3)

• Work alongside a world class developing the future of AI tooling

• Significant impact on Krea’s market presence and growth

• Competitive compensation (75% percentile of market rates) with significant equity upside