We're looking for a founding research engineer to build the creative intelligence layer behind Ponder with us.

Ponder is building the world's most intelligent agent for creative work.

This entails:

• Designing and shipping agentic systems that reason over large amounts of videos (audio, visuals, timeline state)
• Building self-improving agents that learn from usage, feedback, and structured evaluation
• Developing retrieval, memory, and multimodal perception systems
• Creating benchmarking pipelines that measure narrative quality, coherence, and creative judgment
• Improving tool reliability, long-horizon planning, and latency in production

You've:

• Shipped complex agentic systems in production
• Built with multimodal models (text, vision, video, audio)
• Worked deeply with embeddings, retrieval systems, and structured planning
• Designed evaluation loops that drive measurable improvement over time
• Ideally trained or fine-tuned models (SFT, preference tuning, RL, or similar methods)

You should be great at:

• Turning ambiguous creative problems into measurable systems
• Balancing research depth with product velocity