About the Role
This is a founding-level product engineering role at an early-stage AI consumer startup building an ambient intelligence system that lives across phone, watch, and desktop. You'll own the entire product surface end-to-end — from UX and UI through to the underlying AI agent and ASR pipeline — working directly with the Head of Product to ship features fast, with minimal spec and maximum ownership.
This is a role for a true superstar generalist: someone who combines sharp product judgment with the technical range to build across platforms and AI systems independently. No visa sponsorship is available for this role.
What You'll Do
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Own features end-to-end across mobile, watch, desktop, and the agent/ASR pipeline underneath them.
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Turn Slack threads and one-line asks into shipped, polished product — partnering directly with the Head of Product.
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Make independent UX, UI, backend, and AI/ML trade-offs based on what each feature actually needs.
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Ship improvements to ASR latency and accuracy, wearable reliability, cross-platform meeting detection, and agent responsiveness.
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Take features from design through ship through iteration, driven by real user feedback — no waiting for the next directive.
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Help shape and execute the product roadmap alongside Product and Design.
What We're Looking For
Required (dealbreakers):
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2+ years of full-time engineering experience shipping consumer features end-to-end across mobile, desktop, wearable, or backend platforms.
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Demonstrated capability across UX, UI, backend, and AI/ML — with shipped end-to-end consumer features across at least two of: mobile, desktop, wearable, or backend.
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Founding or early-stage startup engineering experience (pre-Series B or equivalent scale).
Also required:
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Full-stack product development: ability to make independent trade-offs and ship with minimal specification.
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Real-time and streaming systems experience — built or shipped features requiring low-latency or continuous data pipelines.
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Mobile platform development (iOS, Android, or cross-platform frameworks) with shipped consumer apps.
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Backend systems development — designed and shipped server-side features, APIs, or agent systems.
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Strong product sense demonstrated through shipped work: knows what's worth building and executes without detailed specs.
Nice to have:
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iOS or watchOS development with shipped applications.
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Speech, audio, or ASR ML pipeline experience (audio processing, speech recognition, or similar).
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AI-native consumer app experience — shipped features in LLM-powered or agent-based products.
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Agent or LLM feature-building — implemented agentic workflows or LLM-based features in production.
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Hardware-adjacent or wearable startup background.
Location
This is a hybrid role based in San Francisco, CA. You'll be expected to work in-person regularly with the founding team.
Compensation & Benefits
Compensation details will be discussed during the interview process. As a founding team member, equity will be a meaningful component of the package.
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