Hedra hires infra and agent roles

Hedra closed a $32 million Series A in May 2025 led by Andreessen Horowitz’s Infrastructure fund, with existing backers participating and Andreessen partner Matt Bornstein joining the board. (techcrunch.com/2025/05/15/hedra-the-app-used-to-make-talking-baby-podcasts-raises-32m-from-a16z/) Company statements about the round and subsequent coverage say the capital will be used to scale Hedra Studio and deepen development and training of its Character-3 foundation model. (unite.ai/hedra-raises-32m-to-power-the-future-of-generative-video-with-lifelike-digital-characters/) The newly posted Agentic Engineer role explicitly calls for building “production-grade agent infrastructure,” implementing tool-calling and multi-agent orchestration, and working with frameworks named PydanticAI, AG-UI, and A2A. (jobs.ashbyhq.com/hedra/8809200c-25c5-4904-b54b-0d4173262292) Senior/Staff Infrastructure listings require ownership of reliability and operability for Python web services deployed on AWS, with hands-on responsibilities for deployment strategies and observability. (builtin.com/company/hedra/jobs) (outscal.com/job/seniorstaff-infrastructure-engineer-at-hedra-in-sun-new-york-usa) Multiple backend/infra openings list New York and San Francisco locations and advertised seniority bands (Senior/Staff), with public job-aggregator listings showing backend compensation bands in the $175k–$275k range for some roles. (ziprecruiter.com/c/Hedra/Job/Senior-Staff-Backend-Engineer/-in-New-York%2CNY?jid=2dfe630ef27eb3c9) (theladder s.com/job/backend-engineer-hedra-new-york-ny_78384138) Press coverage and the company’s own hiring pages situate these hires alongside product descriptions of Character-3 as an “omnimodal” video foundation model in production, tying the fundraise and role descriptions to explicit product-scale model development and platform operations. (speedrun.a16z.com/companies/hedra) (techinasia.com/news/a16z-leads-32m-series-a-for-character-based-ai-startup-hedra)