What We're Looking For

The mindset matters more than the CV

You don't need to have worked at a particular company or passed a particular interview loop. What we care about is how you operate:

• Bias for action. You build before asking permission. You ship something scrappy to test a hypothesis before writing a spec.
• Rapid learner. You pick up new tools, APIs, and customer contexts quickly - and you enjoy the discomfort of operating at the edge of what you know.
• Customer instinct. You naturally ask "what problem are they actually trying to solve?" before writing a line of code.
• Commercially aware. You understand that speed of delivery is a form of value. You make tradeoffs that a product engineer might not - and you own the consequences.
• Communicator. You can run a technical deep-dive with an enterprise architect in the morning and explain your approach to a CPO in the afternoon.

Experience signals we look for

• Experience building and shipping working software - the form it took matters less than the fact you've owned something end-to-end.
• Comfort working across the stack or with APIs and integrations to deliver solutions quickly.
• Some exposure to customer or commercial contexts - whether that's a startup, an agency, a consulting role, or a side project with real users.
• Familiarity with how enterprise customers think about technical integrations and vendor solutions.
• Experience using AI tools to accelerate your output (we expect this to be part of how you work, not a bonus).

What we're explicitly not optimising for

• Mastery of a specific language, framework, or infrastructure stack.
• Performance on algorithmic coding challenges or system design interviews at the level we'd apply for product engineering roles.
• Deep specialisation in ML, platform engineering, or any single technical domain.

How This Role Differs From Our Product Engineering Roles

What Success Looks Like (First 12 Months)

• You've led three or more end-to-end custom engagements for strategic customers, from scoping call to working deployment.
• You've built a reputation internally as the person who can get things done with and for customers - fast.
• You've fed meaningful insights from the field back to product teams, influencing at least one roadmap decision.
• You've become comfortable operating across the full Synthesia platform and API surface, and know where the edges are.
• You've helped define the playbook for how FDE engagements are scoped, run, and handed off.

Why join us?

We’re living the golden age of AI. The next decade will yield the next iconic companies, and we dare to say we have what it takes to become one. Here’s why,

Our culture

At Synthesia we’re passionate about building, not talking, planning or politicising. We strive to hire the smartest, kindest and most unrelenting people and let them do their best work without distractions. Our work principles serve as our charter for how we make decisions, give feedback and structure our work to empower everyone to go as fast as possible. You can find out more about these principles here.

Serving 50,000+ customers (and 50% of the Fortune 500)

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.

Proprietary AI technology

Since 2017, we’ve been pioneering advancements in Generative AI. Our AI technology is built in-house, by a team of world-class AI researchers and engineers. Learn more about our AI Research Lab and the team behind.

AI Safety, Ethics and Security

AI safety, ethics, and security are fundamental to our mission. While the full scope of Artificial Intelligence's impact on our society is still unfolding, our position is clear: People first. Always. Learn more about our commitments to AI Ethics, Safety & Security.

The hiring process:

• Tech Recruiter Interview (30-40min) - Technical background, previous experience, and what you're looking for
• Delivery and Impact Interview (60min) - Deep dive into your past projects, impact, and ways of working

Technical Rounds:

• Product Discovery/Implementation (75-90min) - Hands-on problem solving (not Leetcode style); collaboration exercise with one of our engineers. AI-assisted coding.
• System Design Technical Discussion (60min) - Real architectural problems we've faced in production
• Leadership Retrospective (60min) - Examples of collaboration and growth; your future manager or VP of Engineering will outline your role and what's ahead

Final debrief on our side which leads to an offer or the end of the process.

Other important info:

• Our preference is for this role to based either in-office or remote in the following locations: UK, Germany, Switzerland or Ireland.
• We may also be able to support remote workers in other locations across Europe subject to compliance and right to work checks.
• The salary starts at EUR/GBP/CHF 130.000 base + RSU's.
• This is full-time employment only - no contractors possible - usually through OysterHR.
• Everyone at Synthesia gets 25 days of leave + local holidays.

You can find more details on what to expect and how to prepare HERE. The process does not need to take long - we can be done in two weeks time.