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Founding EngineerBreakthrough Talent • Hayward, California, United States
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Founding Engineer

Founding Engineer

Breakthrough Talent • Hayward, California, United States
17 hours ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

A growing team San Francisco is building the next generation of emotionally intelligent AI systems that combine language, voice, emotion, and visuals to make human and AI interaction feel natural.

As a Founding Engineer, you will work directly with the founders to define, build, and scale the product from its core, applying LLMs and multimodal models to create technology that feels alive and human.

What you will be doing

  • Building and scaling multimodal AI systems that integrate LLMs, speech, and visual components
  • Designing and developing internal developer tools to accelerate experimentation
  • Working across Python to connect backend model serving with interactive frontends
  • Shaping infrastructure, architecture, and product direction from the earliest stage

What we are looking for

  • Strong background in Python
  • Experience with LLMs, embeddings, vector databases, or related AI frameworks
  • Startup mindset with experience as an early hire, founder, or technical lead
  • Excited by the intersection of language, voice, and human machine interaction
  • Ideally a background in ROS, ROS2, Streaming, or Real Time Systems
  • Why join

  • Meaningful early equity in a company
  • The chance to shape both product and culture from the ground up
  • If you are curious about building AI that feels as well as thinks, I would love to hear from you.

    To apply or learn more : message Jake Denman at Breakthrough Talent .

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