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AI FundAI FundNew York, NY

Founding Engineering Lead

Lead engineering for an AI-powered voice app building social courage for Gen Z. Own web/mobile/backend stack, build voice AI primitives, co-design product, hire top talent, and architect for rapid iteration.

180k – 220k
On-siteEngineering Management

About the role

What You'll Do

  • Own the technical foundation of Meeno end-to-end: Web + mobile + backend + data + experimentation
  • Co-design product vision in close partnership with Meeno’s team:
    • Renate Nyborg, founder/CEO (former Tinder CEO, ex Apple/Headspace)
    • Josh Knox, product lead (founder of Outright, brand and content expert)
    • Andrew Ng, Chairman (AI Fund, founder of Coursera/Google Brain)
  • Build core AI product primitives:
    • Voice capture/playback
    • Low-latency interactions
    • Scene framework (content + branching + scoring hooks)
    • Feedback loops and user progression
    • Personalization
  • Architect for speed + iteration (weekly experiments, not quarterly releases)
  • Set the engineering bar:
    • Quality, reliability, security/privacy, and shipping culture
  • Hire and mentor engineers as we scale:
    • Focus on quality over quantity, leveraging AI and talent to scale while staying lean

What We're Looking For

  • Strong builder who has shipped consumer products
  • Comfortable with ambiguity and moving fast without breaking the soul of the product
  • Product taste: you care about “feel,” not just functionality
  • Excited by voice, interaction design, and behavior change
  • Can operate like a founder: make tradeoffs, set direction, ship

Green flags (not requirements)

  • Hyped about social connection, empathy for Gen Z loneliness
  • Early adopter of AI-driven development
  • Hungry for rapid career progression and societal impact
  • Experience with audio/voice pipelines, realtime systems, mobile performance
  • History of building unconventional projects (creative tech, experiments, indie builds)
  • Interest in human behavior, social dynamics, and product psychology

What success looks like (first 6 months)

  • Meeno has a stable foundation, and we can run rapid experiments
  • Our product feels fast, human, and culturally sharp
  • We have a pipeline of world-class engineering talent
  • We are well-positioned to raise Series A with clear signal on north star metrics
  • We are having fun

Skills

JavaScriptReact NativeNode.jsPythonAI/MLVoice ProcessingReal-Time SystemsAWSPostgresDocker
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