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Synthesia is the world’s leading AI video platform for business, used by over 90% of the Fortune 100. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in London, with offices and teams across Europe and the US. As AI continues to shape the way we live and work, Synthesia develops products to enhance visual communication and enterprise skill development, helping people work better and stay at the center of successful organizations. Following our recent Series E funding round, where we raised $200 million, our valuation stands at $4 billion. Our total funding exceeds $530 million from premier investors including Accel, NVentures (Nvidia's VC arm), Kleiner Perkins, GV, and Evantic Capital, alongside the founders and operators of Stripe, Datadog, Miro, and Webflow. Welcome to the video first world! From your everyday PowerPoint presentations to Hollywood movies, AI will transform the way we create and consume content. Today, people want to watch and listen, not read — both at home and at work. If you’re reading this and nodding, check out our brand video . Despite the clear preference for video, communication and knowledge sharing in the business environment are still dominated by text, largely because high-quality video production remains complex and challenging to scale—until now…. Meet Synthesia We're on a mission to make video easy for everyone. Born in an AI lab, our AI video communications platform simplifies the entire video production process, making it easy for everyone, regardless of skill level, to create, collaborate, and share high-quality videos. Whether it's for delivering essential training to employees and customers or marketing products and services, Synthesia enables large organizations to communicate and share knowledge through video quickly and efficiently. We’re trusted by leading brands such as Heineken, Zoom, Xerox, McDonald’s and more. Read stories from happy customers and what 1,200+ people say on G2 . In 2023, we were one of 7 European companies

Synthesia is the world’s leading AI video platform for business, used by over 90% of the Fortune 100. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in London, with offices and teams across Europe and the US. As AI continues to shape the way we live and work, Synthesia develops products to enhance visual communication and enterprise skill development, helping people work better and stay at the center of successful organizations. Following our recent Series E funding round, where we raised $200 million, our valuation stands at $4 billion. Our total funding exceeds $530 million from premier investors including Accel, NVentures (Nvidia's VC arm), Kleiner Perkins, GV, and Evantic Capital, alongside the founders and operators of Stripe, Datadog, Miro, and Webflow. Welcome to the video first world! From your everyday PowerPoint presentations to Hollywood movies, AI will transform the way we create and consume content. Today, people want to watch and listen, not read — both at home and at work. If you’re reading this and nodding, check out our brand video . Despite the clear preference for video, communication and knowledge sharing in the business environment are still dominated by text, largely because high-quality video production remains complex and challenging to scale—until now…. Meet Synthesia We're on a mission to make video easy for everyone. Born in an AI lab, our AI video communications platform simplifies the entire video production process, making it easy for everyone, regardless of skill level, to create, collaborate, and share high-quality videos. Whether it's for delivering essential training to employees and customers or marketing products and services, Synthesia enables large organizations to communicate and share knowledge through video quickly and efficiently. We’re trusted by leading brands such as Heineken, Zoom, Xerox, McDonald’s and more. Read stories from happy customers, what 1,200+ people say on G2 and being named as one of the "Top Startups to Bet

Synthesia is the world’s leading AI video platform for business, used by over 90% of the Fortune 100. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in London, with offices and teams across Europe and the US. As AI continues to shape the way we live and work, Synthesia develops products to enhance visual communication and enterprise skill development, helping people work better and stay at the center of successful organizations. Following our recent Series E funding round, where we raised $200 million, our valuation stands at $4 billion. Our total funding exceeds $530 million from premier investors including Accel, NVentures (Nvidia's VC arm), Kleiner Perkins, GV, and Evantic Capital, alongside the founders and operators of Stripe, Datadog, Miro, and Webflow. Welcome to the video first world! From your everyday PowerPoint presentations to Hollywood movies, AI will transform the way we create and consume content. Today, people want to watch and listen, not read — both at home and at work. If you’re reading this and nodding, check out our brand video . Despite the clear preference for video, communication and knowledge sharing in the business environment are still dominated by text, largely because high-quality video production remains complex and challenging to scale—until now…. Meet Synthesia We're on a mission to make video easy for everyone. Born in an AI lab, our AI video communications platform simplifies the entire video production process, making it easy for everyone, regardless of skill level, to create, collaborate, and share high-quality videos. Whether it's for delivering essential training to employees and customers or marketing products and services, Synthesia enables large organizations to communicate and share knowledge through video quickly and efficiently. We’re trusted by leading brands such as Heineken, Zoom, Xerox, McDonald’s and more. Read stories from happy customers and what 1,200+ people say on G2 . In 2023, we were one of 7 European companies

Overview Role: GTM Associate 5 days a week in NYC HQ Base salary: $140-180k Equity: Competitive Initial Equity Package + refreshers 3+ Years of Experience About Pillar Pillar is building the next-generation commodity risk management stack for the $10T physical economy. We combine real-time market data with AI-powered exposure modeling and automated trade generation to arm operators with precise protection from volatility. From instant execution to continuous monitoring, alerts, and recommendations, Pillar turns complex market risk into a fully managed, always-on hedging engine. We were founded in 2023 by the youngest macro market-maker at Barclays and a trading systems engineer at Coinbase, and have raised over $20M in capital from Andreesen Horowitz (a16z), Crucible Capital, Neo, DST Global and more. What You’ll Do GTM & Client Growth Outreach & engagement: Source and engage prospects through email, cold outreach, conferences, and referrals. Pipeline building: Identify companies with commodity exposure and hedging needs. Build a consistent outbound pipeline of qualified opportunities. Consultative selling: Run discovery calls and demos that speak credibly to operators, procurement teams, and finance leaders. Understand their exposures and show how Pillar solves them. Closing: Build proposals, ROI cases, and negotiate terms. Own deals from first touch through close. Client onboarding: Ensure new clients are set up for success, partnering with the team to deliver a seamless experience. Process improvement: Refine outreach templates, pitch materials, and sales workflows as we scale. What We are Looking For 2-4 years of experience in management consulting, investment banking, start-up building, or go-to-market roles Understanding of how physical operators think about commodities / physical inputs, hedging, risk, and managing input / output price volatility Commercial and relationship-driven mindset, where you're energized by getting to know potential customers,

Role: Point72 is looking for a Quantitative Researcher to join its Fund Flow Research team. The Fund Flow Group provides best in class flow and positioning indicators to help PMs, analysts, and traders across all investment functions understand their investment backdrop, better assess reward and risk, and identify alpha opportunities. Responsibilities : Create systematic trading strategies for macro and equity markets using proprietary flow and positioning datasets Conduct rigorous applied research to develop systematic signals for macro and equity markets, with a focus on investor flows and positioning Contribute to all aspects of the research and production process, including idea generation, hypothesis testing, portfolio construction, risk and transaction cost models, and P&L attribution Monitor, analyze and improve live trading P&L Collaborate with analysts and strategists to improve PM-facing content Requirements: Undergraduate, Master’s or PhD candidates in a technical field Demonstrated creativity and rigor in the research process Technically comfortable handling large datasets stored in AWS using Python Collaborative mindset Passion for research and financial markets Intellectual curiosity, exceptional attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines in a fast-paced environment Commitment to the highest ethical standards

Role: Point72 is looking for a Quantitative Developer to join its Fund Flow Research team. The Fund Flow Group provides best in class flow and positioning indicators to help PMs, analysts, and traders across all investment functions understand their investment backdrop, better assess reward and risk, and identify alpha opportunities. Responsibilities : Partner with researchers to release high-quality production code Integrate AI into written content creation, internal client service, and team operations Develop generic frameworks to build flow datasets across equities, credit, and macro Troubleshoot and resolve production issues Requirements: Undergraduate degree or higher in a technical field Strong programming skills in Python Strong orientation towards team success and desire to mentor teammates Passion for technology and markets Strong written and verbal communication skills Intellectual curiosity, exceptional attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines in a fast-paced environment Commitment to the highest ethical standards

Synthesia is the world’s leading AI video platform for business, used by over 90% of the Fortune 100. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in London, with offices and teams across Europe and the US. As AI continues to shape the way we live and work, Synthesia develops products to enhance visual communication and enterprise skill development, helping people work better and stay at the center of successful organizations. Following our recent Series E funding round, where we raised $200 million, our valuation stands at $4 billion. Our total funding exceeds $530 million from premier investors including Accel, NVentures (Nvidia's VC arm), Kleiner Perkins, GV, and Evantic Capital, alongside the founders and operators of Stripe, Datadog, Miro, and Webflow. About the role You will focus on friction points around primarily backend issues for all teams in Engineering (90 Engineers). How should we do inter-service testing? Some teams are using monorepo, others aren’t. How can we bring overall stability up? Generally steering BE in the right direction. In the near future, standardising things across all of Engineering and bringing R&D teams (another 40 Engineers and Researchers) closer. You will have ownership of projects that span quarters, requiring you to have the ability to break a problem down into small steps that can be delivered and validated iteratively. You will evaluate your own work, leveraging our data pipeline and frameworks that we have established to understand the impact your features have on our commercial objectives and pivoting where necessary. You will consider the long-term direction of Engineering, making sure that we are developing the engineering capabilities that will allow us to stay ahead of the challenges we are likely to encounter in 12-18 months' time. You will work end-to-end, from our client application written in React to our monolithic backend written in Python, and lead projects that span across multiple teams. What we're looking

Synthesia is the world’s leading AI video platform for business, used by over 90% of the Fortune 100. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in London, with offices and teams across Europe and the US. As AI continues to shape the way we live and work, Synthesia develops products to enhance visual communication and enterprise skill development, helping people work better and stay at the center of successful organizations. Following our recent Series E funding round, where we raised $200 million, our valuation stands at $4 billion. Our total funding exceeds $530 million from premier investors including Accel, NVentures (Nvidia's VC arm), Kleiner Perkins, GV, and Evantic Capital, alongside the founders and operators of Stripe, Datadog, Miro, and Webflow. About the role As a Staff Research Engineer, you will join a team of 40+ Researchers and Engineers within the R&D Department working on cutting edge challenges in the Generative AI space, with a focus on avatar-centric interactive video diffusion models. Within the team you’ll have the opportunity to work on the applied side of our research efforts and directly impact our solutions that are used worldwide by over 60,000 businesses. This is a unique opportunity for experts in machine learning and diffusion models to shape the future of AI video agents that can think, act, and react like humans. As part of our Interactive Avatars Team, you’ll work on cutting-edge research with a clear focus on turning breakthrough ideas into real product capabilities. You’ll join a team that moves fast, iterates often, and builds models that ship and make a meaningful impact. Example tasks and responsibilities include: Adapt diffusion models to incorporate diverse conditioning signals (e.g., audio, motion, interaction cues). Develop methods for streaming infinitely long video sequences at real-time rates. Work on the perceptual layer of interactive agents, including understanding user audio and generating appropriate contextua

Synthesia is the world’s leading AI video platform for business, used by over 90% of the Fortune 100. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in London, with offices and teams across Europe and the US. As AI continues to shape the way we live and work, Synthesia develops products to enhance visual communication and enterprise skill development, helping people work better and stay at the center of successful organizations. Following our recent Series E funding round, where we raised $200 million, our valuation stands at $4 billion. Our total funding exceeds $530 million from premier investors including Accel, NVentures (Nvidia's VC arm), Kleiner Perkins, GV, and Evantic Capital, alongside the founders and operators of Stripe, Datadog, Miro, and Webflow. About the role The Data team manages the complete lifecycle of data for researchers - from sourcing and large-scale processing to delivering datasets that power our models. Data sits at the heart of our Research efforts and enables all other teams. As part of the Data team, you’ll work with over a million hours of video and audio data. This role exists at the intersection of applied research, data engineering, and ML infrastructure rather than being a traditional research position . You’ll build the world’s best human-centric data lake by collaborating closely with our model training teams. By understanding their requirements, you’ll extract new features and annotations that elevate our datasets. You should be passionate about enhancing model performance through high-quality, accurate datasets. Our infrastructure and pipelines are in great shape, and this role provides room to not only enhance them but also influence the team’s longer-term strategy. What we're looking for: A strong background in data-centric, applied Machine Learning, with hands-on experience improving model performance through data quality, curation, labeling, and evaluation rather than model architecture alone Experience working on the data la

Synthesia is the world’s leading AI video platform for business, used by over 90% of the Fortune 100. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in London, with offices and teams across Europe and the US. As AI continues to shape the way we live and work, Synthesia develops products to enhance visual communication and enterprise skill development, helping people work better and stay at the center of successful organizations. Following our recent Series E funding round, where we raised $200 million, our valuation stands at $4 billion. Our total funding exceeds $530 million from premier investors including Accel, NVentures (Nvidia's VC arm), Kleiner Perkins, GV, and Evantic Capital, alongside the founders and operators of Stripe, Datadog, Miro, and Webflow. What you'll do at Synthesia As a Research Engineer you will join a team of 40+ Researchers and Engineers within the R&D Department working on cutting-edge challenges in the Generative AI space, with a focus on creating high-quality, expressive and real-time synthetic voices. Within the team you’ll have the opportunity to work on the applied side of our research efforts and directly impact our solutions that are used worldwide by over 60,000 businesses. If you are an expert in ML, LLMs, speech generation, conversational models , this is your chance to make a global impact. You will join our Audio Post-Training Team , which works on generative speech and voice synthesis , ensuring our in-house voice models reach production-level quality, speed, and robustness. Typical projects include: Develop and evaluate streaming and speech-to-speech systems, enabling low-latency, interactive voice synthesis. Adapt models for new conditioning inputs (emotion, speed, prosody, speaker control, etc.). Implement post-training optimization techniques (quantization, pruning, distillation) to improve efficiency and latency in real-time speech generation. Integrate and test novel architectures, such as neural codecs, diffusion, or

Overview Role: Lead Software Engineer - DevOps and Infra 5 days a week in NYC HQ Base salary: $175k-250k Equity: Competitive Initial Equity Package + refreshers 3+ Years of Experience About Pillar Pillar is building the next-generation commodity risk management stack for the $10T physical economy. We combine real-time marketdata with AI-powered exposure modeling and automated trade generation to arm operators with precise protection from volatility. From instant execution to continuous monitoring, alerts, and recommendations, Pillar turns complex market risk into a fully managed, always-on hedging engine. We were founded in 2023 by the youngest macro market-maker at Barclays and a trading systems engineer at Coinbase, and have raised over $20M in capital from Andreesen Horowitz (a16z), Crucible Capital, Neo, DST Global and more. What You’ll Do Expand and Own the AWS Cloud: You will take full ownership of our AWS environment. We aren't just looking for someone to keep the lights on; we want you to architect, scale, and optimize our cloud footprint to support new services, ensuring our AWS presence is robust, cost-effective, and deeply integrated with our core trading systems. Architect the Infrastructure Stack: You will lead our transition to a full Infrastructure as Code (IaC) model . Your goal is to eliminate manual configuration by building out a sophisticated, modular Terraform stack. We want a world where our entire hybrid footprint—from cloud instances to colocation networking—is defined, tested, and deployed through code. System Hardening & Security: You’ll be the gatekeeper for our environments. This means managing the full lifecycle of container security, CVE remediation, and hitting our SOC2 milestones without slowing down the team. Observability Architecture: Beyond just setting up dashboards, you will design our monitoring strategy using to catch bottlenecks before they become outages. Pipeline Evolution: You'll refine our GitHub Actions and CI/CD wor

Overview Role: Quantitative Software Engineer Lead 5 days a week in NYC HQ Base salary: $225k-375k Equity: Competitive Initial Equity Package + refreshers 4+ Years of Experience About Pillar Pillar is building the next-generation commodity risk management stack for the $10T physical economy. We combine real-time marketdata with AI-powered exposure modeling and automated trade generation to arm operators with precise protection from volatility. From instant execution to continuous monitoring, alerts, and recommendations, Pillar turns complex market risk into a fully managed, always-on hedging engine. We were founded in 2023 by the youngest macro market-maker at Barclays and a trading systems engineer at Coinbase, and have raised over $20M in capital from Andreesen Horowitz (a16z), Crucible Capital, Neo, Crossbeam Venture Partners and more. What You’ll Do Architect the future of commodity trading infrastructure: Lead development of our trading system as we start scaling in new markets and onboarding new customers. Engineer at the edge of performance: Build and optimize low-latency distributed systems, ensuring our platform minimizes risk and gets optimal prices on fills. Build and mentor a world-class team: Shape our engineering culture, hire and mentor talented engineers, and collaborate directly with founders to solve some of the most challenging problems in financial technology. Own critical systems end-to-end: From market data ingestion to order execution and risk monitoring, you'll have autonomy over mission-critical infrastructure that keeps our clients' businesses running 24/7. What We are Looking For Deep understanding of data structures, algorithms, design patterns, and core systems fundamentals. Extensive experience architecting and building complex financial systems with a focus on building and scaling low latency event driven distributed systems Strong ownership and teamwork, ability to work collaboratively to unblock work, drive momentum, and make sure im

Overview Role: Product Engineer Lead 5 days a week in NYC HQ Base salary: $180k-$300k Equity: Competitive Initial Equity Package + refreshers 4+ Years of Experience About Pillar Pillar is building the next-generation commodity risk management stack for the $10T physical economy. We combine real-time marketdata with AI-powered exposure modeling and automated trade generation to arm operators with precise protection from volatility. From instant execution to continuous monitoring, alerts, and recommendations, Pillar turns complex market risk into a fully managed, always-on hedging engine. We were founded in 2023 by the youngest macro market-maker at Barclays and a trading systems engineer at Coinbase, and have raised over $20M in capital from Andreesen Horowitz (a16z), Crucible Capital, Neo, DST Global and more. What You’ll Do Own core product features end-to-end — from concept and architecture to shipping, iteration, and scaling Architect and build high-performance UIs that render automated hedge recommendations, track open positions, and show real time marketdata Lead the rebuild and evolution of product architecture across the stack—including UI foundations and backend APIs—to enable speed, reliability, and scale Work directly with founders, and customers to define product direction and translate complex risk workflows into intuitive experiences Lead the development of AI-enabled features, integrating LLMs and model-driven insights into mission-critical operator workflows Drive engineering best practices, mentor other engineers, and help shape Pillar’s product and technical culture What We are Looking For Product Ownership: You have a proven track record of building products and leading 0 → 1 initiatives Full Stack Experience: A strong background in React/Typescript and familiarity with NextJS, and in building complex, performant UIs. Comfortable working across the stack, including back-end API’s and integrations, but with a bias towards front-end AI-Enabled Produc

Synthesia is the world’s leading AI video platform for business, used by over 90% of the Fortune 100. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in London, with offices and teams across Europe and the US. As AI continues to shape the way we live and work, Synthesia develops products to enhance visual communication and enterprise skill development, helping people work better and stay at the center of successful organizations. Following our recent Series E funding round, where we raised $200 million, our valuation stands at $4 billion. Our total funding exceeds $530 million from premier investors including Accel, NVentures (Nvidia's VC arm), Kleiner Perkins, GV, and Evantic Capital, alongside the founders and operators of Stripe, Datadog, Miro, and Webflow. About the role As a Senior Research Engineer, you will join a team of 40+ Researchers and Engineers within the R&D Department working on cutting edge challenges in the Generative AI space, with a focus on avatar-centric interactive video diffusion models. Within the team you’ll have the opportunity to work on the applied side of our research efforts and directly impact our solutions that are used worldwide by over 60,000 businesses. This is a unique opportunity for experts in machine learning and diffusion models to shape the future of AI video agents that can think, act, and react like humans. As part of our Interactive Avatars Team, you’ll work on cutting-edge research with a clear focus on turning breakthrough ideas into real product capabilities. You’ll join a team that moves fast, iterates often, and builds models that ship and make a meaningful impact. Example tasks and responsibilities include: Adapt diffusion models to incorporate diverse conditioning signals (e.g., audio, motion, interaction cues). Develop methods for streaming infinitely long video sequences at real-time rates. Work on the perceptual layer of interactive agents, including understanding user audio and generating appropriate contextu

Synthesia is the world’s leading AI video platform for business, used by over 90% of the Fortune 100. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in London, with offices and teams across Europe and the US. As AI continues to shape the way we live and work, Synthesia develops products to enhance visual communication and enterprise skill development, helping people work better and stay at the center of successful organizations. Following our recent Series E funding round, where we raised $200 million, our valuation stands at $4 billion. Our total funding exceeds $530 million from premier investors including Accel, NVentures (Nvidia's VC arm), Kleiner Perkins, GV, and Evantic Capital, alongside the founders and operators of Stripe, Datadog, Miro, and Webflow. The role... We are looking for a commercially sharp, consultative Solutions Consultant to drive technical validation and value realization for Synthesia across both prospects and customers. This role sits at the intersection of Sales, Customer Success, and Product, and is responsible for ensuring that Synthesia is not only understood - but proven, adopted, and expanded based on clear business outcomes . You will own the technical win in deals, shape high-impact use cases, and ensure customers achieve first successful workflows that create the foundation for long-term adoption and growth. What You'll Do Lead discovery and qualification Run structured discovery with senior stakeholders to uncover business priorities, workflows, constraints, and success metrics Challenge vague requests and reframe them into clear, high-impact use cases Qualify rigorously: assess fit, urgency, stakeholder commitment, and path to value before committing support Surface adoption, technical, and organizational risks early, before they derail the deal or weaken rollout Own solution design and technical validation Translate business needs into clear solution approaches, validation plans, and customer-facing recommendations Design and run