hedra

Hedra is a technology company that builds platforms, models, and infrastructure focused on visual intelligence. The company develops models and systems designed to push visual intelligence capabilities, alongside the infrastructure necessary to make these models fast, efficient, reliable, and accessible at scale. Hedra serves researchers and engineers who work across boundaries to build visual intelligence solutions.

The team operates out of San Francisco and is backed by investors including a16z. Team members own problems end to end and influence both product development and engineering methods.

Hedra's open roles indicate that the company is building a technical team focused on machine learning systems and inference optimization. The current job opening is for an Inference Optimization Engineer located in San Francisco, working closely with the research team to make visual models efficient at inference time. The team evaluates candidates based on technical depth, curiosity, and demonstrated ability rather than years of experience, remaining open to both experienced ML systems engineers and early-career engineers or researchers with a strong background in model performance, GPU systems, or efficient inference.