Founding Engineer

Wayback Labs

Job Location:

Los Angeles, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 7 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Wayback Labsis a new startup building playful consumer products at the intersection of AI and camera roll.

Were seeking a founding engineer to join our tiny team! Were funded but pre-launch so truly a ground floor opportunity for the right person.

The iPhone is now 18 years old (!!) and we all have thousands of photos and screenshotscaptured over decadesjust idling in our camera roll. Previously this was unstructured chaos. But were using AI vision models to analyze your camera roll and construct a deeply personalized understanding of who you areand were using that to build entirely new categories of personalized software. Its a huge opportunity.

Wayback Labs was started by Jonathan Wegener who previously foundedTimehop (the company that invented digital nostalgia 25M users acquired). He also ran the Memories product at Snapchat and has spent the last decade obsessed with how photos shape memory and identity. Hes an experienced founder who has started three companies raised $17M hired dozens of people and worked at Snapchat and Tinder

About you -- two possible archetypes we have in mind:

Archetype 1:

iOS nerd deep swift experience obsessively watches/attends WWDC and tries all the latest APIs/SDKs

built consumer mobile apps at scale

experience with rich media: photos video camera audio (ex-snapchat tiktok clubhouse instagram/facebook etc)

has used Apple vision coreML etc.

has shipped side projects

Located in California (SF/LA/SD) or willing to spend a week per month here.

Or Archetype 2:

backend generalist

experience working with photo/video and LLMs

experience with evaluation/benchmarking

built/managed consumer products at scale ideally supporting mobile app front ends

has shipped side project

Located in California (SF/LA/SD) or willing to spend a week per month here.

If any of this hits a nerve wed love to chat email us at - you can ignore the lame form below :)

Required Experience:

Wayback Labsis a new startup building playful consumer products at the intersection of AI and camera roll.Were seeking a founding engineer to join our tiny team! Were funded but pre-launch so truly a ground floor opportunity for the right person.The iPhone is now 18 years old (!!) and we all have th...