Speak
Engineering Manager
San Francisco
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 102 days ago
Machine LearningLLMsAI OrchestrationLeadershipMentoring
About the role
- This is an extraordinary moment to join us: we're in the middle of a fundamental agentic shift in software development, and are embracing the change https://www.speak.com/blog/agentic-engineering.
- The technical surface area is deep, spanning custom ML models, voice agent platforms, LLM tooling, and production infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Collaborating closely and effectively with partner functions like Product/Design/many more to execute effectively in the AI era
- Building and maintaining a healthy, high-performing team culture
Requirements
- 8+ years of IC software engineering experience on fast-paced, high performance teams
- 4+ years of direct team management experience
- Track record of driving org-wide developer productivity or tooling initiatives
Company info
- Our mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language.
- Learning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn't been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.
- Speak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world's leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.
- Learning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities.
- Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn't been meaningfully improved in decades.
- Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons.
- The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages.
- Speak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages.
- Speak is one of the world's leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.
- we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets.
- You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.
This listing is sourced directly from Speak's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.