Cantina
cantina.com
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Content Creation
Generative Video
AI Agents
LLM & Generative AI
Media & Entertainment
Artificial Intelligence
Conversational AI
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Overview
Cantina is a social artificial intelligence technology company based in San Francisco, California, and founded in 2023. The company provides a platform where users can create, interact with, and share multimodal AI characters that feature unique personalities and the ability to generate video content. It operates primarily through a mobile application and web interface, focusing on the intersection of generative AI and social media for a global audience of creators and consumers.
Technologies
Tech DNA
Python
C++
Go
PyTorch
FFmpeg
Ray
DynamoDB
PostgreSQL
AWS
Azure
Amazon S3
Stable Diffusion
LLM
CLIP
AI/ML
Python
C++
SQL
Text-to-Speech
PyTorch
AWS
Multimodal AI
Speech Recognition
Kubernetes
Knowledge Distillation
CUDA Toolkit
Synthetic Data
DPO
Azure
Git
PyTorch C++
Fine-tuning
GRPO
LLM Guardrails
Docker
WebRTC
Amazon S3
pySpark
OpenCV
Ray
Spark
DeepSpeed
Tokenization
CUDA
FSDP
DynamoDB
CI/CD
GCP
AWS Lambda
Terraform
API Gateway
JAX
RLHF
ComfyUI
Diffusers
Stable Diffusion
TensorFlow
TensorRT
Transformers
Diffusion Models
Triton Inference Server
vLLM
LLM
Prompt Engineering
CLIP
Torchvision
VLM
Quantization
Triton
Computer Vision
RunPod
Post-training
Edge AI
PostgreSQL
Mobile
Objective-C
Swift
JavaScript
Node JS
Kotlin
TypeScript
Java
AVFoundation
Combine
Core Animation
UIKit
Koin
Kotlin Coroutines
Hilt
StateFlow
Dependency Injection
Branch
CameraX
Exoplayer
Jetpack Compose
MVVM
Room
ViewModel
WorkManager
Braze
Deep Linking
Gradle
Ktor
SQLDelight
Compose Multiplatform
Kotlin Multiplatform
Other
Go
C
FFmpeg
Figma
Amplitude
Mixpanel
A/B Testing
Iterable
Jira
WebAssembly
Stack modernity
81/100
How modern this stack is, based on technology relevance, AI adoption and the share of legacy tools.
In-demand technologies
Text-to-Speech
8 jobs
Required
$220k
+10% vs market
PyTorch
7 jobs
Required
$220k
-2% vs market
AWS
6 jobs
Required
$250k
+35% vs market
Multimodal AI
6 jobs
Required
$240k
-15% vs market
Python
6 jobs
Required
$220k
+22% vs market
Speech Recognition
5 jobs
Required
$220k
Median
Go
4 jobs
Required
$240k
+18% vs market
Knowledge Distillation
4 jobs
Required
$220k
-18% vs market
Salary medians are calculated from this company's open jobs and compared with the market.
Industry adoption
Python
17%
JavaScript
13%
CI/CD
13%
AWS
13%
SQL
12%
Kubernetes
12%
Share of companies in the same industry that use each technology.
Stack changes
A/B Testing
Aug 2026
Edge AI
Aug 2026
API Gateway
Aug 2026
Post-training
Aug 2026
Amazon S3
Aug 2026
FSDP
Aug 2026
Text-to-Speech
Aug 2026
LLM Guardrails
Aug 2026
Technologies recently added to or removed from this company's stack - a signal of tech migrations and new initiatives.
Jobgether
Adobe
Weekday
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$240k
Typical range
$165k – $270k
Open positions
17
12
Jobs
Senior
25%
Staff
66.7%
Architect
8.3%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 3 | $250k | $180k – $265k |
| Staff | 8 | $240k | $180k – $270k |
| Architect | 1 | $260k | $260k |
Highest paying role
Media Software Engineer, Speech (Senior-Staff Levels)
$270k
Normalized to USD per year
Growth
Hiring Momentum
61/100
Growing
Open positions
19
2 opened / 2 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
195 days
faster than 7% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~1 days
08/31/2026
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
AI/ML
44% ▲
Backend
22% ▼
Mobile
17% ▲
Product
11% ▼
Data Science
6% ▲
Actively hiring for Backend (+3 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: Sunnyvale
Aug 2026
Added RunPod to stack
Aug 2026
Added Computer Vision to stack
Aug 2026
Added Triton to stack
Aug 2026
Added CUDA to stack
Aug 2026
Added Jira to stack
Aug 2026
Added SQL to stack
Aug 2026
Added Mixpanel to stack
Aug 2026
Added Iterable to stack
Aug 2026
Added Deep Linking to stack
Aug 2026
Added Braze to stack
Aug 2026
Added Amplitude to stack
Aug 2026
Jobs
$175k – $250k per year • In office • Full-Time • 6+ years exp • San Francisco
SQL
Braze
Deep Linking
Analytics
A/B Testing
Marketing
Amplitude
Iterable
Mixpanel
Apply
$180k – $270k per year • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Sunnyvale • San Francisco
C++
Go
Node JS
JavaScript
Speech Recognition
DevOps
WebRTC
Apply
$200k – $220k per year • In office • Full-Time
C++
PyTorch C++
AI/ML
CUDA Toolkit
DeepSpeed
Knowledge Distillation
Multimodal AI
PyTorch
Synthetic Data
Tokenization
DPO
FSDP
GRPO
LLM Guardrails
Text-to-Speech
Speech Recognition
Apply
$200k – $240k per year • In office • Full-Time • 8+ years exp
Go
AWS
Terraform
Apply
Machine Learning Engineer, Speech - Joint Audio-Video Modeling
Verified live · 8 hours ago 1 month ago$200k – $220k per year • In office • Full-Time
C++
PyTorch C++
AI/ML
CUDA Toolkit
DeepSpeed
Knowledge Distillation
Multimodal AI
PyTorch
Quantization
Synthetic Data
Tokenization
DPO
FSDP
GRPO
LLM Guardrails
Text-to-Speech
Apply
Research Scientist (Singapore)
1 month ago≈ $59k – $168k per year (Estimated) • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • Master's Degree • Singapore
Python
C
pySpark
C
FFmpeg
AI/ML
Fine-tuning
JAX
Knowledge Distillation
Multimodal AI
OpenCV
PyTorch
Ray
RLHF
Spark
DPO
Post-training
DevOps
AWS
Azure
Docker
Kubernetes
Apply
iOS Engineer (Senior-Staff Levels)
1 month ago$180k – $240k per year • In office • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • San Francisco
Objective-C
Swift
Text-to-Speech
Mobile
AVFoundation
Combine
Core Animation
UIKit
DevOps
Git
Design
Figma
Apply
Prompt Engineer
1 month ago$150k – $180k per year • Equity • In office • TS/SCI • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Master's Degree • Los Angeles
Python
LLM
Prompt Engineering
Synthetic Data
Apply
Machine Learning Engineer (Singapore)
1 month agoEquity • In office • Confidential • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • Singapore
Python
C
pySpark
C
FFmpeg
AI/ML
CLIP
Multimodal AI
OpenCV
Ray
Torchvision
VLM
Spark
PyTorch
DevOps
AWS
Azure
Docker
Kubernetes
Apply
$125k – $165k per year • In office • Full-Time
Go
Python
Speech Recognition
Triton Inference Server
vLLM
Text-to-Speech
DevOps
CI/CD
Kubernetes
Apply
$200k – $240k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Los Angeles
Go
JavaScript
Node JS
TypeScript
DynamoDB
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Edge AI
Mobile
Branch
DevOps
AWS
AWS Lambda
Amazon S3
API Gateway
Apply
$150k – $180k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp
Jira
Apply
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