Applied AI Engineer, Video Agent

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About HeyGen At HeyGen, our mission is to make visual storytelling accessible to all. Over the last decade, visual content has become the preferred method of information creation, consumption, and retention. But the ability to create such content, in particular videos, continues to be costly and challenging to scale. Our ambition is to build technology that equips more people with the power to reach, captivate, and inspire audiences. Learn more at www.heygen.com. Visit our Mission and Culture doc here. About the Video Agent team Video Agent turns a prompt, a document, or a handful of assets into a finished video. Behind a simple chat box sits a multi-step AI agent. It plans a storyboard, writes the script, chooses avatars, voices, and visuals, calls many tools along the way, and hands the result to our rendering pipeline. Customers use it every day to make training videos, product explainers, marketing content, and more. We are a small team that owns the agent end to end. That covers the prompts and tools the agent uses, the backend services that run it, and the product screens where people chat with it and edit what it makes. This is not a role where you only call someone else’s…