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Founding Engineer
Empathic
San FranciscoOn-site6mo ago
- Employment
- Full-time
About the role
- 3+ years experience, excluding internships, with 1+ year senior responsibilities
- You use AI gen to move faster in all aspects of development, but you developed deep technical taste before, with strong opinions on systems, code quality, and the craft of software development.
- Proficiency in one or more backend languages (e.g., Python, Go, Rust, Typescript or similar) and distributed systems concepts, work with databases, etc. You've built apps full stack.
- Frontend proficiency and design taste is a massive plus.
- You are excited about working at the earliest stage! Former founder, or early engineer at a startup who has built a product from scratch is a plus
- Proven ability to thrive in fast-growing, product-driven companies by effectively navigating loosely defined tasks and managing competing priorities.
- Shape the next generation of human-AI interaction with our founder, design, and other engineers.
- Build new systems for memory, retrieval, proactivity, responsiveness, and more
- Work on and integrate the latest internal and external real-time video generation and audio synthesis models
- Build user facing interfaces and features
- Create the bar for engineering quality and help recruit world-class talent.
- Report directly to the founder: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike21/
- 20-minute screening call
- 2 technical interviews
- Onsite
- Offer
- Extremely generous equity ownership
- Generous medical/dental/vision, covering most Gold and Platinum plans (via employer ICHRA)
- Free lunch and dinner every day
- Monthly bonus if you live or move close to the office
- 401k plus match
- Obvious things (work computer, things you need to get things done)
Perks & benefits
- 401k
- Equity Compensation
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