Product Engineer at Krea (San Francisco, CA)
Krea· San Francisco, CA·
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ABOUT KREA
At Krea, we are building next-generation AI creative tools.
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 recently took this a step forward with the launch of Krea 2 krea.ai/krea-2-image-model, our first foundation model, built completely from scratch for aesthetic diversity and stylistic control.
We've raised over $83M and are backed by world-class investors such as a16z, Bain Capital, and Abstract. We work full-time and in-person at our waterfront office in San Francisco. We care about creativity: our team includes musicians, designers, visual artists, and engineers.
THIS ROLE
We're looking for a product engineer to help take sub-products already driving significant revenue and make them more robust, while shipping new product surfaces for our creative users. You'd work primarily in SvelteKit (React experience also fine), touching Postgres/Redis/ClickHouse, with occasional reach into Python ML inference on GPU clusters and our multi-cloud k8s setup as needed.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Build real-time collaboration and canvas tooling (e.g. WebGL2/WebGPU for our node-based tools & CRDTs)
- Ship durable execution for long-running workflows and public APIs (OpenAPI docs auto-generated from Zod schemas)
- Reach into Python ML inference on GPU clusters and our multi-cloud k8s setup as features require it
- Own cross-service metrics, tracing, and observability for the features you ship
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- 4+ years of experience, ideally with 1+ years contributing to a product with millions of users
- Real, significant Svelte or React experience - this isn't a pure-backend role
- Strong first-principles thinking and product sense over attachment to any specific framework
- Comfort owning things end-to-end, from idea to shipped, measured impact
- Clear written and verbal communication
- Taste - a strong, well-developed point of view on what good creative work looks like
Nice to have
- Python/PyTorch or GPU-backed ML inference experience
- A creative background (design, art, architecture, or similar)
OUR STACK
- SvelteKit, TypeScript, Python, Postgres (AWS Aurora), Redis, ClickHouse, Docker, Kubernetes, FluxCD
WHAT WE OFFER
- Team: Work alongside a world-class team building the future of AI creative tooling
- Impact: Significant scope and company-wide impact
- Competitive compensation: generous salary & equity packages
- Health & wellness: 100% health & 99% dental/vision insurance premiums covered for employees, health FSA accounts, & long-term disability coverage
- Time off: Flexible PTO policy
- Financial planning: 401k with a 4% company-sponsored match
- Meals in the office: breakfast, lunch, dinner - you name it, we'll cover it
- Transit: Ubers covered to & from the office
- Sponsorship: We're open to sponsoring international visas where we can (e.g., STEM OPT, OPT, H-1B, O-1, E-3).
- And more!
Please note the above benefits & perks are for full-time employees
Why work at Krea
- Culture: Small, highly talented team (currently 17) that lives and breathes creativity – founders and many team members are musicians, poets, designers, videographers; “The team behind Krea is the work of a small, talented group of imaginative, incredibly dedicated people.”
- Engineering & research: Engineers from MIT, Princeton, UC Berkeley, University of Chicago; authors of state‑of‑the‑art models (Lumina, Anifusion). Freedom to do own research after building products for the community.
- Work environment: New office with Pacific Ocean views in San Francisco; majority of team shares a living space (noted early‑stage).
- Velocity: Weekly Thursday releases, exposure to cutting‑edge AI models, direct impact on a product used by millions.
- Open roles: Listed at jobs.ashbyhq.com/krea. Ideal candidate is “deeply technical, artistically opinionated.”