We're a small team of researchers, designers, and engineers obsessed with making creative AI that respects the people using it. If that sounds like your kind of trouble — keep reading.
Every company says "fast-paced," "ownership," and "values our people." Here's the version where we tell you what those words mean inside HayfishAI.
Slow when it matters, ruthlessly fast when it doesn't. We measure ourselves on craft and clarity, not commit count or burn-down charts. Code review is a craft conversation.
We write things down. Decisions live in docs. Time zones overlap two hours a day, max. Nobody schedules over your deep-work blocks unless the building is on fire.
"Won't train on users" isn't a marketing line — it's a constraint that shapes architecture. If you find that exciting, you'll fit in. If it sounds annoying, this isn't the place.
The shittiest gift you can give a teammate is silence. We give feedback close to the work, focused on the work, and we expect to receive it the same way. No surprises in reviews.
Healthcare, equity, and time off shouldn't be marketing copy. Here's the actual list.
Fully covered for you and your dependents in the US, UK, EU, and CA. Equivalent stipend everywhere else.
Mandatory four weeks off per year. Yes, mandatory. Plus a paid two-week shutdown every December.
Spend it on the chair, the desk, the monitor — whatever lets you do your best work from wherever you are.
Every full-timer gets stock, with extended exercise windows so leaving doesn't cost you what you earned.
One week in spring, one in fall. Travel covered. The only meeting-heavy weeks of the year, by design.
Books, courses, conferences, workshops. No approval form, just expense it. Stay sharp on our dime.
Don't see your role? We're always interested in extraordinary people. Email hello@hayfishai.com with what you'd want to do.
Lead the next generation of our diffusion stack — quality, speed, and on-device viability. You'll own model architecture choices, training infra, and the inference pipelines that ship to user devices.
You'll own the canvas — the surfaces creators spend their day inside. Multi-cursor collaboration, performant zoom & pan, and the small UI moments that make the difference between a tool people tolerate and a tool they love.
Cinema Studio is our most directorial surface. You'll design how a real DP would want to work with AI — camera moves, lens choices, lighting setups, motion paths. Reference: Frame.io meets Final Draft meets a real keylight.
Privacy-first AI is a research problem, not a marketing line. You'll push the boundaries of what's possible inside an M-series chip and make local inference feel as good as cloud — quantization, distillation, hardware-specific ops.
The pipeline that turns a prompt into a finished frame — queueing, scheduling, GPU orchestration, retries, observability. You'll make sure 4K renders feel like instant sketches.
Own how HayfishAI shows up in the world — the showcase wall, the brand films, the hero campaigns. You'll work directly with creators, curate what we feature, and turn the platform's output into a story that travels.
You'll make sure our privacy promises are real. Threat modeling, third-party audits, end-to-end encryption review, vulnerability disclosure program, and the boring infrastructure that turns marketing claims into engineering facts.
Bridge between us and the developer community building on top of HayfishAI. You'll write docs that don't suck, run office hours, ship reference implementations, and bring the best feedback back to product.
If you've got a clear idea of what you'd build with us, we want to hear it. Even if we're not "officially" hiring for it yet.
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