About the Role
This is a founding-level engineering role at an early-stage AI consumer startup building an ambient intelligence product that spans phone, watch, and desktop. You'll own the full product surface — from UX and UI through to the underlying AI agent and speech recognition pipeline — working directly alongside the Head of Product to ship fast and iterate on real user feedback.
What You'll Do
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Own features end-to-end across mobile, wearable, desktop, and the agent/ASR pipeline beneath them.
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Translate lightweight briefs and Slack threads into shipped product with minimal specification.
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Make independent trade-offs across UX, UI, backend, and AI/ML based on what each feature actually needs.
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Drive improvements to ASR latency and accuracy, wearable reliability, cross-platform detection, and agent responsiveness.
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Take features from design through ship through iteration, closing the loop on user feedback without waiting for direction.
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Partner closely with Product and Design to prioritize and execute the roadmap.
What We're Looking For
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2+ years of full-time experience shipping consumer features end-to-end across mobile, desktop, wearable, or backend platforms.
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Genuine capability across at least two of: mobile, desktop, wearable, and backend — with shipped work to show for it.
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Founding or early-stage startup engineering experience (pre-Series B or equivalent scale).
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Full-stack product development ability — comfortable making UX, UI, backend, and AI/ML trade-offs independently.
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Experience building real-time or streaming systems requiring low-latency or continuous data pipelines.
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Strong product sense: knows what's worth building and can execute without detailed specs.
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Nice to have: iOS/watchOS or wearable development; speech, audio, or ASR ML pipeline experience; AI-native or LLM-powered consumer app work; agent/agentic workflow implementation; hardware-adjacent startup background.
Compensation & Benefits
Salary: $200,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.
Location
Hybrid — San Francisco, CA, United States.
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