Cantina

Full-stack Engineer

• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and data specialists, to deliver high-quality, performant, and maintainable features.
• Experiment with and integrate new AI image, video, and voice generation technologies used to bring AI characters to life.
• Build tooling and infrastructure around various AI technologies.
• Gain exposure to the architecture and operations behind one of the fastest-growing social AI products globally.
• Contribute your expertise to help evolve team processes and technical infrastructure, ensuring scalability and reliability.

Staff Software Engineer, Bots

Community Manager

• Serve as the go-to expert on Cantina’s product, owning a deep understanding of tools, workflows, edge cases, and creator use cases across the platform.
• Own and maintain Help Center articles, ensuring documentation is clear, accurate, and up to date
• Proactively identify gaps in creator education and create new resources, guides, or training to address them
• Design education that goes beyond written documentation, including tutorials, walkthroughs, live learning moments, workshops, and community-based learning experiences
• Ensure education resources are easy to discover and accessible across Cantina, including within the Help Center and community touchpoints.
• Continuously evaluate and improve how creators learn Cantina’s tools, workflows, and best practices throughout their lifecycle on the platform
• Educate and enable internal team members (Community, Product, Marketing) so they can better support and guide creators
• Act as a bridge between Community and Product, synthesizing recurring creator and user feedback into clear, actionable insights
• Partner closely with Product and Marketing teams to stay aligned on launches, updates, and changes that impact education content
• Track and report the most common friction points, questions, and feature misunderstandings

Community Manager, Education

Engineer

• Define and author core behavior system prompts that shape how Cantina bots express personality, emotion, dialect, and social behavior across text, voice, image, and video.
• Identify key personality traits that make AI personas compelling, and create datasets and prompt structures that reliably reproduce those traits.
• Prototype new bot traits and product features through prompt engineering and iterate based on qualitative and quantitative evaluation.
• Balance short-term feature development with long-term behavioral consistency and quality across the Cantina ecosystem.
• Collaborate with research to build and maintain behavioral evaluations that measure bot performance, personality fidelity, and interaction quality over time.
• Partner with product, design, and engineering to translate creative intent and user feedback into scalable prompt systems.
• Review, refine, and evolve prompts as they move into production, helping establish best practices and launch criteria.
• Track emerging issues in bot behavior, prioritize improvements, and drive prompt-level solutions in ambiguous or high-impact areas.
• Document model quirks, prompting strategies, and guidelines to scale prompt development across teams.
• Support research and ML in our training efforts by delivering meta-prompts for our synthetic data pipelines and evaluating new model behavior

Prompt Engineer

Growth Marketing

• Leverage and expand your existing relationships within the San Francisco (and beyond) AI ecosystem through regular presence at demo days, meetups, private events, salons, conferences, and other networking events
• Build authentic relationships with founders, engineers, researchers, operators, and investors in generative AI and adjacent fields
• Represent Cantina in the community with genuine enthusiasm that naturally translates into strong advocacy
• Apply your technical background to assess the value proposition of emerging companies and teams across our key investment areas
• Track emerging technical concepts, research directions, and ecosystem trends—including notable talent movements
• Surface ideas and opportunities that excite you and could meaningfully shape Cantina's strategy
• Serve as the bridge between the AI community and Cantina, making strategic introductions at the right moments
• Cultivate relationships with high-quality technical talent and teams for potential acquihire opportunities
• Partner with leadership on strategic talent and partnership initiatives
• Travel up to 30% of the time

Strategic Growth Lead

Data Scientist

• Work closely with product managers, marketers, engineers, and designers to define success metrics and inform our product and growth strategy
• Design and analyze A/B tests and experiments to guide product and growth decisions
• Build and maintain dashboards, reporting pipelines, and monitoring tools that turn product data into actionable insights
• Research user behavior, and use the results to drive product innovation
• Help foster a data-informed culture across product and leadership teams

Staff Software Engineer, Bots

Community Manager, Education

Prompt Engineer

Strategic Growth Lead

Data Scientist, Product