At a Glance
- Tasks: Own major parts of the core product and influence technical direction from day one.
- Company: AI-powered market research platform transforming customer understanding.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, remote work, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Dynamic startup environment with immediate impact and career advancement.
- Why this job: Join an elite founding team and push the boundaries of applied GenAI.
- Qualifications: 5+ years of full-stack software engineering experience, ideally with ML/AI exposure.
The predicted salary is between 135000 - 165000 $ per year.
Our client is an AI-powered market research platform that helps organizations run qualitative research at quantitative scale. Leveraging advanced voice AI and automated analysis, they enable businesses to have natural, real-time conversations with hundreds of customers at once — turning months of traditional research into hours of actionable insights. They’re reinventing the way companies understand their customers, transforming a historically underserved but critical function that drives innovation, marketing, and product positioning for major brands.
Why Join Them?
- Explosive growth: They’re seeing rapid traction across mid-market and enterprise, including six-figure deals and fast-moving sales cycles.
- Clear product-market fit: Most of their wins come from solving real customer pain points, meaning they rarely need to compete on price.
- A naturally viral product: Insights are easily shared across large teams, creating an organic product-led growth loop.
- Elite founding team: Their founders come from Google Research, Meta, Amazon, and Samsara, bringing deep experience scaling enterprise and PLG SaaS companies.
- Huge market opportunity: Demand for modern customer understanding tools is accelerating — and they’re positioned to become the end-to-end platform of choice for fast, high-quality insight generation.
The Role:
As a founding engineer, you’ll own major parts of the core product and influence the technical direction from day one. You’ll work across the stack — engineering, research, infrastructure, and product — with work that has immediate and visible impact.
What You’ll Do
- Push the boundaries of applied GenAI: deploy foundation models for dynamic conversations, reasoning, and large-scale thematic analysis.
- Innovate in voice & speech AI: improve pipelines for voice generation, speech recognition, and real-time conversation orchestration.
- Build full-stack product experiences: dashboards, collaboration tools, and intuitive workflows that make research faster and easier.
- Lead the future of agent-led UX: help shape a backend powered by intelligent agents and experiment with generative UI.
- Scale infrastructure: design systems that support thousands of concurrent AI-mediated interviews, large datasets, and secure enterprise integrations.
- Establish engineering excellence: define best practices, mentor early hires, and foster a culture of speed, rigor, and craftsmanship.
- Collaborate cross-functionally: work closely with Growth and Customers to turn feedback into the right product decisions at the right time.
What They’re Looking For
- 5+ years of full-stack software engineering experience, ideally with exposure to ML/AI products or infrastructure.
- A track record of shipping production systems in fast-paced startup environments (0→1 or 1→10).
- Strength in one or more of: backend systems, ML/AI pipelines, full-stack web development, or real-time/voice infrastructure.
- Curiosity and willingness to dive deep into applied R&D — LLMs, voice generation, speech recognition, reasoning models.
- A high-energy builder mindset with a strong bias for action and comfort with ambiguity.
- Bonus: experience with enterprise SaaS, insights/research tools, or scaling compute-heavy/AI-heavy systems.
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